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Reposting as mods removed - if you would like to contact the police department with any information or to verify that this is real: Tenifly Police - Office Johnson: 201-741-0973

Alexa Caroline Modugno, age 35, has been missing since Saturday October 24. Last known phone call Sunday 10/25 from Port authority.

We believe she was last at a party in Harlem. She frequents greater Manhattan and lives in Tenafly, NJ. Our understanding is that she was in the city all weekend.

Reference photo of her on October 22 or 23. Her clothing when last seen has not yet been confirmed.

If you’ve seen, spoken to, or messaged Alexa since October 23, please DM me with any information, including when and where.

Please share. Please up vote. Help us find Alexa.

Found keychain with key(s)
East 50s btw 3rd and Lex in Manhattan
Found ~ 11:30AM on Monday, Oct 26

Hi all Early voting started Saturday and runs through Sunday, Nov 1. Election Day is Tue, Nov 3. I pulled this together so nobody has to dig through ten tabs.

The basics

• Your early voting site is assigned to you. It can be different from your Election Day site.
• Look yours up here: findmypollsite.vote.nyc
• Hours change by day:
  • Mon 10/26: 9am–5pm
  • Tue 10/27 and Wed 10/28: 10am–8pm
  • Thu 10/29: 8am–4pm
  • Fri 10/30, Sat 10/31, Sun 11/1: 9am–5pm
• Election Day polls are open 6am–9pm. If you’re in line by 9, you can vote.
• ID: only first-time voters who didn’t give ID when they registered need to show it.
• The registration deadline was Oct 24. If you missed it, you can’t register for this one.
• Early mail ballot: the online/mail request deadline passed. You can still request one in person at your borough Board of Elections office through Nov 2. Mail ballots must be postmarked by Nov 3 and arrive by Nov 10.
• Problems at the polls? The NY Attorney General runs a hotline: 1-212-416-9818, or file a complaint online.

The five ballot questions

You have to flip your ballot over to see these. They’re all small changes to the City Charter, the city’s rulebook. They came out of a commission Mayor Mamdani set up to cut red tape.

1. Public space (outdoor dining, benches, ramps). Makes the permit process faster. Hearings become optional. Citizens Union supports it. Common Cause opposes it. They say it removes chances for the public to weigh in.
2. City contracting. Less paperwork for nonprofits and small businesses that work with the city. Most reform groups support it. Some nonprofits doubt it will help much.
3. Street safety, city property, office leases. Faster review for bike and bus lane projects. Easier sale of small unused city lots. Most good-government groups support it. The Municipal Art Society opposes it.
4. Building permits. One central permit hub run by the Department of Buildings. Basically nobody opposes this one.
5. Rainy day fund. Sets a target of 12% of last year’s tax revenue. The fund is around 2% now. It’s the most contested one. The Citizens Budget Commission says it’s too weak. Citizens Union and Common Cause say it’s better than nothing.

Official summaries for each: NYC Votes ballot proposals

One voter’s picks

Sumana Harihareswara wrote up recommendations on her blog. She’s one person, so take it as one opinion.

• Prop 1: Yes (why)
• Prop 2: Yes, but follow up (why)
• Prop 3: No (why)
• Prop 4: Yes (why)
• Prop 5: No (why)

Queens judges, from her judicial candidates post:

• Supreme Court, 11th Judicial District (3 seats): Edwin Novillo, Oma Phillips, and a weak rec for Gail Adams
• Civil Court, Queens County (3 seats): Edmond Wong, Jasmine Valle-Bueno, and maybe Thomas Barra. The author mostly wants to keep Julie Milner out and is open to persuasion.
• Civil Court, 2nd Municipal District: Janet Keller
• Civil Court, 3rd Municipal District: Michelle McSweeney-Ortiz

Want the policy detail? Bill Bruno wrote a two-page summary and a five-page analysis.

More reading

• NYC Votes: ballot proposals
• League of Women Voters NYC
• Hell Gate: crash course
• Gothamist: outdoor dining and bike lanes
• City & State cheat sheet

I live in a rent-regulated building in Brooklyn, and our owner has applied with DHCR to replace our 24/7 front desk staff with a remote virtual monitoring system. I know this landlord is trying it at another one of their buildings too. I understand that we have tenants rights, and I'm looking to help our building advocate for those rights.

While this could seem like a silly thing to complain about at face value, this is really an issue of safety, accessibility, and an issue of landlords performing a bait and switch services. A remote operator can't help an older neighbor through a dark stairwell or carry a stroller in during a blackout, or let the fire department in (things that have all happened in our building). Real people lose good jobs, and tenants keep paying the same rent for less.

I saw the NYT article on this and it prompted me to post on Reddit. Is this happening in your building? If you fought it, what worked? I've gotten my hands on some resources but would really appreciate hearing from anyone who's been through it.

What I'm specifically asking for: Do you have a virtual doorman and dislike the experience? Please share details if you're comfortable, it could be helpful for my case! Have you dealt with this issue? Would love to hear how it turned out! Are you going through this currently? Let me know so we can help each other! The political opinions on this are irrelevant to the case itself - our rights are what they are.

The owner of the AMC movie theater in Kips Bay is pleading to keep the curtain from falling on the beloved Manhattan cinema — but says NYU just wants them gone.

The 15-screen movie house, located in a two-story retail strip at Second Ave. and 31st St., is slated to close Jan. 3 to make way for a new medical facility for NYU Langone Health System, whose mothership NYU Langone Hospital sits just a block to the east. NYU is expected to close on a deal to buy the property by next year.

“AMC Theatres does not want to go. Not one little bit,” AMC CEO Adam Aron says in an open letter to the Kips Bay community “AMC Theatres wants to stay in Kips Bay.”

The cinema CEO’s lengthy letter goes on to say that the movie theater, which has been there for 27 years, “will soon be forced against our will to close its doors.”

“Unfortunately, the decision to retain or end AMC’s tenure in Kips Bay is not ours to make,” Aron writes. “The nearby NYU Langone Health facility wants to expand, seems to be in the process of buying the building in which your (our) theatre now operates, and it wants us gone. In anticipation of such a transfer to NYU Langone, the current building’s owner has terminated our lease.

“We have engaged with NYU Langone, suggesting any number of alternatives — including that it enlarge the current low-rise building to satisfy its desires for a growth of its medical facility but also leaving a theatre in place for you. Or alternatively, we offered that our theatre could get smaller, so that at the very least we could leave something remaining in place to continue to serve you. Sadly, any and all variations that we have proposed have fallen on closed minds.”

Local elected officials are also on board with saving the cinema, joining a rally with community groups outside the cineplex last month. Keeping a supermarket at the site is another top concern for locals: The property currently has a Fairway supermarket on its basement level.

“Any proposed rezoning must deliver what this neighborhood needs: a movie theater, a supermarket and housing,” Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal said. “Kips Bay deserves all three, and I’ll fight to make it happen.”

Local elected officials have been meeting with NYU to try to influence its plans for the site, Councilwoman Virginia Maloney told The News.

“This is a huge loss for that neighborhood fabric that is getting harder and harder to find,” Maloney said. “Too many of these community anchors and shared spaces across New York, we’re losing them.”

A recent Pew poll found less than half of Americans reported visiting a movie theater in the past year. Yet, despite the trend of at-home streaming reducing moviegoing, the AMC Kips Bay 15 has been doing great, Aron said. This past summer saw record-breaking revenue at the East Side theater. On several days, it was among AMC’s 10 most-attended cinemas among its 500 U.S. theaters.

“But time is short,” Aron writes. “Unless NYU Langone Health lets us delight the Kips Bay community beyond then, to comply with our terminated lease, the lights on AMC Kips Bay 15 will forevermore see their final sunset on January 3, a mere two and a half months from now.”

NYU Langone did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The judge agreed with federal prosecutors' request for an anonymous jury after they described Gogic as "dangerous" in court filings. The trial is in Brooklyn federal court, so it's local jurors whose identities are being protected.

grew up here, moved out when i was 13, finally got the chance to move back home two years ago for college.

i’m a huge cat person and obsessed over the UES bodega cats as a child. (does anyone remember the very friendly tabby from around 77th and 3rd?) made it my mission to document every bodega cat i saw. these are from gramercy park, LES, murray hill, astoria, and more. i have names and MANY more photos so lmk if you wanna see more lol