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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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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more have earned sub-A ratings over the likes of rodents, flies and other hazards — but are duping diners by posting outdated “grade pending” notices or foregoing the mandatory signs altogether, The Post has learned.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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Waymo’s robotaxis hit NYC in test run — but locals, ex-mayor say hit the brakes: ‘Really bad idea’

The robots are here – kind of.


The first driverless robotaxis hit the streets of the Big Apple as part of a test program with humans still in the driver seat, though some New Yorkers said futuristic tech is a disaster waiting to happen.


Waymo officials are assessing how its vehicles will handle city obstacles like jaywalkers, taxis, cyclists and carriage horses as up to eight robotaxis make their way around Brooklyn and Manhattan.


The company, owned by Google parent Alphabet, was grante...
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Exclusive | Inside upstate retreat for aging Holocaust survivors living in NYC — where kugel baking is therapy: ‘It’s a lifeline’

Some of New York’s last living Holocaust survivors escaped the city — temporarily leaving economic burdens, lonely apartments and surging antisemitism fears behind — for a weeklong summer respite in the mountains to partake in “simple joys.”


More than 40 survivors ranging in age from 80 to 105 — mostly Brooklynites living below the federal poverty level — gathered for an all-expenses paid, five-day trip to the Catskill mountains this week to bake kugel, make bracelets for former Israeli hosta...
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Crowds wowed by ‘Sauronhenge,’ a stunning ‘LOTR’-inspired astronomical event with ‘evil’ NYC tower

Move over, Manhattanhenge.


City residents are gushing over “Sauronhenge,’’ the newly coined phrase for an astronomical phenomenon involving the sun aligning with the top of the “evil”-looking Brooklyn Tower — looking akin to Sauron’s lair from the flick “Lord of the Rings.’’


Dozens of Brooklynites lined up at the intersection of Dekalb and Vanderbilt avenues in Clinton Hill last week for the perfect glimpse of the stunning sight.


“The rumors are true!” an enthralled commentator wrote in...
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Tallest subway platform in NYC among 60 stations set to finally get elevators: ‘They’re climbing Mount Everest’

For Brooklyn subway riders, it’s only up from here.


The Big Apple’s tallest subway station is finally set to get elevators, putting an end to straphangers’ 90-foot hike that officials have likened to “climbing Mount Everest.”


The century-old Smith-9th Street subway station in Gowanus – one of the tallest in the world – is slated to finally get elevators and bring relief to huffing-and-puffing F and G train riders under the MTA’s 2025-29 capital plan, state Sen. Andrew Gounardes (D-Brooklyn...
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Exclusive | NYC ex-cons slice and dice their way through new culinary training program dished up to keep them on the ‘straight and narrow’

In this kitchen, justice is served – and finely chopped.


Nearly a dozen ex-cons graduated Monday from the city Department of Probation’s inaugural culinary-skills program, part of a range of new classes offered to parolees to try to bolster employment and slash recidivism rates.


“This is my yellow brick road,” said newly minted class graduate and parolee Angel Rivera, 52, of Brooklyn. “This is going to open up doors for me.”


The 11 graduates — who are serving probation for everything fr...
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Rabbits used in Anna Delvey photoshoot dumped in Prospect Park, sparking outrage as assistant takes blame

A hare-y situation has thrown the Big Apple’s infamous “fake heiress” Anna Delvey back in the spotlight.


The scammer-turned-model got ripped by animal lovers after several rabbits she used in a glamorous photoshoot were found dumped in Prospect Park last week.


Activists quickly drew the link to Delvey, who had posted photos from the downtown Manhattan shoot at around the same time as the rescues, with the caption “our bunny daycare is open.”


“These animals were left in a park to die rig...
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Subway trains advertising defunct, nonexistent lines are baffling NYC riders — but they’re not what they appear

This subway mystery has gone off the rails.


MTA trains have been baffling riders by running with line numbers that have been defunct for decades – or never even used in the first place.


Photos on social media show people on trains advertised as being the defunct 9 line — even more mysteriously — the 10, 11 and 12 ones, which have never been NYC subway lines.


And while the MTA confirms that the mystery trains’ manual “roll signs” have been altered, it has no idea who is to blame — whethe...
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‘Entitled’ NYC pet owners turn kiddie ballfield into illicit poop-filled dog park

This one’s foul territory.


“Entitled” pet owners have taken over a popular Brooklyn ballfield — forcing some Little League teams to flee the site amid the leftover slippery dog waste and dangerous holes dug by off-leash pooches.


The 3-acre Green Central Knoll park, which sits on the border of trendy Bushwick and Williamsburg, has been attracting dozens of dog owners for the past few years because of the massive size of its athletic field, locals told The Post.


The canines’ owners have b...
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Exclusive | Quirky NYC shop trades pickles for books — and is so popular with fans from Harry Styles to Olivia Wilde and Jacob Elordi that it’s expanding

A quirky Lower East Side book shop has found itself in a pickle — and it’s loving it.


Sweet Pickle Books — which trades jars of pickles for books and counts celebs Harry Styles, Olivia Wilde and Jacob Elordi among its customers — has become so successful that it’s scouting a second location.


“I had no idea what I was doing with this store, and it worked out tenfold — I hit the jackpot,” owner Leigh Altshuler, 34, told The Post.


Altshuler, a former communications director for the famed S...
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Popular roller disco nixed at NYC park — and locals are wheely fuming

A popular weekly summer roller-disco event in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park has gotten the wheels pulled out from under it — and locals are in an uproar.


The Dreamland Roller Disco — filled with DJs, dancers and drag queens — was scrapped earlier this month when organizer Lola Star refused to accept a 50% pay cut from the new operator of the LeFrak Center at Lakeside, according to a Change.org petition to “save” the event.


The center, where Roller Disco was held for 11 years during the summer,...
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Exclusive | Foreign tourism to NYC expected to see ‘devastating’ $4B drop this year according to industry experts

For foreign tourists, the shine is coming off the Big Apple.


Some 2 million fewer visitors from other countries are expected to make the trip to New York City this year, which could cost New York City $4 billion in foreign tourism dollars for 2025, a major industry group said.


The drop — which could be as much as 14% — will have a brutal effect on the New York economy, as foreign tourists usually spend big, according to NYC Tourism + Conventions, which did the study.


“Although internati...
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Trouble-packed NYC animal shelters land another $1M in taxpayer funds — GOP’s Sliwa slams as ‘drop in the bucket’

The city is dumping another $1 million into its troubled jam-packed animal-shelter system to hire and train 14 new staffers, City Hall said Friday.


The Animal Care Centers of New York City — a nonprofit with a $1.4 billion contract to run the Big Apple’s animal-shelter system for 34 years — recently announced it was suspending its intake of dogs and cats because of “critical” overcrowding.


The move came days after a Post expose revealed ongoing sickening conditions at ACC’s new $75 million...
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Problem-plagued NYC animal shelters suspend intake of dogs and cats due to overcrowding — GOP’s Sliwa calls to end $1.4B ‘mismanaged’ contract

What a cat-astrophe.


The city’s animal shelter operator halted its intake of Gotham’s unwanted pets last week – for the first time in its nearly 30-year history – due to “critical” overcrowding, prompting calls from Curtis Sliwa to cut its billion-dollar contract.


“This is not a decision we take lightly, but we cannot take any more owner surrenders,” the Animal Care Centers of New York wrote on social media Friday, adding it is at a “breaking point” with over 1,000 animals in its care acr...
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Iconic NYC diner from ‘Taxi Driver’ to close as ‘spirit’ of old Meatpacking District vanishes forever

An iconic Meatpacking District diner featured in the movie “Taxi Driver” will shut down as part of a deal with the city – as locals said the “spirit” of old New York is slowly vanishing.


Hector’s Cafe and Diner, a 76-year-old eatery tucked under the High Line, will shutter on Friday after the local butchers that supply the eatery struck a deal to pack up so the city can build affordable housing and public space on the block.


“If we were making money, we’d be kicking and screaming,” owner N...
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Exclusive | Bizarre NYC swimming pool operating in the street goes viral, as NYPD stalls shutdown: ‘Having the time of their lives’

This Big Apple block is making a splash — for now.


A massive streetside swimming pool set up in the Bronx is heating up on social media, just as daredevils began testing the patience of the NYPD by dangerously plunging into the water off nearby building scaffolding Monday, shocking video shows.


The bizarre makeshift oasis in the middle of Mount Hope Place Friday, in the eponymous neighborhood, was erected by longtime block resident Kenny Perez — an ex-city lifeguard and swim instructor — f...
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Exclusive | Freddy the beloved NYC bodega cat is killed by dogs as their female owner, pals ‘cheered’: activists

A beloved Manhattan bodega cat was horrifically mauled to death by two pit bulls last week as the dogs’ heartless female owner and pals “watched and cheered,” animal rescuers claimed to The Post.


Tragic adorable tabby Freddy was attacked around 9 p.m. Friday outside Michelle Flowers, where he lived, in Washington Heights, according to volunteer rescuers with Cat Collective NY, who said they looked at surveillance video and spoke with witnesses.


The pit bulls’ owner and pals then smoked, da...
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Exclusive | Filthy, cramped conditions at $75M, NYC-funded animal shelter persist a year after Post investigation

Many pooches are still lying in their own filth and crammed into too-small cages at a $75 million city-funded animal shelter in Queens roughly a year after The Post exposed horrific conditions there.


Individual kennels are supposed to be cleaned each time a dog is walked, according to a worker at the Animal Care Centers of New York site in Ridgewood. But none were cleaned during a recent visit from The Post after several dogs were walked for about 5 minutes.


The dogs were simply returned t...
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Five ‘futuristic’ new toilets debut at NYC parks, costing city $1M a pop: ‘A little steep’

They’re flushing millions down the toilets.


The city dumped a whopping $5 million to install five new stainless steel toilets at public parks — even though the futuristic pods sell at a relatively cheap retail value of about $185,000.


The “Portland Loos” cost $1 million each with “additional site specific costs” that included related plumbing, electrical and pavement work that went along with the installation, officials said — but some Big Apple residents said the price tag is totally loo...
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Exclusive | Bed-Stuy aquarium returns and reignites fish abuse concerns as NYC sizzles during heatwave: ‘It will be a painful death’

This could turn into a Bed-Stuy fish fry.


A viral sidewalk “aquarium” that won over the Big Apple last summer has reemerged, The Post has learned – and animal advocates are already sweating in fear that the little swimmers will sizzle in this heat wave.


A glass tank of about a dozen goldfish was planted in a tree pit Saturday, an aquarium caretaker told The Post, next to the pond’s original site — its founder was sentenced to 12 years in prison on unrelated attempted murder charges in Janu...
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NYC unleashes rat death squad to gas vermin with carbon monoxide, bury them in tree-pit graves

They’re on a mission to put the city’s vermin problem to bed.


The Adams administration is unleashing an $877,000 rat death squad to find the rodents, gas them to death with carbon monoxide and bury them in and around the Big Apple’s 600,000 tree beds.


The Street Tree Bed Rat Mitigation program will include a specialized team of a dozen exterminators, park workers and others with inspecting tree beds and deploying carbon monoxide inside rat burrows – where “rodent squatters” will meet their...
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