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🚨🚨MUST READ🚨🚨: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of fellow basketball enthusiasts have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup ball, according to four people familiar with the games. The mayor and his crew typically show up around 10 or 11 p.m. and enter surreptitiously through a loading dock before hitting the court. While sports fanaticism has often buoyed the political brand of past mayors, Mamdani’s choice of venue is raising eyebrows. Read the story from POLITICO’s Graham Rayman, Chris Sommerfeldt and Joe Anuta here . FINANCE FLAWS: Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman’s campaign finance disclosure reports have been plagued by inaccuracies since the spring. Copies of the campaign’s bank statements obtained by POLITICO suggest his filings might have even more problems than previously suspected. According to a disclosure report submitted to the state Board of Elections earlier this month, the Blakeman campaign had only $178,000 in the bank as of Sept. 28. Yet the campaign’s checking account had a balance of $1.7 million on Sept. 28, according to TD Bank’s monthly statement. The bank records also show dozens of transactions that are missing from his campaign finance filings. On July 29, for example, the bank statements identified the campaign using a check with the number 1156 to make a $13,500 payment to an unspecified recipient. Yet Blakeman’s campaign finance reports do not identify any transactions that used check number 1156. It also hasn’t shown a single payment totaling $13,500 at any point over the past year. In addition, there are instances in which the bank records show apparent contributions to the campaign that never show up in the disclosure reports. The statements show Blakeman was wired $18,000 by actress Lois Robbins on Sept. 2, for example, while the filings don’t show any transactions totaling $18,000 within two weeks of that date or any donations from Robbins. An $18,000 wire from attorney and campaign finance chair Howard Fensterman in July similarly doesn’t match anything in the disclosure reports. Blakeman is the first gubernatorial candidate in state history to participate in the new matching funds program that lets him receive up to $3.5 million in public money. Then-Mayor Eric Adams was blocked from participating in a similar New York City program last year due to discrepancies between his bank statements and disclosure reports. Reinvent Albany’s Kyle Kennedy said he didn’t know the cause of the discrepancies, but that it could just be due to “the timing of when things were recorded.” But, he noted, Blakeman’s campaign “will automatically be audited by the Board of Elections after the election. … Campaign finance enforcement takes place after elections, not in real-time.” Blakeman’s campaign didn’t respond to a request to explain the discrepancies. It has previously said its campaign finance problems are due to technical issues caused by a large number of donors. Several of the candidate’s campaign finance disclosure reports have been repeatedly amended, often in ways that made the initial numbers wildly inaccurate. His July report showed him with $4.7 million in the bank; that was changed a week later to show his balance was $6.1 million; then in August it was changed to $4.3 million. As POLITICO reported earlier this month , Blakeman has received about $360,000 in donations over the contribution limit that he still needs to return. Many of the donations he has already returned have been highly unusual — one person who gave $1 in July was quickly refunded $780.76. His campaign then said he accidentally submitted some duplicate contributions. Nearly a month later, it hasn’t amended the filing to show which transactions were real. And as New York Focus reported , the Blakeman campaign submitted requests to receive matching funds for 2,600 donations that were ineligible for matches. From the Capitol THE WEEKEND TURNOUT: Early voting turnout has s…

Could New York turn out to be the seawall that breaks this year's much-anticipated — and dreaded — Blue Wave? It's more than just wishful thinking.

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the largest mass-transit provider in the US, anticipates paying an additional $95.6 million for fuel this year after the war in Iran disrupted oil supplies and sent prices soaring.

A four-year-old Highland cow named Maggie who evaded her owners and police for several days in Carmel, New York, was finally captured safely over the weekend. The post WATCH: Police Try to Lasso ‘Maggie’ the Runaway Highland Cow Who Escaped New York Farm appeared first on Breitbart .

If New York can't somehow return to the days of competitive elections where politicians actually have to earn the majority's votes, the state will keep spiraling down.

On Oct. 26, 1825, the Erie Canal, the United States' first man-made waterway, was opened, linking the Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River.

"Holy sh-t! It's a cow!" one person is heard yelling. "Oh my god, he's running straight at my car," another person said.

Bruce Blakeman called Kathy Hochul a "puppet" of Zohran Mamdani at a campaign rally, accusing both of failing on crime and illegal immigration.

Julie Andrews, 91, was photographed in the Hamptons wearing a purple raincoat and pink sunglasses in a rare public outing in the coastal city.

Archbishop Ronald Hicks sent an email Saturday to clergy confirming the settlement after attorneys for the survivors of alleged abuse announced it.

Former Democratic Bronx Assemblyman Stephen Kaufman accuses his own party of being overtaken by socialists while rallying for Bruce Blakeman.

Hundreds of Jewish families, fed up with rising antisemitism and political dysfunction in New York have fled the state for a new community in Florida -- but craven influencers have made life hell for them by spewing vicious Jew-hating rhetoric outside their homes.

The Archdiocese of New York and attorneys for about 1,300 parishioners who said they were sexually abused by clergy have agreed to an $800 million settlement of their legal claims, the second-largest involving a Catholic archdiocese in the U.S.Archbishop Ronald Hicks sent...

New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman says internal polls show a dead heat in his race against Gov. Kathy Hochul.

The 1,300 survivors of sexual abuse by clergy members and lay workers have all agreed to the settlement, according to an attorney for some of the plaintiffs.

Agreement with more than 1,300 victims of clergy members and lay leaders would resolve long legal fight The Catholic archdiocese of New York is finalizing a settlement for at least $800m with more than 1,300 people who said they were sexually abused by clergy members and lay leaders, according to one of the plaintiff’s attorneys. The agreement would resolve a long legal fight, as well as reportedly reduce the risk of the diocese going bankrupt. Continue reading...

Lump-sum payments will be rewarded to people victimized by clergy members and lay people in positions of leadership in the Roman Catholic Church.

The president of a New York investment firm pleaded guilty Friday to running a $54 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of investors.

Marva Cook was adopted as a toddler and had always assumed she was a U.S. citizen, she told Homeland Security investigators earlier this month, according to the criminal complaint.

New York State’s education system is in steep decline. Enrollment is down, but spending is up, and academic results are either stagnant or declining. It’s time to reform our system of governance by axing the Board of Regents and giving the governor direct control of the State Department of Education. State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa,...

Saturday is the first day of early voting in New York and Empire State voters could help decide which party will control the House over the next two years.

New Yorkers don't have a AG right now. They have a political hack using our tax dollars to make herself famous.

Factors included residents and bars per square mile, road and air traffic, construction activity, noise complaint searches, public transit density and dog ownership.

Give Hochul this much: She's making her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, look like a piker with his Buffalo Billion "investments" — which also didn't pan out.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a brief 15-minute joint campaign appearance in Brooklyn to rally voters before Election Day.