It's Friday in New York City, where Jafet Jemmott, a 15-year-old from the Rockaways, went missing more than five months ago.
His father, Federico Jemmott, said he believes Jafet may have met someone online who lured him away from home, based on conversations with Jafet's friends and the fact that he'd been staying up late on his phone in the days before his disappearance.
While police say they're still investigating the case and so far don't suspect any criminality in his disappearance, it’s a phenomenon experts say is increasingly common among missing youth.
Here's what the NYPD and Jemmott's family are still doing to try to find him.
And here's what else is happening:
Gov. Kathy Hochul said she’s reached a "general agreement" on a New York state budget — but major policy proposals still aren’t settled, including Democrats’ plan to tax pieds-à-terre in New York City.
New York City's Rent Guidelines Board voted last night to consider a rent freeze for regulated units, a move that would fulfill a key campaign pledge of Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Lawyers for Chidozie Wilson Okeke, a Nigerian immigrant whose weekend arrest by ICE agents sparked protests in Bushwick, have filed a petition challenging his arrest and detention.
Some of the Bronx high schoolers who were in class with a 28-year-old woman accused of posing as a student said her vibes were off.
NJ Transit officials said yesterday they'll only charge $105 for train tickets to World Cup matches at MetLife Stadium — down from the previously planned $150 — after it secured funding from private donors.
Congrats to the Stony Brook undergrads whose cardboard-and-duct tape boats successfully made it across the pond at this year's annual Roth Regatta. (And congrats to the others who at least made friends along the way.)
The MTA has demoted a safety superintendent who was caught using forged parking placards so he could park outside the transit agency's headquarters.
There are still a lot of Gilded Age mansions in Manhattan.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill is cracking down on restaurant reservation trading apps, which allowed diners to bid on tables at all the Garden State's hot, buzzy restaurants.
Not sure if it counts as hot or buzzy but The Muffins Cafe on the Upper West Side looks like my kind of scene.
Come on, don't cackle during serious Broadway plays.
All respect to the sheeple out there grinding away from 9 to 5 before tucking in for their doctor-recommended eight hours, but this is New York City: a place where you can also thrive while working or playing at weird hours!
You want Italian water ices, milk ices, frozen custard, soft serve, gelato, Turkish mastic dondurma, Mexican paletas, fro-yo, Indian kulfi, Caribbean and Far Eastern varieties, or some plain old ice cream? We got it.
