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Nicole Rosenthal

Nicole Rosenthal (they/them) is an award-winning journalist covering news, culture and investigations from their home base in Brooklyn, N.Y. They are currently a New York City reporter at the New York Post. They are also a freelance reporter open for paid commissions and a guest lecturer available for class visits.

Nicole's work has appeared in NBC News, The Real Deal, Documented, Observer, Patch, amNew York and more. Their high-impact reporting has shed critical light on inequities and injustices in health care, housing, labor and immigration.

Nicole's 2021 collaborative investigation for Patch.com revealed a local political candidate's hidden criminal history and resulted in the candidate's departure from the race. In addition, their 2024 investigation into sex trafficking allegations at a luxury nightclub in Manhattan prompted Lady Gaga to pull her longtime support from the venue.

Nicole's work has been featured on MSNBC's Yasmin Vossoughian Reports and in ProPublica's 2020 Electionland project, POLITICO's NJ Playbook, Hell Gate, Gothamist, Real Clear Investigations and the National Immigration Forum newsletter. They hold a dual bachelor's degree in journalism and psychology from NYU and a master's degree in investigative journalism from the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University.

Nicole is a member of the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the Trans Journalists Association. They are a proud recipient of the 2022 NLGJA Facebook Journalism Project Scholarship.

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NYC tenants vent housing grievances at Mamdani’s first ‘rental ripoff’ hearing — remain dubious of change

Hundreds of New York City tenants vented their housing grievances at Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first “rental ripoff” hearing on Thursday — but remain dubious that their landlord woes will be fixed.

Roughly 500 tenants signed up to speak one-on-one with Mamdani’s controversial tenant advocate, Cea Weaver, and volunteers from several other city agencies to vocalize ongoing housing and landlord disputes at the Downtown Brooklyn hearing.

Weaver began the “rental ripoff” hearing — which was slammed by...
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NYC trash set to pile up next to mountains of snow with ‘normal’ collection stalled till next week

What a bunch of garbage.

New Yorkers should brace for stumbling around towers of trash along with mountains of snow — with city garbage collection not returning to normal till Monday.

“We expect collection will return to normal by Monday, we expect recycling collection to resume next Monday as well,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a press conference Tuesday.

Follow The Post’s live updates for the latest on New York politics, from the city to Albany


The city did not pick up garbage Monday or...
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Highly-anticipated NYC preschool finally set to open— after mysteriously sitting empty for months

A highly anticipated Upper East Side preschool is finally slated to open — after a Post investigation revealed the city-run site had been sitting empty, angering parents.


The former parking garage at 403 E. 65th Street — which was initially scheduled to welcome pre-K and 3-K students in fall 2024 — will open to more than 130 pupils in September, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Thursday.


“For too long, parents across the city have faced a shortage of 3K and Pre-K seats in their neighborhood,...
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Exclusive | NYC pols blast CitiBike’s slow-poke snow removal as bikes stay buried: ‘We deserve better’

Local pols are demanding CitiBike clean up its act — after parent company Lyft took nearly three weeks to shovel all of its Big Apple bike stations out of mountains of snow.


The cleanup chaos came just weeks after the service hiked prices for the fifth straight year – demanding 41% higher membership rates and at least 240% more from casual cyclists.


“Every time you turn around as a CitiBike member, the cost has gone up yet again, and we do not see the improvements in service,” City Council...
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Exclusive | Midtown coffee cart prices spike as supply issues threaten NYC’s last affordable java

Inflation is hitting New Yorkers where it really hurts — in their morning cup of Joe.

Coffee cart prices are creeping up as vendors scramble to keep up with ever-increasing supply costs – leaving caffeine-starved commuters and tourists groaning about another pinch on their wallets.

The iconic carts omnipresent on the sidewalks of Midtown Manhattan are still one of the last bastions of affordable java in the Big Apple, but many spots have upped prices by 50 cents in recent months, with a small...
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Exclusive | Tortured dogs rescued by police from NYC apartment nursed back to health – with 7 adorable pups born in rescuers’ care

It’s a doggone miracle!

More than a half-dozen tortured, starving dogs saved by cops from a Bronx apartment building last summer – and a litter of pups born in the aftermath – were nursed back to health by rescuers at a new upstate rehab center for abused pooches, The Post has learned.

The family of nine “terrier-types” were rescued by cops from a decrepit apartment in the Belmont section of the Bronx after responding to neighbors’ frantic calls for help last August – and found the underweight...
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Exclusive | $525K flag that covered Abraham Lincoln’s casket finds home — in NYC steakhouse

A one-of-its-kind flag that draped former President Abraham Lincoln’s casket during his funeral procession has found a new home in the Big Apple — at a Midtown steakhouse.

Keens Steakhouse, the 141-year-old white tablecloth joint known for its extensive collection of Americana memorabilia, unveiled the gargantuan, half-million dollar auction find during a private unveiling ceremony Thursday.

“It’s truly a treasure,” Keens Steakhouse general manager Julia Lisowski told The Post of the historic...
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Exclusive | Bergdorf Goodman workers claim majority of cash missing from paychecks as parent company Saks Global files for bankruptcy: ‘Unacceptable’

Bergdorf Goodman retail workers claim parent company Saks Global is inexplicably withholding hundreds of dollars from their weekly paychecks.

Nearly two dozen employees at the high-end Manhattan department store have noticed swaths of unexplained deductions – up to two-thirds – from their paychecks since Jan. 1, according to interviews with workers and a Post analysis of paystubs and internal emails.

Saks Global filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Jan. 13 – nearly two weeks after the ca...
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New Yorkers forced to dodge mine fields of unscooped dog poop littering weeks-old sidewalk snow: ‘Not a nice sight’

What a scat-tastophy.

The Big Apple has gone from winter wonderland to poop-filled purgatory in the weeks since last month’s one-foot blanketing of snow — forcing New Yorkers to tip-toe through nasty minefields of unscooped dog doo left behind by owners who carelessly fail to pick up after their pets.

The situation has gone so far down the crapper that frustrated city residents have made 245 “dog waste” complaints to the city’s 311 service — calls that have apparently had little effect as much...
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Exclusive | Homeless people didn’t get help in 96% of 311 calls made during NYC deep freeze: data

A heartbreaking 96% of pleas to help homeless New Yorkers never actually led to any assistance since the deadly cold snap hit the Big Apple  — with city workers unable to even find the destitute denizens most of the time, The Post has learned.


The stunning struggles revealed by 311 data came as the city’s medical examiner testified Tuesday that at least 15 of 18 deaths during the deep freeze were directly related to hypothermia.


City Council members grilled outgoing Department of Social Se...
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Truck driver’s massive TikTok-viral NYC replica makes its Big Apple debut – with museum showcase

America’s next top model is now on full display.


An upstate truck driver-turned-TikTok sensation unveiled his gargantuan wooden model of New York City at a new exhibition Monday in what serves as the replica’s museum debut.


After amassing millions of views on TikTok at the behest of his Gen Z daughter, Joe Macken’s passion project has landed its own museum show — dubbed “He Built This City: Joe Macken’s Model” — running at the Museum of the City of New York from Wednesday through the summe...
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NYC knew about potentially deadly risks of 9/11 toxins – but insisted Lower Manhattan was safe: bombshell memo

A bombshell memo made public Thursday proves the city knew about the potential risks of Sept. 11, 2001 toxins weeks after the terror attacks — as officials told New Yorkers it was safe to return to Lower Manhattan, local pols said.

City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Councilwoman Gale Brewer (D-Manhattan) unveiled the October 2001 memo, in which Big Apple lawyers admitted the city could face tens of thousands of lawsuits, including from people exposed to toxins after being advised they could r...
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NJ Transit causing bottleneck chaos at Penn Station with tough new ticket policy – months before World Cup

This plan has gone off the rails.


A new NJ Transit ticket policy has descended into madness at Penn Station, creating a chaotic rush hour bottleneck at the stairs to the platform where riders now have to present their tickets one-by-one, The Post has learned.


A now-viral video posted to X Tuesday shows a maddening mosh pit of riders crowding a single NJ Transit worker scanning tickets at the entrance to a platform — instead of on the train — as part of a anti-fare evasion strategy launched...
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Ill-fated Brooklyn Mirage concert venue taken over by new owner – with summer reopening date

It wasn’t a Mirage after all.

The Brooklyn Mirage music venue is set to welcome ravers again this June after another nightlife company has stepped in to save the troubled spot, which was not allowed to reopen because of numerous safety issues.

The gargantuan indoor- and outdoor-venue will be renamed Pacha New York, with Pacha Group parent company FIVE Holdings to take over the Brooklyn Mirage.

The troubled Mirage is slated to be entirely demolished and rebuilt, according to permits approved b...
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Year-round outdoor dining to ‘finally’ return to NYC streets, Council Speaker Julie Menin vows

Hope is on the menu for Big Apple restaurants.


City Council Speaker Julie Menin vowed on Wednesday to revive year-round, pandemic-era outdoor dining – after many eateries dropped out of the program entirely in 2025, citing an expensive, lengthy approvals process.


“This is a big one, we will finally fix the city’s outdoor dining program to make it year-round and reduce the regulatory burdens for restaurants,” the newly-minted speaker said at a breakfast hosted by the Association for a Bette...
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CitiBike stations in NYC still caked in mountains of snow, ice, making majority of them unusable

CitiBike is on ice.

Big Apple ridership has plummeted for the Lyft-owned bike-sharing service after deadly Winter Storm Fern dumped over a foot of snow on the city – with the majority of stations still unusable due to snow buildup more than a week later, The Post has learned.

“Most of the snow wasn’t cleaned up,” fumed cyclist Emily Oberlin, who bikes daily from Grand Central Station to her nonprofit job in Hell’s Kitchen.

Oberlin, 36, said she had to search multiple “inaccessible” trash- or...
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Exclusive | NYC pols demand action from Mamdani, blaming ‘ambiguous’ city snow removal rules for delayed cleanup

Local pols are urging the Mamdani administration to map out how the city will deal with snow removal in the future — as mountains of week-old flakes continued to block crosswalks, cover bus stops and even thwart emergency responders.

Staten Island Council Member Frank Morano called for the creation of a clear, citywide “map of responsibility” for snow cleanup in obscure locations, where city agencies allegedly traded blame for the delayed removal in the aftermath of January’s massive storm.

“I...
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Exclusive | NYC EMTs, hospitals plagued by massive piles of week-old snow, thwarting emergency response: ‘It’s been a mess’

Massive snow piles were still clogging up streets near Big Apple hospitals more than a week after deadly Winter Storm Fern — creating dangerous obstacles for emergency responders, The Post has learned.

Several EMS workers at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center on Monday said they’re having serious trouble maneuvering between the snowy mountains, with a Post reporter observing at least six blaring ambulances stuck in gridlock traffic along York Avenue.

“This is one of the worst s...
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Exclusive | Groundhog day, NYC style: Hipsters will watch as Curtis Sliwa determines if rented varmint sees its shadow

Meet Punxsutawney Will.


Hundreds of hipsters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, are gearing up to watch a rented groundhog whisper in the ear of ex-mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa in McCarren Park on Saturday to see whether they’ll be getting six more weeks of winter.


The loopy local twist ahead of Feb. 2, Groundhog Day’s official date, is the brainchild of 26-year-old event organizer Riley Callanan — who shelled out $2,250 to rent the varmint from an animal rental service.


”Last year when I pas...
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NYC bus stop at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center piled with snow for days, thwarting wheelchairs, cane-users

Several city bus stops — including one right outside Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center — were still dangerously plagued by piles of snow several days after Winter Storm Fern, upset riders told The Post.

The treacherous mounds forced commuters — including some with canes — to navigate narrow, slippery paths down to the clearing in the roadway to their bus or avoid the spot altogether because of wheelchair and walker inaccessibility.

“Someone in a wheelchair couldn’t get over the mounds,” s...
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NYC rolls out huge ‘hot tubs’ to melt snow after whiteout winter storm

Hot tub snow machine!


Massive hot tubs have been deployed across the Big Apple for the first time in nearly five years to melt snow from Sunday’s deadly winter storm.


Eight so-called “snow melters” were rolled out Tuesday morning to rid streets, sidewalks and bus stops of pesky snow that would otherwise linger for weeks due to consistently below-freezing temperatures, city sanitation officials said Wednesday.


“The snow is just not melting at all, [and] we want to make sure we have enou...
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Exclusive | Instacart abruptly charges NYers new fee on orders thanks to new law — here’s how much more you’ll pay

It’s a fresh new fee!


Instacart abruptly began hitting New Yorkers with yet another fee this week — blaming sweeping changes to the city’s grocery delivery laws for the new charge, The Post has learned.


“NYC regulatory response fees appear in the order summary,” the FAQ section of the grocery delivery app’s website now reads — a marked change from archived versions of the site just one month prior. 


An explanation of the fee reads that it “helps cover increased operating costs in NYC du...
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Exclusive | Parents outraged as DOE quietly pulls preschool plans from posh NYC nabe – and won’t say why: ‘Unacceptable’

Upper East Side parents are fuming after the city suddenly halted plans for a preschool in the posh neighborhood — and Department of Education officials refuse to explain why they pulled the plug, The Post has learned.

The massive 30,000-square-foot early childhood education center at 403 E. 65th St. was set to open by fall 2024 in order to meet local pols’ and parents’ demand for more classroom seats, the DOE announced with fanfare in 2022.

The site – a former parking garage leased by the cit...
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Winter storm in NYC area and across US live updates: Subway delays, LIRR and NJ Transit run on weekend schedules as NYC area recovers from powerful winter storm

Stay up to date with live coverage of the winter storm battering the NYC area and the US this weekend.


The potentially historic winter storm is expected to impact more than 235 million Americans across nearly 40 states. The storm started Friday and will carry through to Monday.


As of Monday, hundreds of flights out of NYC airports were canceled. On Sunday, more than 11,000 flights were canceled.

Follow live updates on the winter storm for the latest news, analysis and more:

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