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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, and in 2026, their investigation into 25 unopened 3K centers in New York City prompted Mayor Zohran Mamdani to open one just three weeks later.

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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Hundreds of NYC cooling towers were cited for Legionella testing violations since last year

See more of our coverage in your search results. Hundreds of cooling towers around the Big Apple were dinged by health inspectors over issues relating to Legionella testing since last year, The Post has learned.


Nearly 250 water cooling towers – more than half of which are in Manhattan – were issued violations after the health department found Legionella samples were “not collected, analyzed or results [were] not reported” to the health department, as mandated by law, since Jan. 1, 2025....
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Exclusive | Trendy NYC nabe sees 37% surge in rat sightings in 2026 — even as reports dip citywide

See more of our coverage in your search results. Rat-a-fooey!

Manhattan’s East Village is experiencing a rodent resurgence with a whopping 37.6% increase in rat sightings year over year — even as reports fell dramatically citywide this year, according to Big Apple public records.

Community Board 3 in Manhattan — comprised of the East Village, the Lower East Side, Two Bridges and swaths of Chinatown — saw the critters surging despite significant investments in trash containerization and other...
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Exclusive | Midtown building evacuated over collapse fears is riddled with prior  ‘safety’ issues: records

See more of our coverage in your search results. The buckling Midtown hi-rise dramatically evacuated over collapse fears Tuesday was cited for a slew of dangerous construction safety violations last year, The Post has learned.


The city Department of Buildings slapped seven violations on the 38-story commercial building at 235 E. 42nd St. near Second Avenue between July and December 2025, resulting in a total of more than $32,000 in fines, agency records show.


The violations included the...
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NYC axes new rule on roll-down gates for businesses – after retailers already spent thousands

See more of our coverage in your search results. City lawmakers rolled back an obscure, decades-old law about storefront roll-down gates ahead of a looming enforcement deadline – but not before some retailers shelled out thousands of dollars in upgrades.


The city scrambled to axe the measure ahead of a July 1 deadline, agreeing Tuesday to shelve the law, which would force businesses to install security gates that are least 70% transparent.


The law was passed in 2009 as a supposed anti-gr...
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‘Shame stickers’ for bad NYC parkers are back after years-long ban

See more of our coverage in your search results. They’re sticking it to bad parkers!


Fluorescent “shame stickers” are set to make a comeback in the Big Apple for the first time in over a decade — to bully drivers who ignore alternate side parking rules.


The City Council rubber-stamped Intro-92, which allows street sweepers to once again apply neon adhesive stickers to the drivers-side window of cars found skirting the law, following a 41-10 vote Tuesday.


“This vehicle violates NYC par...
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Massive NYC pool shuttered for repairs – for second year in a row – amid extreme heat wave

See more of our coverage in your search results. One of the city’s largest pools will be closed during this week’s scorching heat wave and for most of next month because of “unforeseen” mechanical issues – the second straight year the aging community “lifeline” has suffered a shutdown.


The popular Red Hook Pool, among five Olympic-sized tubs in Brooklyn, did not open to the public during the citywide outdoor pool opening day Saturday “due to the sudden, unforeseen failure of mechanical equi...
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NYC’s demolition of iconic steam plant used in Marvel series violated its own asbestos rules: records

See more of our coverage in your search results. The demolition of an iconic Manhattan steam plant that served as the filming location for several Marvel streaming series has been halted because the city violated its own asbestos rules.


Work on the 87-year-old, city-owned Roosevelt Island steam plant — set to be razed under a plan managed by the city Housing and Preservation Department — was halted after an inspection by Big Apple environmental authorities earlier this month, according to a...
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Exclusive | NYC’s cooling splash pads facing ‘outages’ in record numbers – with dozens of playgrounds affected

See more of our coverage in your search results. Spray it ain’t so!


The beloved spray showers used by tiny tots to cool off during the hot summer months in city parks have been reportedly out of service in record numbers at dozens of green spaces this summer – and parents are fuming.


Parks officials recently lamented that the city is grappling with “dozens of sprinkler outages” and the department has “very few staff resources for repairs,” according to emails from the agency obtained by...
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Exclusive | Construction of jail in tony NYC nabe turns into potentially deadly ‘clown show’ with failling debris: records, locals

See more of our coverage in your search results. The city’s construction of a new jail in posh Boerum Hill has devolved into a potentially deadly “clown show” — raining rooftop concrete, buckets and sheet metal onto the street, according to records and locals.


The problem-plagued project, one of several jails being built around the Big Apple to replace decrepit Rikers Island, was recently slapped with its fourth stop-work order in two years for such violations as allegedly letting “dangerou...
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NYC’s miraculously saved ‘Alice in Wonderland’ hospital mural goes on public display for first time

A stunning New Deal-era mural of “Alice in Wonderland” characters that was dramatically rescued from a shuttered Manhattan hospital is now on public display for the first time.


The whimsical, sweeping panel series, dubbed “Alice of Wonderland Visiting New York,” was created between 1938 and 1940 by New York artist Abram Champanier as part of a federally funded WPA project for the children’s ward at Gouverneur Hospital, where many young patients were being treated for tuberculosis on the Lower...
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Exclusive | Dogs barking up trouble at NYC eateries in record numbers — and one brazen UES bakery is fetching hundreds of complaints

See more of our coverage in your search results. The city has gone to the dogs.


Complaints of pooches sniffing around Big Apple eateries — roaming aisles, licking produce and even tussling with patrons — have surged to the highest levels on record, according to a Post review of city data.


New Yorkers’ 311 calls about four-legged customers entering bakeries, grocery stores and restaurants have doubled in two years, jumping to a whopping 1,525 in 2025, from just 683 complaints in 2023....
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NYC residents in hot nabe demand judges give up parking lot to provide crucial amenity

See more of our coverage in your search results. They object, your Honor.

Dozens of Brooklynites rallied Sunday to urge the city to finally transform a downtown parking lot used by judges into what it was officially designated for — parkland.

For decades, the jurists and their staff have been using the three dozen parking spots covering forgotten Columbus Park in concrete and refusing to budge, local city Councilman Lincoln Restler told The Post.

“Generation of judges … have just prioritize...
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Dilapidated FDNY firehouses plagued by huge leaks, collapsed ceilings, mold and more

See more of our coverage in your search results. This is a 3-alarm mess.


Struggling firefighters in Queens are waging a constant battle of collapsed ceilings, leaky roofs, mold plagues and other concerning conditions in their very own firehouses.


The Post toured three of the FDNY’s decrepit beachfront stations in The Rockaways Friday — each of which are in such severe states that they could collapse any moment, officials warn.


The firehouses — including one that stands on stilts and...
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Exclusive | NYC Council fighting back on Mamdani’s parks budget cuts — with plan to fund hundreds more quality of life officers

See more of our coverage in your search results. They want to see more green!

The City Council is pushing back against Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s cuts to the Parks Department — seeking to fund an additional 200 officers to monitor quality-of-life issues across the Big Apple’s green spaces, The Post has learned.

The 11th-hour push comes after the mayor’s executive budget plan, unveiled earlier this month, called to slash one-third of the Parks Enforcement Patrol’s existing fleet of 350 officers....
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Exclusive | NYC reviews old construction codes to push more building, spark upgrades

See more of our coverage in your search results. The Big Apple is planning to overhaul its decades-old building codes to spark new construction and accessibility upgrades by finding “cost savings” measures for developers, The Post has learned.


The plan will be rolled out under a Department of Buildings-led “Affordable & Efficient Code Reform” task force starting in late 2026, part of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “Block by Block” master housing plan set to be unveiled Tuesday morning.


It could...
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Exclusive | Beloved NYC bakery hid real reason for sudden closure: Records

See more of our coverage in your search results. The beloved 124-year-old Brooklyn bakery that suddenly shuttered last month, saying its owner wanted to spend more time with family, actually had its state license yanked over stomach-churning violations.


James Caputo, proprietor of Caputo’s Bake Shop in Carroll Gardens, told local news outlets in April that he decided to suddenly close up shop to spend more time with family.


He noted that he couldn’t shell out the dough needed to fix his...
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NYC 3-K applications dip despite Mamdani’s massive push, seat expansion

See more of our coverage in your search results. They can’t give it away for free.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration failed to convince more families to apply to the city’s free pre-K and 3-K programs — and even reported a slight dip compared to last year — despite an aggressive months-long social media campaign and advertising blitz, new data shows.

About 590 fewer students applied to the city’s free 3-K programs this year, marking a 1.4% dip compared to 2025, while pre-K applications o...
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Complaints for open manholes dramatically doubled in NYC before Donike Gocaj died in hatch horror

See more of our coverage in your search results. Complaints about open manholes – such as the uncovered Con Edison hatch that Westchester mom Donike Gocaj fatally plunged into this week – have nearly doubled so far this year across the Big Apple, public data shows.


A whopping 714 calls were made citywide to 311 about a “defective manhole cover” or a “missing” cover since Jan. 1, while the same span in 2025 drew just 374 similar complaints, the data shows.


All of last year drew 1,025 tota...
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Another vacant NYC preschool finally set to open after years-long delay in ‘huge win’

See more of our coverage in your search results. A Brooklyn preschool that cost taxpayers more than $10 million — even as it sat empty for years — is slated to finally welcome tots this fall, City Hall said.

The nine-classroom schoolhouse at 129 Van Brunt St. in the Columbia Street Waterfront District will open in September — after a Post investigation revealed the city-run site was one of dozens to be built, but never opened, under previous mayoral administrations.

The massive early childho...
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Exclusive | Mamdani’s $124.7B budget cuts a third of NYC Parks Enforcement Patrol — and critics warn it will leave major gap in public safety

See more of our coverage in your search results. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s $124.7 billion spending plan unveiled this week includes a plan to cut 100 uniformed officers’ jobs patrolling the city’s green spaces this summer, The Post has learned.

The proposed budget would effectively cut more than a third of the roughly 300 boots-on-the-ground Parks Enforcement Patrol (PEP) staff for the entire city, critics said – and create a massive gap in the city’s public safety system.

“Every neighborhood p...
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NYC delays enforcing decades-old storefront gate law that could cost retailers thousands in upgrades: ‘Unrealistic’

Welcome to the gates of hell.


Big Apple retailers narrowly avoided having to shell out tens of thousands of dollars in upgrades to their roll-gown gates — as the city has temporarily paused its attempt to begin enforcing an obscure, decades-old law mandating changes to the security barriers this summer.


The 17-year-old measure, passed as an anti-graffiti tactic by the City Council in 2009, requires storefronts to replace solid security grilles with gates that are at least 70% transparent –...
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Exclusive | How bitter Ramones legal feud derailed Pete Davidson Netflix movie was finally settled — and why battle may rage on

Gabba Gabba hold on!

A years-long battle over the legal rights to the legacy of punk rock pioneers The Ramones has finally been settled after the feud boiled over because of a shelved Pete Davidson-led Netflix biopic about the band’s late singer.

But the bitter and personal battle may rage on between the family members of the founders — who are all now dead — with a former manager still in the crosshairs now saying he’s unfairly facing the prospect of having to pay millions in legal fees or ju...
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Exclusive | NYC’s most crime-ridden park revealed in startling stats: ‘My most hated’

Drug-infested Washington Square Park was by far the most dangerous green space in the city last year — with more than twice as much crime committed there than all of massive Central Park, data show.

The iconic but beleaguered Greenwich Village park — home to so many druggies and other criminals that community officials want to erect a gate around it — is fewer than 10 acres yet racked up 101 reported crimes, according to statistics.

There were 67 grand larcenies, 24 felony assaults and 10 robb...
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Exclusive | Child sex abuse probe launched at $40K-a-year NYC preschool after staff didn’t immediately report claim, kept parents in dark: records

A posh Upper East Side daycare and preschool that costs up to $40,000 a year is under investigation in connection to an allegation that a student was sexually abused by a staff member — and livid parents claim the administration kept them in the dark for more than a week.


The city Health Department was tipped off to the horrific accusation and launched the probe on April 27 into the Second Avenue location of Manhattan Schoolhouse after inspectors found that the staff failed to report the alle...
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