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1 day ago | gothamist.com | Samantha Max

Luigi Mangione doesn’t need handcuffs and a bulletproof vest, his lawyers argued in a new court filing. Attorneys for the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson said the security measures at Mangione's state court appearances make him seem dangerous, which they said could sway the perceptions of potential jurors.

2 days ago | gothamist.com | Samantha Max

The New York City Council urged a judge to block federal law enforcement officials — including the Department of Homeland Security — from working on Rikers Island at a hearing in a Lower Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday. First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro issued an executive order in April that allows federal officers to open an office alongside the jail complex, after Mayor Eric Adams announced plans to help remove what he described as “violent migrant gangs” from the city.

2 days ago | gothamist.com | Karen Yi

Briana Hunt was picking up extra work at a hair salon in Washington, D.C., when she got a chilling phone call: Her 1-year-old daughter had nearly drowned in the bathtub in their Bronx apartment under the care of the toddler’s dad. Hunt rushed home in an Uber and arrived to find her child in a coma. Outside her daughter’s hospital room, another shock awaited Hunt: a representative from the city’s child welfare agency.

2 days ago | gothamist.com | Hannah Frishberg

How is a bar supposed to last 30 years in New York City? At the West Village’s legendary lesbian bar Henrietta Hudson, the secret to survival has always been care — also, Lisa Cannistraci. “She’s amazing,” Henrietta’s manager Gabriela Rosales said of the Hudson St. bar’s founder, who opened the bar in 1991 “with donated boom boxes and labor and materials” according to Henrietta’s lore, and website. Cannistraci said part of her bar’s success is that it has been willing to evolve.

3 days ago | gothamist.com | Liam Quigley

Three mornings a week, a fleet of brand-new, $500,000 trucks descends on Harlem to hoist a thousand massive trash bins into the air. Sanitation worker Anthony Martin stood outside one of the trucks on a recent misty morning and signaled his colleague in the driver's seat, Marvin Hernandez, who used a joystick to shake loose a few stubborn trash bags. They slid into the compactor, and the truck's arms lowered the container back into its permanent home in front of a city sidewalk.