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Gov. Kathy Hochul transferred the Cornell fraternity rape investigation to Attorney General Letitia James after saying she had lost faith in the prosecutors overseeing it. The move places the state attorney general in charge of reviewing the case.
10:49 PMBBC
Allegations that Cornell students sexually assaulted an impaired woman have renewed efforts by victims and New York lawmakers to amend the state's rape law. The debate centers on how the law defines consent when a person is intoxicated.
11:00 PMNYT New YorkStudents and others are questioning Cornell's response after prosecutors reopened an investigation into a woman's allegation that she was raped at a fraternity house in 2024. None of the accused men have been charged, and all have denied wrongdoing.
11:00 PMNYT New York
More than 1,000 pages of records detail how a woman identified as Jane Doe came to understand an encounter at a Cornell fraternity party as a crime. The documents also raise questions about how the allegations were handled.
7:37 PMNYT New York
Cornell plans to hire outside lawyers to investigate its handling of a woman's 2024 claim that she was assaulted by a group of students. The university and law enforcement officials face growing pressure to explain how they responded to her initial allegations.
8:53 AMNYT New York
A federal judge in New York indefinitely barred ICE from arresting people at immigration courthouses. The judge ruled that a Trump administration policy lifting restrictions on courthouse arrests violated administrative procedure law.
5:47 PMGothamist
More than $600 million in congressionally approved federal funds is coming to New York City after rental-voucher funding began running short years earlier than expected. The money is intended to keep thousands of affected New Yorkers housed.
7:04 PMThe City
An attorney challenging New York City's rent freeze released emails and text messages involving Mamdani administration officials and the Rent Guidelines Board. The lawyer is also asking a judge to require officials to participate in interviews after the court ordered their correspondence disclosed.
4:40 PMGothamist
New York City is considering a temporary elevated highway over the Brooklyn Bridge to divert traffic while crews rebuild the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway's triple-cantilever structure. New renderings depict a bridge-like roadway built above the existing bridge.
3:53 PMGothamistMayor Zohran Mamdani designated 12 parts of New York City where affordable housing projects can receive expedited approval, including the Upper West Side and Upper East Side.
3:43 PMBloomberg MarketsSummary
Gov. Kathy Hochul transferred the Cornell fraternity rape investigation to Attorney General Letitia James after saying she had lost faith in the prosecutors overseeing it. The move places the state attorney general in charge of reviewing the case.
Hochul's loss of confidence is the decisive shift, making the investigation a state-level matter rather
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A governor's decision to displace local oversight is an unusual escalation that could reshape both the investigation and public confidence in its outcome.
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Allegations that Cornell students sexually assaulted an impaired woman have renewed efforts by victims and New York lawmakers to amend the state's rape law. The debate centers on how the law defines consent when a person is intoxicated.
The Cornell case has shifted the dispute from one prosecution to the legal standard governing
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New York may revise a core consent standard because existing law is seen by victims and lawmakers as failing in intoxication cases.
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Students and others are questioning Cornell's response after prosecutors reopened an investigation into a woman's allegation that she was raped at a fraternity house in 2024. None of the accused men have been charged, and all have denied wrongdoing.
The reopening has made Cornell's institutional decisions part of the story alongside the criminal investigation.
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The case tests whether a university can maintain trust while a serious allegation remains unresolved and criminal charges have not been filed.
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More than 1,000 pages of records detail how a woman identified as Jane Doe came to understand an encounter at a Cornell fraternity party as a crime. The documents also raise questions about how the allegations were handled.
The records shift attention from the alleged encounter alone to the institutional process that followed,
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The documents could influence both accountability for the alleged assault and scrutiny of how universities respond to sexual violence claims.
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Cornell plans to hire outside lawyers to investigate its handling of a woman's 2024 claim that she was assaulted by a group of students. The university and law enforcement officials face growing pressure to explain how they responded to her initial allegations.
Cornell's decision signals that its internal handling of the claim has become a separate accountability
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The investigation could determine whether Cornell and officials mishandled a serious allegation and whether the university must change how it responds to sexual-assault claims.
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A federal judge in New York indefinitely barred ICE from arresting people at immigration courthouses. The judge ruled that a Trump administration policy lifting restrictions on courthouse arrests violated administrative procedure law.
The ruling removes a major source of arrest risk for immigrants attending hearings and limits
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Immigrants can attend court with greater protection, while the administration faces a constraint on courthouse enforcement policy.
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More than $600 million in congressionally approved federal funds is coming to New York City after rental-voucher funding began running short years earlier than expected. The money is intended to keep thousands of affected New Yorkers housed.
The federal allocation averts an immediate housing crisis, but it also exposes the consequences of
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Federal money can prevent thousands of evictions, but it does not resolve the longer-term reliability of housing-voucher funding.
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An attorney challenging New York City's rent freeze released emails and text messages involving Mamdani administration officials and the Rent Guidelines Board. The lawyer is also asking a judge to require officials to participate in interviews after the court ordered their correspondence disclosed.
The case is moving from a policy dispute toward scrutiny of how the rent freeze
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The litigation could determine whether the rent freeze survives and expose the decision-making process behind a major housing policy.
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New York City is considering a temporary elevated highway over the Brooklyn Bridge to divert traffic while crews rebuild the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway's triple-cantilever structure. New renderings depict a bridge-like roadway built above the existing bridge.
The proposal prioritizes keeping a critical traffic route open while the BQE undergoes major reconstruction,
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The decision will shape traffic, construction impacts and long-term maintenance around the Brooklyn Bridge and BQE.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani designated 12 parts of New York City where affordable housing projects can receive expedited approval, including the Upper West Side and Upper East Side.
The fast-track plan extends affordable housing pressure into some of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods, rather
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The policy tests whether New York can add affordable housing in high-cost neighborhoods with strong political and community resistance.
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A curated list of other prominent stories from this day.
Joseph LoGiudice, founder of Liberation Psychotherapy, was charged with rape after patients accused him of sexual abuse. He is the second therapist at the LGBTQ-focused practice to face such allegations.
7:48 PMGothamist
New York City’s click-to-cancel rule took effect Thursday, making it the first municipal regulation of its kind in the country. The rule gives the city new authority to pursue businesses that make subscription cancellations difficult.
5:54 PMPYMNTS
Two City Council members entered a Queens shelter for homeless veterans despite staff objections and demanded an inspection. They are pressing the Mamdani administration to explain why it rejected federal funding for beds at the facility.
5:43 PMThe City
Malayan Banking Berhad, known as Maybank, leased 8,629 square feet across the 24th floor at 575 Madison Avenue. A concierge medical service also signed a lease, bringing the two deals to more than 14,100 square feet of Midtown office space.
4:31 PMHousing Wire
Joyland Management sold the 157,347-square-foot South Shore Commons shopping and dining center on Staten Island for $57 million. Phillips Edison & Company, a real estate investment trust, acquired the property for about $362 per square foot.
3:42 PMHousing Wire
Bank of India signed a 20-year lease for 14,630 square feet at 1212 Avenue of the Americas, taking the entire 12th floor and relocating from 277 Park Avenue. Global investor IQ-EQ also signed a lease at the Midtown office tower.
12:26 PMHousing Wire
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius signed a 205,000-square-foot lease at Mitsui Fudosan America’s 1251 Avenue of the Americas as it relocates its New York offices. The deal was among the major transactions recorded in Manhattan during the third quarter of 2026.
12:01 PMHousing Wire
New York and Wyoming agreed to coordinate oversight of companies involved in virtual currency and digital asset activities in their states. Their financial regulators formalized the cooperation through a memorandum of understanding.
11:46 AMPYMNTS
Manhattan office leasing reached 10.06 million square feet in the third quarter of 2026, exceeding both the five-year and 10-year quarterly averages despite a modest decline in the number of new deals. Available office supply fell to its lowest level since 2020, with large leases driving activity.
11:14 AMHousing WireThe New York Power Authority will own a 51% stake in the 240-megawatt Rich Road Solar project alongside EDF. It is NYPA's first renewable energy project developed through a public-private partnership.
9:57 AMUtility Dive
Elderly artists living in a historic SoHo loft building have spent six years without access to its only elevator after their landlord barred its use in 2019. One resident, who suffered a stroke and has difficulty walking, now rarely leaves the fourth-floor apartment while efforts to secure city intervention continue.
5:00 AMThe CitySummary
Joseph LoGiudice, founder of Liberation Psychotherapy, was charged with rape after patients accused him of sexual abuse. He is the second therapist at the LGBTQ-focused practice to face such allegations.
The allegations now extend beyond one clinician and raise questions about safeguards at the practice.
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The case puts patient safety and institutional oversight at an LGBTQ mental-health provider under scrutiny.
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New York City’s click-to-cancel rule took effect Thursday, making it the first municipal regulation of its kind in the country. The rule gives the city new authority to pursue businesses that make subscription cancellations difficult.
The rule shifts enforcement power toward consumers by requiring a simpler path out of recurring
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The city is turning subscription cancellation into a local consumer-protection enforcement issue.
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Two City Council members entered a Queens shelter for homeless veterans despite staff objections and demanded an inspection. They are pressing the Mamdani administration to explain why it rejected federal funding for beds at the facility.
The confrontation turns a funding dispute into a direct test of the city’s shelter oversight
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The dispute could determine whether New York preserves available federal shelter resources and how aggressively the Council checks the mayor’s administration.
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Malayan Banking Berhad, known as Maybank, leased 8,629 square feet across the 24th floor at 575 Madison Avenue. A concierge medical service also signed a lease, bringing the two deals to more than 14,100 square feet of Midtown office space.
The leases provide a concrete sign of demand for well-located Midtown space from both international
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The deals show where Midtown office demand remains resilient as landlords compete for tenants.
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Joyland Management sold the 157,347-square-foot South Shore Commons shopping and dining center on Staten Island for $57 million. Phillips Edison & Company, a real estate investment trust, acquired the property for about $362 per square foot.
The sale puts a second ownership change in four years behind a retail center that
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The transaction signals continued investor interest in well-performing suburban-style retail centers in New York's outer boroughs.
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Bank of India signed a 20-year lease for 14,630 square feet at 1212 Avenue of the Americas, taking the entire 12th floor and relocating from 277 Park Avenue. Global investor IQ-EQ also signed a lease at the Midtown office tower.
The long-term commitment gives the building a stable anchor tenant and shows that some financial
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Long leases from financial firms provide rare stability in a Manhattan office market still defined by selective demand.
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Morgan, Lewis & Bockius signed a 205,000-square-foot lease at Mitsui Fudosan America’s 1251 Avenue of the Americas as it relocates its New York offices. The deal was among the major transactions recorded in Manhattan during the third quarter of 2026.
The lease shows that large law firms continue to drive demand for premium Manhattan office
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Large leases by established firms are helping pull Manhattan’s office market toward recovery, but primarily at top-tier properties.
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New York and Wyoming agreed to coordinate oversight of companies involved in virtual currency and digital asset activities in their states. Their financial regulators formalized the cooperation through a memorandum of understanding.
The agreement creates a channel for regulators to share information and reduce gaps between two
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Closer state supervision could raise compliance standards for crypto firms operating across state lines.
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Manhattan office leasing reached 10.06 million square feet in the third quarter of 2026, exceeding both the five-year and 10-year quarterly averages despite a modest decline in the number of new deals. Available office supply fell to its lowest level since 2020, with large leases driving activity.
The decisive shift is tighter availability alongside above-average leasing, suggesting that demand is absorbing space
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Falling availability strengthens landlords’ position and raises the stakes for tenants seeking large blocks of high-quality Manhattan space.
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The New York Power Authority will own a 51% stake in the 240-megawatt Rich Road Solar project alongside EDF. It is NYPA's first renewable energy project developed through a public-private partnership.
The ownership structure gives the state a direct financial and strategic role in developing utility-scale
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The project could establish a model for NYPA to expand renewable generation while retaining public control over major assets.
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Elderly artists living in a historic SoHo loft building have spent six years without access to its only elevator after their landlord barred its use in 2019. One resident, who suffered a stroke and has difficulty walking, now rarely leaves the fourth-floor apartment while efforts to secure city intervention continue.
Six years without a functioning elevator has turned a building-maintenance dispute into a sustained accessibility
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A broken or withheld elevator can convert an otherwise legal home into an inaccessible one, with enforcement delays carrying the real cost.
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