Politics NY News Headlines Archive for September 26, 2025

Comptroller Brad Lander speaks at a press conference in Queens on September 25, alongside mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani and Assemblymembers Tony Simone and Jessica González-Rojas

Lander, Goldman refer ICE agent for federal prosecution over courtroom shove of Ecuadorian woman

Adam Daly & Lloyd Mitchell

rally for security guard protections

Brooklyn

‘Protect the protectors’: Hundreds rally in support of new regulations to protect security guards

By Claude Solnik

Council Member Robert Holden speaks at a Glendale event honoring Charlie Kirk. Photo courtesy of Robert Holden Instagram.

Queens

CM Holden hosts vigil for Charlie Kirk, bringing more than 1,000 people to Middle Village

By Shane O’Brien

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėdam, First Lady Diana Nausėdienė and members of the Maspeth community at Transfiguration Church on Thursday. Photo: Gitanas Nausėdam X account.

Queens

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda visits Maspeth’s Transfiguration Church

By Shane O’Brien

Mamdani and Adams side by side

Politics

NYC Mayor’s Race: Netanyahu’s UN appearance sparks condemnation from Mamdani, praise from Adams

By Ethan Stark-Miller

Conceptual design for the planned Red Creek Skate Park in Hampton Bays skatepark

Southampton Town Issues Red Creek Skate Park Design Survey

By Oliver Peterson

The Greenport waterfront

Permanent Closing of Peconic Star Fleet Draws Ire, Confusion in Greenport

By Michael Malaszczyk

small business

State comptroller visits Castle Hill small business owners, distributes unclaimed funds

By Emily Swanson

verizon

Verizon Innovative Learning Lab opens in Claremont middle school

By Emily Swanson

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Bronx middle school principal Doreen Kendall, demoted after hiring her sister as a teacher

Jason Collins at the opening of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center on June 28.

Jason Collins, NBA’s first out gay NBA player, dies at 47

Rodolfo Lopez-Porillo of Hollis was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for beating a pawn shop owner to death during a March 2022 robbery.

Hollis man sentenced for brutal murder of pawn shop owner before fleeing state: DA

NY: The Great Israeli Real Estate Event Protest

Dueling protests erupt in Midwood over controversial Israeli real estate expo