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An independent commission charged by a judge to redraw the boundaries of New York's 11th Congressional District has paused its work due to a pending appeal of the issue, the group's staff told THE CITY. That means it's unlikely the bipartisan group, the Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC), will meet the deadline of this Friday previously set by a judge for convening and redrawing the congressional map.

As Winter Storm Fern swept across the United States in late January 2026, bringing ice, snow and freezing temperatures, it left more than a million people without power, mostly in the Southeast.

National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell likely didn't have the sensibilities of the U.S. president in mind when the choice of Bad Bunny was made. One of the top artists in the world, Bad Bunny performs primarily in Spanish and has been critical of immigration enforcement, which factored into the backlash in some conservative circles to the choice. Bad Bunny's anti-ICE comments at this year's Grammy Awards will have only stoked the ire of some conservatives.

Given that the same sanitation workers who pick up trash have been clearing the foot of snow and ice that fell last Sunday, we are about one day behind on collection, and we ask for patience from New Yorkers while we catch up,

The U.S. is at real risk of losing its measles elimination status for the first time in 25 years - now is the time to make sure you and your family are vaccinated,

The infrastructure beneath Brooklyn's snow-packed streets has been struggling against an unforeseen adversary: the very salt meant to protect its surfaces. As Gothamis t reports, there are about 2,000 Brooklyn residents grappling with a formidable power outage, prominently in neighborhoods like Boerum Hill, Park Slope, and Gowanus, a logistical snare that has been exacerbated by the 116 million pounds of salt distributed citywide to combat the snow that is now corroding underground power cables and preventing Con Edison's repairs.

GOWANUS - POLICE ARE SEEKING an unidentified gunman who at around 10 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 28, approached a 27-year-old man at the intersection of Sackett Street and 3rd Avenue and engaged him in a conversation, before drawing a gun and firing it at him. The victim was struck in the right leg and transported to a nearby hospital in stable condition.

Before the pandemic, some of the most serious violent and disruptive incident categories in schools (assault, sexual offenses and weapons possession) experienced gradually declining rates over three academic years spanning 2017-2020, although rates for New York City schools were notably higher. After in-person learning resumed, the incident rates remained much lower than in the pre-pandemic years. The categories of assault, sexual offense and weapons possession cases each declined to under 1% per thousand students.

About half of the companies that deliver home heating oil to New Yorkers failed at least one inspection of truck gauges meant to ensure residents get the fuel they pay for, an analysis of records shows. More than 330,000 households in New York City - primarily in The Bronx and Manhattan - rely on home fuel oil to heat their homes during the winter. To make sure customers are not shortchanged, each year the New York Department of Consumer and Worker Protection inspects the gauges of all delivery trucks. Since mid-2023, inspectors have flunked the gauges on one in every 10 trucks they checked.

The pioneer choir, which has expanded over more than five decades from a small nine-member group into a major ethnically-diverse ensemble, is bringing home the 2026 Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album for "I Will Not Be Moved: Live with The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir." The choir was presented with the prize during the 68th Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony, held in Los Angeles.

On a below-freezing Saturday, with mounds of snow still clinging to Brooklyn sidewalks, 30 groups of costumed revelers gathered behind their homemade carts, dressed to the nines in satire and spectacle. As they would their way through Bushwick, Williamsburg and into Ridgewood, Queens, passersby stopped to take photos, cheer them on and briefly join the chaos. For longtime fans, it was a familiar sight: the 23rd annual Idiotarod race.

QUEENS - Blanca Hernandez Morales was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court to 35 years for sex trafficking minors using force, fraud and coercion, among other crimes. In addition to the term of imprisonment, United States District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall ordered Hernandez Morales to pay restitution of $179,300. Hernandez Morales was the last of four co-defendants who went to trial in October 2023 on various charges, including sex trafficking, to be sentenced.

A PARTY BOAT that lost power on the East River last fall and slammed into the waterfront at Domino Park caused an estimated $40,000 in damage, according to sources and documents reviewed by the New York Post . The incident occurred Oct. 17, when the Sir Winston, operated by R and D Cruise Lines Inc., drifted into the park's bulkheads and guardrails after losing power.

GREENPOINT - THE TIDELAND INSTITUTE'S Shoofly tugboat, a restored 1941 steel-hulled vessel usually used for the nonprofit's maritime education and arts programs, has been helping to break ice in the Newtown Creek as the city shivers through a potentially record-setting stretch of subzero days, The City reports. Three Coast Guard tugboats based in New Jersey have been occupied in keeping the harbor and the Hudson River clear to make sure ship traffic can pass.

The remains of a woman were found stuffed inside a black plastic bag in the basement of a Brooklyn building Sunday, police and law-enforcement sources said. Cops responded to a 911 call for an unconscious person at The Borinquen Public Houses at 330 Bushwick Avenue on the border of Williamsburg and Bushwick at 9:38 a.m., police said. In the basement of the NYCHA apartment building, officers found the remains of an adult woman in a black plastic bag, the sources and cops said.

Nearly 2,000 Brooklyn residents are still without power as crews have been working to fix the outage since Saturday. Neighbors in Park Slope spent a second night without heat after manhole fires erupted. Con Edison worked through Sunday night, attempting to restore power. Officials said melting snow mixed with road salt made contact with underground electrical equipment, leading to the outages.

A woman's remains were found inside a black plastic bag in the basement of a Brooklyn apartment building, police and sources said Sunday. Officers responding to a 911 call made the grisly discovery around 9:38 a.m. in the building at the corner of Bushwick Ave. and Seigel St. in East Williamsburg, according to police. Cops were first alerted to the remains by a NYCHA employee, according to PIX11.

Reps from real estate titan Two Trees Management - which opened the $50 million public park in 2018 as part of its mixed-use rental project in Williamsburg paying tribute to the old Domino Sugar Plant that once operated there - fired off letters Friday to federal, state, and city agencies urging they investigate the Oct. 17 incident involving the Sir Winston vessel.

The complimentary resolution adopted by the Common Council at the close of the year to Hon. Ripley Ropes has been engrossed by W. V. Peacon, of this city, and is now on exhibition in the Common Council Chamber. It will be exhibited later in the show windows of McNeuman's store, 413 Fulton street. The work stands in its frame four and a half feet by three feet. The frame is ebony and gold, engraved and gilded.

New York City's most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents.

BROOKLYN ORG IS PROVIDING NEARLY HALF A MILLION DOLLARS through its Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn Campaign to organizations that bolster family stability, immigrant and older adult services, legal rights, and neighborhood resilience. The Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn Campaign will fund 12 non-profits around the borough as part of its first round of grants . Each organization is receiving $40,000 in general operating support grants to strengthen the essential services they provide to Brooklyn communities, which have been impacted by federal policy changes over the past year.

In 1798, Thomas Malthus looked at deer and saw doom. In nature, he noted, unchecked populations grow until they consume everything: deer overgraze the forest, starve, die off. He believed humans would follow the same curve, and he predicted the population would always outpace food supply, triggering famine, war and collapse. The math was clean - the logic brutal - and for a while, it all seemed inevitable. Except it never happened. Instead of famine, we got fertilizers and ever-growing crop yields.

I remember being a law clerk, and my mentor, Judge Marsha Steinhardt, was one of the first people to put this together,

The Nets spent most of Friday night looking like a team that actually learned something from Wednesday's mess at Madison Square Garden. And then, when the game demanded the smallest details, Brooklyn let it slip anyway. That's the brutal part of their 130-126 double-overtime loss to the Boston Celtics at Barclays Center. The Nets looked like they'd turned a page in stretches, but you're not fixing everything overnight, and the same late-game issues that have haunted them all season popped back up when it mattered most.