Happy Wednesday! You know it. I know it. All of the city knows it. So we might as well acknowledge it: The temperature is low in New York.
Things aren’t looking much warmer heading into the weekend. Tomorrow will bring a brief respite with highs around 40℉ before plummeting again into the teens and mid-20s, with lows in the single digits. What’s more, “confidence has increased” among meteorologists that a major winter storm will hit the city this Sunday, bringing frigid temperatures and up to six inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service.
Looks like it’s going to stay as cold as the Knicks’ jump shooting for at least another week.
Yesterday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani reiterated campaign calls to abolish ICE in an interview on ABC’s “The View,” saying the agency is acting callously and lawlessly.
Governor Kathy Hochul revealed her 2027 budget for New York State.
It includes funds to increase NYPD presence in subways and houses of worship, and $352 million set aside for gun violence prevention funding.
It also includes a proposed $39.3 billion investment in school aid – the highest level in state history.
To bolster NY’s economy against an uncertain national backdrop, Hochul set aside $14.6 billion in reserve funds.
An affordable housing lottery opened for a six-story residential building at 584 Gates Ave., offering nine rent-stabilized apartments for households earning $135,360 to $189,540.
The family of a 13-year-old girl who jumped to her death from the Brooklyn Bridge in January 2023 sued the City of New York, alleging systemic failures by the Administration for Children’s Services led to her suicide.
The planned Monitor Point development at Bushwick Inlet received pushback at a Community Board 1 land-use hearing on Tuesday. CB1 has yet to vote on the zoning changes necessary for the project.
The Brooklyn Museum kicks off its popular First Saturdays program for 2026 with “First Saturday: Imitate No One,” honoring Black History Month and the innovative artists who reenvision tradition while building community.
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SYRIA — What growing up in a humanitarian crisis zone looks like: Iraqi Bodor Sultan, 6, who was born at the al-Hol camp, looks for a picture inside the camp in northeastern Syria's Hasakeh province, Syria, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, after the withdrawal of the Syrian Democratic Forces.
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Elliot Williams revisits the 1984 Bernhard Goetz subway shooting in new book
Elliot Williams. Photo: Kyo Morishima
Elliot Williams, a CNN legal analyst and frequent commentator for other outlets, wrote his first book, “Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York’s Explosive ’80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation,” about the 1984 Bernhard Goetz subway shooting.
Williams will be joined by Errol Louis at the Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene on Feb. 11 for a conversation and signing of “Five Bullets.”
“It’s just perfect to have my first New York live event for ‘Five Bullets’ be in Brooklyn. I was born in Maimonides hospital in Borough Park and lived with my parents, grandparents and aunt in a house in Flatbush,” Williams said. “And of course, Brooklyn figures heavily into the events of ‘Five Bullets.’ There’s no better place to start a conversation about a book that is, in a weird way, a love letter to New York.”
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Be a square: The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music will hold an all-ages community square dance this Sunday, Jan. 25, led by caller Sargent Seedoo. The event is open to dancers with all levels of experience and will take place in the conservatory’s Seventh Avenue concert hall. Get ticket information here.
Happy Birthday to Basketball Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon!
On This Day in 1928, the Eagle reported, “The 5-cent fare will stay — at least temporarily — in the readjustment of city transit.”
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