A woman was stabbed to death during a dispute outside of a Bronx bar and lounge on early Sunday morning, police reported.

According to police sources, the deadly incident unfolded outside of the Mama Dora Bar and Lounge located at 28 East Kingsbridge Road at around 4:10 a.m. on Oct. 26.

Cops say a group of individuals got into a heated argument just outside the club when an unidentified man attacked a 35-year-old woman.

Police say the female victim was stabbed multiple times throughout the chest by a man described as standing about 5 feet, 10 inches tall, wearing a yellow jacket.

While he fled, sources said, the victim’s boyfriend rushed her to BronxCare Health Systems before she was subsequently transferred to Lincoln Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Police have withheld her identity, pending proper family notification.

The exact motive for the attack remains unclear. No arrests have been made, and the investigation remains ongoing.

Anyone with information regarding this stabbing is encouraged to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, or on X (formerly Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are kept confidential.

The 52nd Precinct had five homicides year-to-date through Oct. 19, down from 11 reported at the same point in 2024. Felony assaults, however, are up 16%, with 753 incidents reported this year.

Iconic New York eateries are saying goodbye to the MetroCard with delicious food promos for New Yorkers to enjoy throughout the rest of the year, the MTA announced on Friday.

The MTA partnered with six restaurants and retailers synonymous with NYC for a months-long celebration to honor the MetroCard’s 31-year history while welcoming subway and bus riders into the era of tap-and-go payment.

Carvel, Golden Krust, Zabar’s, Gong cha, Alidoro, and Stretch Pizza by Wylie Dufresne are the companies participating in the historic, transit-themed promo. They are now offering an array of meals, desserts and beverages on their menus so customers can bid a tasty adieu to the MetroCard before it goes extinct on Dec. 31.

“We’re sending the MetroCard off in style with a farewell campaign that is worthy of an icon by partnering with some of the City’s most celebrated food vendors,” said MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber. “MetroCard has served us well, but we’re excited for the future of tap-and-ride.” 

Featured MetroCard-themed items from the eateries include:  

• Alidoro – The La Tessera sandwich (“the card” in Italian): crispy chicken cutlet, sweet soppressata, fresh mozzarella, Calabrian chili vodka sauce and garlic pesto cream on a toasted semolina baguette. The sandwich will go on sale Nov. 3. 
• Carvel – MetroCard Flying Saucer, free MetroCard Sprinkles with mention of the MetroCard and purchase of scooped or soft serve ice cream, and custom cakes with edible MetroCard and Cardvaark images. 
• Golden Krust – With purchase of Golden Krust’s signature Jamaican-style patty, customers will receive a free Jamaican coco bread. 
• Gong cha – “The M Tea A Drink,” inspired by Gong cha’s signature Milk Foam Green Tea. The limited edition drink combines green tea, pearls, blue milk foam made with butterfly pea flower, and chocolate powder MTA logo, echoes the colors of the iconic MetroCard.  
• Stretch Pizza (by Wylie Dufresne) – The Metro pizza has vodka sauce, fior di latte cheese, chicken cutlet, spicy Calabrian chili, garlic pesto cream and grated parm.  
• Zabar’s – The famous grocery store will have MetroCard and Cardvaark cookies. 

Just one day after the promo started, Carvel Woodside was already selling the MetroCard Flying Saucers, which are round ice cream sandwiches. They feature vanilla ice cream with blue and yellow sprinkles between two crunchy chocolate cookies. 

Store manager Jessica Wong shared her thoughts on the MetroCard entering retirement. 

“I think this is something that is very nostalgic,” Wong said. “This is the last year for the MetroCard, and we just want to celebrate.”

More MetroCard fun

Through the end of 2025, riders can look forward to special pop-up customer outreach events across the city at stations, customer service centers and some MTA Sessions, where riders can pose with MetroCard, token and tap-and-ride props. Riders will also hear some famous New Yorkers bid farewell to the MetroCard.

The New York Transit Museum will commemorate the end of MetroCard sales with MetroCard-themed products. MTA licensee Only NY will be releasing MetroCard merchandise later this year. 

The MTA announced earlier this year that the final day for MetroCard sales and distribution will be Dec. 31, as the OMNY contactless tap-and-ride payment system fully replaces the three-decade old swipe system. Commuters pay with OMNY on trains and buses using their phones, contactless credit and debit cards, and OMNY cards. 

OMNY cards can be purchased at vending machines in subway stations and select retailers in the city.  

The transition to OMNY coincides with a January fare hike for subways and local buses. Fares will increase from $2.90 to $3; reduced fare rides would increase from $1.45 to $1.50. 

Additionally, the express bus fare will increase by a quarter, from $7 to $7.25, and the reduced fares during off-peak hours will jump from $3.50 to $3.60. 

More information about OMNY, fare increases and reduced-fare programs is at mta.info. 

Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist representing Astoria, won the June 2025 Democratic Primary to become the party’s nominee for mayor of New York City. He has emerged as one of the most polarizing figures not only in New York but nationally, especially among Jews.

For many Jewish New Yorkers, Mamdani poses an existential threat that isn’t rooted merely in policy disagreement, but in what his rhetoric and alliances symbolize in a volatile moment for Jewish identity, safety and belonging in Democratic politics.

To say Mamdani is an outspoken critic of Israel — which he has repeatedly charged with “genocide” since the Hamas terrorist attack of Oct. 7, 2023 — is an understatement. Mamdani’s entire political worldview was shaped by his apparent hatred for the Jewish state; the only piece of legislation he solely authored during his time in Albany was the “Not on Our Dime” bill, which was worded in such a way that New York synagogues could be sued into cutting all ties with Israel.

While this goal is shared by his extremist comrades in the New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), it has struck a nerve with Jewish New Yorkers across the political spectrum as deeply alienating.

To many Jews, his continued fixation on Israel, coupled with his delayed acknowledgement of the trauma from the Oct. 7 attacks, felt like an intentional omission, denying our pain and our right to collective grief. It suggests Mamdani is not a politician who will go beyond just saying he’s concerned with our personal safety and security, should the threats emerge from his fellow travelers in the anti-Israel movement.

Mamdani’s leadership within the DSA, his refusal to support a two-state solution to the crisis in the Middle East, and his outright rejection of Israel’s existence as a Jewish state have contributed to a hostile civic climate for the Jewish community.

Bullying, harassment and intimidation of Jews at universities, in cultural spaces, and even in government spaces has forced pro-Israel Jewish New Yorkers to feel as though we’ve been marginalized. When Mamdani and his allies in the New York City Council frame Zionism as colonialism, they implicitly cast a cornerstone of modern Jewish identity, and for the majority of Jews, as morally suspect.

Their attempt to drive a wedge between Jews by demarcating who is welcome based on their affiliation to the all-consuming anti-Israel cause feels to many like a line has been crossed from legitimate (though harsh) political critique into identity-based antagonism.

Mamdani’s defenders argue he is standing up for human rights, not targeting Jews. But in a city where antisemitism has surged, intent matters less than effect.

His continued insistence, along with his allies, that somehow Jews are the perpetrators and not the victims of genocide, and that anyone who doesn’t hold the same view is “complicit,” are amplified through social media and movement spaces, and echo other global narratives that foment Jew hatred. Words do have real-world consequences, as the firebombing in Boulder, the shooting at Washington, D.C.’s Jewish museum, and the attacks on Jewish New Yorkers holding the dubious honor of being the targets of the plurality of all hate crimes in the city, plainly show.

Ultimately, it’s that Zohran Mamdani represents a movement increasingly comfortable with excluding Jews who will not disavow Israel. For New York’s Jews, Mamdani and the DSA’s rise feels like a betrayal of the promise of belonging from the city we love.

Sara Forman is the executive director of the New York Solidarity Network (NYSN), a membership organization committed to empowering New York’s Jewish community in state and local politics, and treasurer of Solidarity PAC.