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Leonard Greene

Michael Santiago, left, and Michael James. (NYPD)

Victim of NYC racist boot fire attack tells News she needed to stand up to social media trolls

March 1, 2026 at 12:29 p.m.

Cops said Michael Santiago, 31, and Michael James, 33, confronted the Black woman and unleashed a slew of racist insults that were caught on camera and posted online.

People gather in Washington Square Park for a mass snowball fight Monday, Feb. 23, 2026 in Manhattan. (Barry Williams/ New York Daily News)

Greene: Mamdani on wrong side of ‘snowball fight’ with police

February 28, 2026 at 5:12 p.m.

The snowball fight could have been handled better on both sides. This would have been a much nicer story if the cops had been in on it to start, instead...

Mourners attend the funeral of 2-year-old Maliek Morrison at Mother AME Zion Church in Harlem on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (Julian Roberts-Grmela / New York Daily News)

Calls for justice at Harlem funeral of boy, 2, whose dad is accused of beating him to death

February 26, 2026 at 4:51 p.m.

They were still counting his age in months, and for all 32 of them Maliek Morrison was a bright bundle of joy, until he was brutally beaten to death —...

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams (main) and John Davidson. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News; Getty Images)

NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who has Tourette syndrome, reacts to N-word ‘tic’ outburst at BAFTA awards

February 24, 2026 at 9:08 a.m.

The fallout from a Tourette syndrome advocate blurting the N-word during a presentation by two Black actors at a British entertainment awards ceremony should generate more compassion — for both...

Veteran American civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson after being awarded the Legion of Honour by French president at the Elysee Palace in Paris on July 19, 2021. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

GREENE: Even in death, Jesse Jackson urges us to ‘Keep Hope Alive’

February 21, 2026 at 5:07 p.m.

Jesse Jackson will lie in state later this week at his Rainbow PUSH headquarters in Chicago. And, if there is anybody who deserves to lie in state at the U.S....

Argenis de Jesus Baez Pizano (main) is pictured in police custody leaving the NYPD's 44th Precinct stationhouse in the Bronx on Monday, June 13, 2022, after being charged with the murder of NYPD Transit Officer Arianna Reyes-Gomez (inset). (Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily News; Obtained by NYDN)

Family of cop killed in Bronx by estranged husband says 24-year sentence not enough

February 20, 2026 at 6:00 p.m.

A Bronx judge sentenced Argenis Baez to nearly a quarter of a century in jail, but victim Arianna Reyes-Gomez’ family said the punishment doesn’t match the crime.

Children study in the newly opened Hunters Point Library in Long Island City in Queens, NY on Tuesday September 24, 2019. (Go Nakamura/for New York Daily News)

Budget shortfall may close the book on Mamdani’s library funding promise

February 19, 2026 at 8:00 p.m.

After vowing on the campaign trail to give libraries up to 0.5% of the city’s budget, Mayor Mamdani in his preliminary spending plan included a $30 million cut.

Gang members threatened witness’ child as leader was on trial for Bronx murder: feds

February 18, 2026 at 6:34 p.m.

To keep their gang leader boss from being convicted of murder, a pair of his lackeys went on social media to intimidate a witness, threatening to kill his kindergarten son...

NYPD Harbor officers, from left, Sgt. Mike Amello, Training Officer Nick Martin, Pilot Patrick Memi and Officer Michael Russo, saved a bald eagle that was stranded on an ice floe. (Nicholas Williams / New York Daily News; NYPD)

NYPD harbor patrol says eagle saved from icy Hudson seemed to be begging for help

February 18, 2026 at 4:13 p.m.

A crew of eagle-eyed harbor patrol officers who rescued a stranded bald eagle from an icy stretch of the Hudson River said the big bird was practically begging them for...

Rev. Al Sharpton speaks to reporters about Jesse Jackson (pictured with him inset in 2017) during a news conference in Manhattan, New York, on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. (Barry Williams/ New York Daily News; Getty Images)

The Rev. Al Sharpton credits mentor Jesse Jackson for his own activism

February 17, 2026 at 4:35 p.m.

Hours after Jackson died Tuesday at the age of 84, Sharpton reminisced about Jackson’s impact on the world, from rescuing hostages abroad to running for president back home.

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