FBI: The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing—and the Investigation That Followed On February 26, 1993—just after noon—an explosion tore through the underground parking garage beneath the World Trade Center, carving a crater nearly 100 feet wide and ripping through multiple levels. Six people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured as smoke and fire…
New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are urging families with kids turning 3 or 4 this year to apply for free 3-K or Pre-K by Friday, February 27, 2026, highlighting that applications are open to eligible families regardless of language or immigration status and are not first-come, first-served—anyone who applies…
On Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, after a major winter storm dropped nearly two feet of snow across New York City, a large crowd gathered in Washington Square Park (Manhattan) for an informal snowball fight. Hundreds of people — mostly young adults and teens — were seen throwing snowballs across the park and streets. The gathering…
After Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s February 23, 2026 blizzard update, reporters pressed him on what New Yorkers cared about most: why the travel ban ended while conditions remained dangerous, whether restrictions could be used in future emergencies, how the city handled homelessness during the storm, and why schools would reopen the next day. The Q&A also…
Ex-EDNY Prosecutor Saritha Komatireddy: “New York Must Restore Law and Order” I came to the United States in the 1980s from the island where I was born. Growing up, I heard stories about my father’s village being taken over by communist rebels. He came here to escape that. And if our city, our state, our…
Mayor Mamdani’s ‘Tin Cup Day’ may have been a bust. Bobby Cuza NY1