Gothamist
A non-profit newsroom, powered by WNYC.
Gothamist
Listen Live
News
Early Addition: Alicia Keys couldn't convince her old neighborhood to welcome her casino bid
By
James Ramsay
Published Sep 18, 2025
Share
FacebookTwitterRedditEmail
Never miss a story
Email address
By submitting your information, you're agreeing to receive communications from New York Public Radio in accordance with our Terms .
John Nacion/WireImage
By
James Ramsay
Published Sep 18, 2025
Share
FacebookTwitterRedditEmail
We rely on your support to make local news available to all
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2026. Donate today
Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations
Good Thursday morning in New York City, where everyone's a Liberty fan.
Here's what else is happening:
- Vanity Fair has a good play-by-play of how the Times Square casino proposal — backed by Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Al Sharpton and other celebrities — failed to win over local residents and the theater industry.
- A New York state judge ruled this week that Rudy Giuliani still has to pay some of his defense lawyers $1.3 million.
- "I’m not for boys going into the same bathroom with little girls," Mayor Adams said yesterday in a spiel that also touched on Zohran Mamdani, gentrification, allegedly disrespectful transplants and bike lanes.
- New Jersey Project, a conservative parents’ group that's been labeled an anti-government organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is publicly calling out New Jersey teachers who've made social media comments about Charlie Kirk's killing that the group doesn't like.
- Another year, another New York Fashion Week where Anna Delvey hits the catwalk wearing an ankle monitor.
- Kamala Harris said she wishes Pete Buttigieg could've been her 2024 running mate.
- Scientists have determined that chimps eating fermented fruit in the wild basically consume a lager a day.
- And finally, mission control:
Tagged
early addition
James Ramsay
Read more
Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations
Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations
MORE news
Coney Island's small, 1890s lighthouse may be landmarked by the city
It's in the private community of Sea Gate. Family members of the lighthouse's last civilian keeper are keeping its history alive.
By
Catalina Gonella
Published Oct 20, 2026 at 4:41 p.m. ET
Modified Oct 20, 2026 at 5:47 p.m. ET
New renderings are out for Queens' Metropolitan Park casino
The city's Public Design Commission taking a look at what's in store.
By
Willow Higgins
News
New renderings are out for Queens' Metropolitan Park casino
The city's Public Design Commission taking a look at what's in store.
By
Willow Higgins
Inside Luigi Mangione's legal strategy before his federal guilty plea
By
Samantha Max
NYC proposes crackdown down on AI customer service chatbots
By
Arya Sundaram
Early Addition: There's a new hot duck, this time in Queens
By
James Ramsay
Never miss a story
Catch up on the most important headlines with a roundup of essential NYC stories, delivered to your inbox daily.
Sign upEmail address
By submitting your information, you're agreeing to receive communications from New York Public Radio in accordance with our Terms .