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Democrats Erik Bottcher (l.) and Keith Powers have been victorious in particular elections for 2 vacant state legislative seats on Tuesday. Photographs by way of NYC Council Media Unit and Lloyd Mitchell Democrats simply swept two particular elections on Tuesday for a pair of state legislative seats protecting elements of Manhattan. Metropolis Council Member Erik Bottcher, the co-chair of the Council’s LGBTQIA+ Caucus, simply gained the Feb. 3 particular election to interchange Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal within the state Senate, defeating Republican Charlotte Friedman by a large margin, based on unofficial outcomes. In the meantime, Bottcher’s former Metropolis Council…

Police shot and injured a knife-wielding man in Queens on Jan. 25, 2026. Picture by Dean Moses Mayor Zohran Mamdani made making a Division of Neighborhood Security to reply to psychological well being crises a key promise in his profitable marketing campaign final 12 months. Incidents comparable to final week’s police-involved capturing in Queens that left a 22-year-old man in a psychological well being disaster critically wounded exhibit that Mamdani can’t afford to defer on the division’s creation. The household of Jabez Chakraborty, who stays hospitalized in vital situation after the Jan. 25 incident, is demanding to know the way…