Nick worked at NYC Patch from 2020 to 2023, covering Harlem, the Upper East Side and Astoria-Long Island City. Follow him on Twitter at @nick_garber.
Nick grew up in New York City and went to college in Vermont, where he reported for several newspapers. He later reported for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette before spending a year with Patch in Seattle. He lives in Astoria.
Police are looking for three people accused of stabbing a 15-year-old and taking his cell phone outside the Astoria McDonald's on Monday.
A carbon monoxide leak in a Ditmars Boulevard building Monday sent two people to the hospital and injured four others, authorities said.
The 3,200-apartment, five-block development passed another Council committee Monday, making it poised to win final approval this week.
Rat complaints in Harlem are on pace to break last year's record — but the city claims help is on the way.
The owners of Vers on Ninth Avenue are reportedly upset with a slow police response after someone threw multiple bricks at its windows.
The island's 357-unit Riverwalk 9 building will mark the completion of a nine-building complex set in motion decades ago.
Two smoke shops about a mile apart in Astoria were both robbed at gunpoint within hours of each other on Sunday, police say.
A modest wood-frame Astoria home built in the 1940s is set to be bulldozed for a seven-story apartment building, new plans show.
This week, city inspectors found roaches in Astoria, no heat in Forest Hills, lead paint in Washington Heights, and more.
Two former Harlem officers were convicted of committing illegal searches and lying about them. Now, convictions they won are being vacated.
Maiella and American Brass, two of the neighborhood's most prominent restaurants, paid $20,000 to settle claims that they underpaid workers.
"It's heartbreaking," says the owner of Aero Locksmith, one of a dozen businesses being displaced by Yorkville's latest major teardown.
The palatial Lenox Hill townhouse where Ivana Trump lived and died has been listed for $26.5 million. Take a look inside.
A car was engulfed in flames and appeared to explode Thursday on a street steps from Hudson Yards, according to authorities and witnesses.
Astoria's neighborhood-reshaping rezoning seems likelier to win approval after hundreds of affordable homes were added to the proposal.
Salaam, a speaker and criminal justice reform advocate, is the latest Democrat lining up to challenge Kristin Richardson Jordan next year.
Once mocked by neighbors as "Sanitation Park," Ravenswood Playground has been transformed by a new $7.1 million renovation. Here's a look.
Century-old St. Luke's Episcopal Church will avoid the fate of other Harlem houses of worship that have been torn down after being sold.
An old Upper East Side medical building where residents had complained of rodents and leaky ceilings is being demolished, new plans show.
Police are looking for a Georgia man accused of fatally shooting "dedicated father" Deshawn Gaddy on a Central Harlem street last year.
