Good Thursday morning in New York City, where there's officially a new City Council speaker.
Here's what else is happening:
- Hundreds of people gathered in Foley Square last night to protest an ICE agent's fatal shooting of a woman in Minnesota yesterday.
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani yesterday hosted press conference for influencers.
- The yellow clapboard mini-mansion in Fort Greene is set to be turned into a 17-unit apartment building.
- New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill will celebrate her Jan. 20 inauguration with a black-tie ball at the American Dream megamall in East Rutherford.
- The U.S. Department of Justice said about two-thirds of the lawyers at the U.S. attorney's office in the Southern District of New York have been assigned to work on the Jeffrey Epstein case.
- A Brooklyn mom who was picking up her daughter from dance class in Manhattan Tuesday night in a brand new Audi said carjackers kicked her out of the vehicle and stole it. (It was later found totaled in Canarsie.)
- Rare flora and fauna are thriving at ancient archaeological sites.
- Go ahead, have yourself a fancy January in the city!
- And finally, bumper ducks:
Correction: The headline and text of this article have been updated to clarify where Mikie Sherrill is having her inauguration ball. Her swearing-in will be at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.
