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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 sidewalk shed that earned ‘worst’ award taken down after nearly 20 years – and locals are throwing a ‘party’

The owner of an Upper West Side apartment building finally removed its longtime sidewalk shed Monday after nearly two decades – and neighbors are shedding no tears.


The infamous green blight at 51 West 86th St. was even awarded the title of the Worst Sidewalk Shed on the West Side at Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Assemblymember Micah Lasher’s inaugural “Sheddie Awards” this spring.


“It’s been up for a very long time, so the building’s very excited,” resident Omer Hit told The Post.


“There...
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Theatergoers worry as Broadway performers OK strike over contract demands: ‘It’s what people come to do’

Theatergoers are worried the lights may go out on Broadway a threat of a theater strike looms.


Two powerful labor unions representing Broadway performers, musicians and stage managers have authorized a walkout in a contract dispute with theater owners, and theater patrons aren’t too thrilled.


“New York is nothing without Broadway: you can’t get this experience anywhere else,” Alexis Rohan, a 38-year-old tourist visiting from California, fumed to The Post.


“I’m a little surprised that th...
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Inside elaborate costumes at NY Comic Con – including couch-turned-ballgown, hand-bedazzled Cinderella slippers

These outfits are super.


Nearly a quarter million fans of movies, television, anime and video games descended on Midtown’s Javits Center this weekend for celebrity panels, merchandise markets and a cavalcade of eye-turning costumes – some of which took hundreds of hours to put together.


Among the hordes of Jedi, caped-crusaders and armor-glad transformers – and celebrities from Sigourney Weaver to George R. R. Martin – visiting Manhattan since Thursday was a parade of Disney princesses: in...
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Exclusive | NYC weed dispensary pledges ‘courier pigeon’ delivery service – and the twist is ruffling feathers

It’s a bird-brained marketing campaign.


A luxe Big Apple-based cannabis dispensary announced it would be launching a fleet of 20 courier pigeons to deliver gram-sized bags to New Yorkers — but the feathered service is totally phony, The Post has learned.


The Travel Agency unveiled the winged “delivery service,” purportedly set to launch in Manhattan and Brooklyn by 2026, last week, including with a slew of odd videos posted to social media.


“As The Travel Agency, it’s only natural we’d...
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Hundreds of brazen city workers illegally park vehicles in traffic-choked NYC neighborhood, survey finds

It’s enough to drive this pol mad.


Scores of illegally parked vehicles — most driven by city workers and contractors — in downtown Brooklyn are brazenly flouting the law, prompting “dangerous” road conditions for passersby, a new bombshell report revealed.


A survey released Monday by City Councilman Lincoln Restler’s office found an average of 457 illegally parked cars daily across 60 blocks of downtown Brooklyn, between May 26 and June 20, using government placards, phony placards or sign...
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Exclusive | Rowdy teen dirt bike riders ripping up popular NYC athletic field near Yankee Stadium: ‘Devastating’

These teens are on the wrong track.


Hordes of dirt bike-riding rapscallions are tearing up a South Bronx track and athletic field, creating dangerous holes and slippery conditions for local residents who use the beloved park, locals told The Post.


“It’s awful,” lamented soccer coach Naim Kurtovic, pointing to massive holes in the turf at Macombs Dam Park — which was only renovated in 2010 after the construction of the new Yankee Stadium across the street.


The coach added he’s also foun...
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Holtsville Ecology Center’s animal refuge — Long Island’s largest zoo — to close for good after 40 years and alarming abuse allegations: ‘We hoped for this’

Long Island’s largest and most controversial zoo is set to close its doors and ship all its animals off to rescue facilities, as the sanctuary prepares to “wind down” by early next year, officials confirmed Monday.


The Holtsville Ecology Center’s zoo, a Suffolk County taxpayer-funded animal refuge riddled with horrific abuse allegations, will finally be phased out after more than 40 years in operation as Brookhaven town officials look to cut costs and shift focus and funding.


“The operatio...
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Exclusive | Luxe NYC dry cleaner ‘lost’ $110K Fendi coat, dozens of other high-ticket items – including wedding dresses, customers say

They’re leaving well-to-do customers high and dry.


Madame Paulette, a luxury Midtown dry cleaning and wedding gown preservation service, has been slammed with dozens of allegations of losing high-ticket luxury items, including irreplaceable wedding dresses, The Post has learned.


Influencer Claudia Li Johnson became one of the latest to sound the alarm this month after the shop reportedly lost her custom Vera Wang wedding dress while it was being preserved in 2021 – and said it couldn’t fin...
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NYC’s first horror bookstore The Twisted Spine opens, hawking ‘Frankenstein’ to modern classics: ‘Nothing else like this’

New Yorkers just might find something scarier than a rent increase inside a new offbeat storefront.


The Twisted Spine, the Big Apple’s first horror-focused bookstore, opened in Brooklyn this month, hawking upwards of 1,500 books from “Dracula” to “Frankenstein” to “The Haunting of Hill House” – and serving as a spooky place to hang out and have a drink, co-owner Jason Mellow told The Post. 


“It’s been difficult to keep everything in stock,” he admitted as a new 750-book shipment was wheele...
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Union launches vicious $1M ad campaign against Eric Adams’ push for NYC horse carriage ban

The union representing horse carriage riders has launched a $1 million ad blitz through the November election slamming Mayor Eric Adams and others for attempting to ban the horse carriage industry.


“Eric Adams stabbed us in the back,” fumed Transport Workers Union president John Samuelsen.


Samuelsen said Adams’ sudden turn against the carriage industry doesn’t pass the smell test, especially since First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro used to represent the leading animal rights, anti-carriage gr...
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NYC’s first rat czar quietly scurries away from $176K gig in Eric Adams’ administration

Hizzoner’s general in his war on rats waved the white flag.


The city’s first-ever rat czar Kathleen Corradi, has left her $176,000-a-year job, according to City Hall — and it’s unclear if the position will ever be filled again.


Corradi left on her own accord and will be “working to serve the city in a different capacity,” according to Mayor Eric Adams’ office.


”When I appointed Kathy Corradi to this historic, unique job, I knew she’d have the drive and knowledge to send the rats packing...
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Notorious Central Park stretch even more dangerous after redesign, locals say: ‘ Like running the gauntlet’

A notoriously dangerous Central Park thoroughfare for pedestrians and joggers has become even more treacherous — after a redesign that was supposed to make it safer, locals say.


The revamped 6-mile loop debuted in June with just a single two-way lane for pedestrians while creating two new one-way lanes for slow and fast-moving bikes — amid fewer walk signals, confusing new signage and still-ignored cyclist traffic lights, critics claim.


“Crossing any street in Central Park is like running...
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Fetid asphalt plant near trendy NYC neighborhood blasted by locals for ‘noxious’ fumes seeping into homes

These New Yorkers are fuming.


More than 100 residents from a pair of Queens and Brooklyn waterfront neighborhoods slammed a city-contracted asphalt recycling plant near their homes at a tense meeting Tuesday over its smelly, “burning rubber”-like emissions that they fear are making them sick.


The plant, which has operated in Long Island City, Queens, since 2011, was first cited by state officials in January 2024 for spewing fumes that “unreasonably interfered with the comfortable enjoyment...
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Exclusive | Eric Adams calls for Central Park horse carriage ban, inks multi-agency crackdown executive order

Central Park buggy drivers may need to hold their horses.


A ban on Central Park carriage horses is on the horizon, with the mayor signing an executive order Wednesday to crack down on the industry and City Hall eyeing a wind-down of the decades-old tradition by spring of 2026, The Post has exclusively learned.


Mayor Eric Adams took a defiant stance against the horse-drawn carriages in a statement, blasting them as vestiges of old New York that “no longer work for our city” after four carri...
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Exclusive | Ruff crowd: Coaches, parents confront brazen rogue dog owners at popular NYC park

It’s one nasty turf war.


Furious coaches, parents and neighbors staged a showdown with snarling dog owners at a popular but feces-filled Brooklyn ballfield over the weekend that included some pooch-lovers appearing to threaten violence — against kids.


The team of sports supporters launched a “get-our-fields-back” effort Saturday, bringing pint-sized sluggers to play ball at the 3-acre Green Central Knoll park in Bushwick.


Its field has become popular with rogue dog owners who slip past...
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Exclusive | NYC’s hidden ‘noise cameras’ issue $1.7M in fines: ‘Things have gotten worse’

A dozen city “noise cameras” secretly monitoring for loud motorcycles, honking cars and music-blasting vehicles have doled out more than $1.7 million in fines in the past few years, The Post has learned.


“In the last handful of years, things have gotten worse,” said City Councilman Lincoln Restler of Brooklyn, whose office paid for the latest city camera to be installed — a $40,000 device on Tillary Street near the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges — from its own budget.


“Neighbors are frustr...
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NYC renters see ‘significant’ savings over dropped broker fees — but financial boost won’t last: experts

Big Apple tenants have been saving money on dropped broker fees even though landlords try to bake them into higher rents — but the financial gain won’t last, real-estate experts warn.


New York City renters saw a “significant” average savings of roughly $1,300 from the banned fees since the Fairness in Apartment Rentals Act went into effect June 11, according to a study published by tenant review platform OpenIgloo on Friday.


City rents overall this past summer rose a relative modest 6% abo...
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Sept. 11 survivors, pols urge feds to boost ‘insufficient’ health program’s funding: ‘It’s going to get even worse’

Survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks and city councilmembers are urging Congress to approve more funding for a 9/11-related illness health program slated to run out of cash this decade.


The World Trade Center Health Program has provided more than 140,000 survivors with cancer treatment, respiratory care and mental health support since 2011, officials said — but given “insufficient” funding, the initiative will begin turning away new applicants in 2027.


“This program saves lives,” 9/11 survivo...
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NYC park catering to hipsters and stroller moms now full of rats and syringes: ‘Really upsetting’

A Brooklyn park popular with hipsters and stroller moms is being overrun by rats, mounds of garbage and even syringes left near where dogs and tots run around, furious residents told The Post.


McCarren Park on the border of the trendy Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighborhoods has been plagued by the scourges since the start of the summer, and conditions are only getting worse, said fuming locals — who are demanding the city intervene asap.


“It’s really upsetting because we moved here and w...
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MTA buses earn atrocious D, F grades for speed, reliability as some NYC pedestrians out-walk certain routes: bombshell report

Most of the city’s buses that ferry more than a million daily riders earn D and F ratings when it comes to reliability and speed — with pedestrians even out-walking some of them, a dismal new report shows.


About 56% of the Big Apple’s bus routes are running at speeds “significantly below” where they should be, causing them to lag behind schedule more than half of the time, City Comptroller Brad Lander said in his office’s “Life in the Fast Lane: A Report Card for NYC’s Buses” report released...
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Exclusive | Buzzy NYC restaurants and bars dupe customers, city inspectors by hiding below-A health ratings

They only get an A for effort.


Nearly a dozen Instagram-worthy hotspots around the Big Apple are pulling a fast one on oblivious foodies by hiding their city-issued B and C letter grades, The Post has found.


Trendy eateries such as Serafina, Citizens of Soho, Flippers and more have earned sub-A ratings over the likes of rodents, flies and other hazards — but are duping diners by posting outdated “grade pending” notices or foregoing the mandatory signs altogether, The Post has learned.


R...
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Exclusive | Blindsided residents ordered to evacuate crumbling NYC building after huge chunk of facade falls in tourist hotspot

A chunk of a West Village building’s brick façade came crashing down outside a popular bakery this month, prompting the city to order the evacuation of the century-old complex.


But nearly a dozen residents told The Post they had “no clue” that they’d been ordered to leave their homes, alleging they were kept in the dark about conditions in the five-story building being deemed “perilous to life.”


“Even if any of us were to be sitting on our fire escape, we could easily be hit by one of the...
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Exclusive | Carbone hid ‘B’ health rating — with latest NYC inspection finding dirty dishes, food left above safe temps

A-listers have been settling for a B for years without even knowing.


Perennially-buzzy West Village red sauce joint Carbone has been concealing its city-issued, cleanliness-rating “B” letter grade from diners — possibly for years, The Post has learned.


The ritzy Thompson Street restaurant – where the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Rihanna and the Kardashians have been spotted on repeat since it opened in 2012 — has been dinged for sanitary violations worthy of a below-A rating “B” status sinc...
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Exclusive | Historic former NY stock exchange building in ‘perilous to life’ disrepair — billionaire owner lands criminal summons

The historic former American Stock Exchange in Manhattan is raining potentially deadly debris on the street — earning its billionaire owner a criminal summons over its lame sidewalk shed, according to the city.


The unsightly, ineffective sidewalk shed at the landmarked 15-story site at 86 Trinity Place was erected in late 2017 while repairs were being made to the building’s façade, a city Department of Buildings rep said.Eight years later, the green-painted eyesore remains — and “the owner ha...
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