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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 | Thieves nab 20 phones at one NYC concert — as expert warns music fans are targets of global network

Thieves stole 20 phones during a single Brooklyn concert, The Post has learned — as one expert warns it’s part of a growing trend targeting crowded music venues tied to an international black market.


Cops were called to punk band Hot Mulligan’s performance at the Brooklyn Paramount on Nov. 7 when a slew of unsuspecting concertgoers were seemingly pickpocketed– with the thieves turning off the phones so they couldn’t be tracked, officials confirmed.


No arrests have been made to date, but th...
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Historic NYC street named among the ‘coolest in the world’: ‘Character you just can’t manufacture’

Hipsters are in season on Orchard Street.


The bustling Lower East Side corridor was recently named the “coolest” in America — and one of the coolest in the world – though locals say it’s been a trendy celeb hangout for decades.


The historic street earned the No. 9 spot – and the top slot among other US cities – in Time Out magazine’s annual ranking thanks to its timeless blend of old-school New York and youthful innovation across dive bars, tattoo shops, al fresco dining and even a new pho...
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Trio disrupts NYC’s Met Opera in wild anti-fascism protest against ‘art world’

A self-described comedian-activist was one of three protesters whose demonstration against “fascism” in the “art world” interrupted the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan last week, The Post has learned.


Davidson Boswell, 34, of Harlem was charged with criminal trespassing after he decried late billionaire mega-city-arts benefactor David H. Koch from his seat while two activist buddies stormed the opera house’s storied stage in Lincoln Center and waved banners about 9 p.m. Friday, police said....
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Meet tiny NYC crew caring for hundreds of famous landmarks: ‘A lot of work to do’

A tiny obscure team of parks workers is responsible for the upkeep of hundreds of New York City’s most famous landmarks — and it’s racing the clock these days.


The crew of six — solely responsible for the cleaning, repair and conservation of hundreds of historic monuments as part of the city’s small but mighty Monuments Conservation Program — is trying to finish up its necessary outdoor work before Old Man Winter blows in.


“There’s a lot of work to do,” public-art conservator and leader J...
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Exclusive | Storied NYC high school football team forfeits games after numerous varsity players benched due to grades

These players are fumbling on the field and in the classroom.


The Midwood High School varsity football team – a historically successful team with multiple championship wins and NFL alums under its belt – was forced to forfeit multiple games after a group of players was benched mid-season due to bad grades.


The Midwood Hornets retroactively forfeited two games – against Midwood’s James Madison and Ozone Park’s John Adams high schools – on Oct. 25 and Nov. 1, respectively, after it was revea...
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Exclusive | NYC residents demand new ‘rat czar’ when Mamdani takes office: ‘Rats owned the sidewalks’

Rats, not again!


A coalition of rattl-ed Brooklynites living on notoriously rodent-infested blocks are pleading with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to bring in a new rat czar – after their calls for the city to renew the fight against the filthy creatures allegedly fell on deaf ears.


The pair of Prospect Heights resident groups penned a letter Friday to Mamdani, urging him to reinstate the City Hall rat-fighting position, which was dissolved in September when former Rat Czar Kathleen Corradi q...
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Exclusive | Little-known caregiver program in NYC gets $6.2M boost – as number of aging seniors expected to boom: ‘At a pressure point’

Even caregivers need a little love.


A program to support the city’s “invisible labor force” is getting millions in new money to bolster a Big Apple population over 60 that is expected to explode over the next few years, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday.


The city’s Department for the Aging caregiver program will get a $6.2 million infusion, increasing the program’s budget to $15 million — as part of Adams’ November 2025 financial plan, one of several annual updates to the 2026 city budget....
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Staten Island drivers can turn right on red under newly proposed ‘common-sense’ bill

Staten Island drivers could get the green light to turn on red under a new bill proposed Thursday by borough councilman Frank Morano — which he argues will cut down congestion and speed up commutes.


Making a right turn on a red light is illegal in New York City unless a sign explicitly permits it, despite a law allowing the maneuver in the rest of the Empire State.


“Staten Islanders spend far too much time waiting at empty intersections where a safe right turn could be made,” Morano said...
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Exclusive | Empire State Building finally lights up for European nation’s Independence Day – after years-long snub

This glowing tribute was decades in the making.


The Empire State Building lit up in celebration of Polish Independence Day on Monday night for the first time, after years of lobbying to green-light the cultural display, The Post has learned.


Red and white LED lights were switched on at Manhattan skyscraper by Polish soccer star Robert Lewandowski at 10 p.m. Polish time, ahead of the country’s national day Tuesday.


“After many years, this long-awaited tribute, falling on the same date as...
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Eric Adams makes last-ditch bid to save celeb-beloved Elizabeth Street Garden that Zohran Mamdani wants to evict

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is making a last-ditch bid to save the Nolita sculpture garden — by designating it as official city parkland — before the incoming Zohran Mamdani administration takes over, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Post.


The designation was cemented in a Nov. 3 letter from Adams’ Department of Citywide Administrative Services Commissioner Louis Molina, Gothamist first reported Wednesday.


“As we have said for months, we are committed to ensuring Eli...
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Inside the $1K ‘speed limiter’ that would pump the brakes on reckless drivers under proposed NY state bill: ‘We can save lives’

This new gadget is ready to pump the brakes on bad drivers.


New “speed limiter” devices for cars are set to force reckless drivers with multiple violations to finally slow down, by linking to their ignitions and capping how fast their car can go with the help of GPS technology, The Post has learned.


The new units — which could be forced into the cars of some 3,000 bad drivers at $1,000 a pop under a proposed state law — was giving a test drive Wednesday for reporters.

The units gave a gl...
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Exclusive | Elderly couple honored for caring for long-neglected World War I memorial owned by NYC

A late elderly Brooklyn couple who voluntarily cared for an abandoned city-owned World War I memorial in a once-overgrown patch of park were honored Tuesday in a touching Veteran’s Day ceremony.


Williamsburg resident Theresa “Tish” Cianciotta and her World War II veteran husband Guido were celebrated as the loving longtime keepers of Memorial Gore, a set-up on a tiny patch of grass where 83 locals who died in the Great War are remembered.


The couple began caring for the small landmark in t...
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NYC’s MET museum to get whopping $25M taxpayer-funded LED lighting upgrade

Watt does it cost?!


The Metropolitan Museum of Art is slated to get a $25 million LED lighting upgrade – with taxpayers footing the bill.


The Big Apple pays for energy bills as part of a unique partnership with the MET and other members of its “Cultural Institutions Group” — including the Bronx Zoo, American Museum of Natural History and Brooklyn Academy of Music — for nearly 150 years, a rep said.


The world-renowned Upper East Side museum — which is privately owned and operated and has...
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Exclusive | Pigeon poacher accused of kidnapping ‘New Yorkers’ to sell for shooting practice is free as a bird

A Pennsylvania man accused of trapping dozens of “New Yorkers’’ — a k a pigeons — at a Big Apple park to peddle them to hunters for shooting practice avoided becoming a jailbird last week.


Dwayne Daley, 67, had been charged with one count of overdriving, torturing and injuring animals — an offense punishable of up to a year in prison — when cops found more than two dozen pigeons in the back of his truck near Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan in April.


The Bushkill, Pa., resident ended up h...
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Exclusive | Central Park trail becomes central parking lot for NYC workers, official cars

It’s a Central Park-ing lot!


A recreational trail in Central Park meant for joggers and horseback riders has been taken over by city workers using it as a parking lot — with and without official government placards.


The 4.2-mile Central Park Bridle Path – which doesn’t even allow bicycles – has been full of city-owned cars such as police cruisers and private vehicles driven by municipal workers, locals said.


“It started out with a very small amount of cars,” 60-year Manhattan resident T...
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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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