Manhattan

Some subway station benches in NYC are being replaced by a new contraption: leaning bars. The new features have popping up on some subway platforms. The MTA says it will save money, but is it also an effort to keep homeless people from sleeping on benches? NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

There are new additions at the West 4th Street-Washington Square subway station — and not all riders are leaning into the pilot program. For those waiting for an A, C or E train, you can stand or you can lean at the Greenwich Village stop. But you won’t be sitting. The MTA has removed the old benches, except for a…

A second Columbia University student involved with last year’s protests has been arrested by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with Homeland Security Investigations, while another had her student visa revoked and self-deported, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday. Columbia University couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. The night before, DHS agents searched the dorm rooms of two...

The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studies department and implements sweeping changes to other campus policies. In a letter sent Thursday night, federal officials said the university must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department…

A government lawyer has asked a federal judge to move the legal fight over the detention of Mahmoud Khalil to either New Jersey or Louisiana. The request was made Wednesday during a hearing in New York City. Khalil is a Columbia University graduate student whom the Trump Administration is trying to deport over his role in pro-Palestinian protests at the...

Tracie Strahan reports.

A Manhattan man was indicted for murder after allegedly killing his step-grandfather and dismembering his body before putting the remains in bags that he dumped in the East River, according to prosecutors.

A high-rise fire on Manhattan’s Upper West Side killed a 41-year-old woman and left a 77-year-old woman in critical condition, authorities said Thursday. Fire officials say a report of fire on the 14th floor of the 15-story building on West 73rd Street, between Amsterdam and Columbus avenues, came in around 3:15 a.m. More than 75 fire and EMS personnel responded….

A woman is dead, another fighting for life, after a fire erupted at a high-rise building on the Upper West Side. Romney Smith reports.

A New York judge is deciding what’s next for Mahmoud Khalil, who helped organize pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University in 2024. Protesters gathered outside federal court demanding his release. Khalil was taken to a detention center in Louisiana and will stay there for now, though his attorneys want him returned to New York. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

A government lawyer has asked a federal judge to move the legal fight over the detention of Mahmoud Khalil to either New Jersey or Louisiana. The request was made Wednesday during a hearing in New York City. Khalil is a Columbia University graduate student whom the Trump Administration is trying to deport over his role in pro-Palestinian protests at the...

Every dog has its day, and on the Upper East Side, it was a different kind of dog having its day. On Tuesday, a coyote walked into a parking garage (no, that’s not the setup to a joke), then parked itself between a Porsche and Mercedes Benz. The wild canine strolled right by Charles Toogood, who works at the...

A midtown advocacy group has grand plans the reimagine Penn Station and the surrounding area to bring back the grandeur it once enjoyed 60 years ago. The group said their plans are cheaper than what the city is planning. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

A coyote has been known to make his home inside Central Park, but on Tuesday, it decided to explore the city. The wild canine wandered into a parking garage on the Upper East Side, surprising the people working there. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

New York University has a chance to do something that’s never been done before in Division III: have both their men’s and women’s basketball team win a national championship in the same year. They have a great shot at history, with both squads ranked top in the nation. NBC New York’s Bruce Beck reports. 

The team spent three years developing the plan for a new Penn Station with a major focus: moving Madison Square Garden one block east, from Eighth Avenue to Seventh Avenue.

An architect who transformed an abandoned railway into New York City’s popular High Line park has died. Ricardo Scofidio was 89 and was among the first architects to win a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” His firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, says he died Thursday. Founded by Scofidio and wife Elizabeth Diller, the New York-based studio has brought an avant-garde art...

Lencia Kebede, a first-generation Ethiopian American from Los Angeles, spent five years touring with “Hamilton,” most recently in the role of Angelica Schuyler.

A crew nicknamed the “Bentley Bandits” target luxury vehicles by threatening the victims at gunpoint, according to the NYPD. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

The “Bentley Bandits,” a group of armed robbers in Manhattan, earned their nickname from the first car they targeted. They just don’t always know how to drive the vehicle away, apparently