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The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with an assault on a southbound Number 6 train near 51st Street Station. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice  January 28, 2025  Follow @x MANHATTAN - Cops are looking for a man wearing pajama bottoms who is accused of smashing a subway rider in the face with a wooden board inside a Number 6 train.  At around 1 pm on January 26, a 48-year-old male was riding a southbound Number 6 train. As the train approached the 51st Street station a man approached him. Without saying a word, the man swung a piece of wood he had in his hand and struck the straphanger in the face. The blow broke one of the victim’s teeth.  At the station, the attacker fled the train and ran off in an unknown direction.  The victim refused medical treatment at the scene.  The NYPD released surveillance video from inside the subway car.  ...

  Tax rebates and heavy spending define spending proposals unveiled as Trump and Republican-controlled Congress prepare likely federal cuts to social programs.  This article originally appeared in The City. By  Greg David Follow @x NEW YORK - Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul have announced budget proposals for the coming year that are remarkably similar. They both used unexpectedly strong revenues to increase spending and avoid cuts to popular programs. They touted a series of steps — especially income tax cuts — to convince voters they would do something about the high cost of living in New York. And they are both taking a big gamble that they will be able to get through the next year without their plans being blown apart by President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress, who are widely expected to slash federal aid to states and cities and social safety net programs as they take control of the federal budget. B...

  Jumping into the Democratic primary, running as an independent, switching parties or going with a third party all have their own requirements This article originally appeared in The City. By  Rachel Holliday Smith NEW YORK - In a typical New York City election year, the mayoral race is effectively over by the June primary — when the Democratic nominee is chosen, essentially anointing the mayor-elect in this deep blue city. But 2025 is hardly a typical political season. Mayor Eric Adams, once a registered Republican, has hinted at switching parties for his reelection while aligning himself with President-elect Donald Trump. And a big name in New York politics, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is making moves to join the race, but is mum on how or when. There are a lot of unknowns heading into 2025, but we know this for sure: The roadmap for when candidates must legally get on the ballot, and how they can jump into the race as an ind...

  Engineering proposals on tunneling and structural shell work are due by March 5 and a contract is expected to be awarded by the third quarter of this year.  This article originally appeared in The City. By  Jose Martinez Follow @x NEW YORK - The launch of congestion pricing has put the MTA’s plan to stretch the Second Avenue Subway from the Upper East Side to Harlem one stop closer to its final destination. Days before the Jan. 5 start of the vehicle-tolling initiative that is looked to as a major source of funding for the $7.1 billion expansion project, the MTA issued a request for proposals from firms that can design, engineer and build the extension of the Q line between 96th and 125th streets. “The Second Avenue Subway is one of the most important mass transit projects in the nation and today it’s driving forward, thanks to congestion pricing,” Jamie Torres-Springer, president of the MTA’s construction divisio...

  Alongside grand ambitions to build 100,000 new places to live just in Manhattan, the mayor said he also wants to expand various programs for youth. This article originally appeared in The City. By  Katie Honan NEW YORK - Mayor Eric Adams presented his fourth and possibly final State of the City address Thursday in Harlem, sharing a vision — but scant details on how — to make it easier to raise a family in the five boroughs.  As he walked out on stage at the Apollo Theater, the mayor rubbed the famous Tree of Hope stump for good luck , then rattled off a slew of ideas from building more housing to helping kids learn to swim.  “Extreme costs are forcing too many people, especially working class families, to make hard choices: between groceries or child care, medicine or clothing, making the rent or moving out,” Adams said, as he acknowledged the city’s issues.  Adams, who’s been in office for three years, ...

-File Photo This article originally appeared in NewYork-Presbyterian’s Health Matters. By Amanda Torres  Manhattan Voice  January 7, 2025 NEW YORK - Recent outbreaks of avian influenza in poultry and dairy cows have drawn attention to the disease commonly known as bird flu. California declared a state of emergency after discovering the virus in 645 herds of dairy cattle. Bird flu typically spreads among wild birds and other animals like dairy cows and domestic poultry, but this year, more than 60 people across the United States have been infected. In December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the first severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the United States when a person in Louisiana was hospitalized after being exposed to infected birds in backyard flocks.  California, Colorado, and Washington have also had confirmed human cases, and a person in Missouri was the first to be diagnosed with the bird flu without any known...