Panic At Midtown Chick-Fil-A; School Choir Sex Abuse; Bizarre Zip-Tie Crime Scene: Patch PM

NEW YORK, NY — Today, the local strike movement against Trump's aversion to otherness graduated from the city's bodegas to its brunch spots. Watch out, Washington. Below, find out which NYC businesses participated in the strike, and get yourself schooled on 13 more top local news stories from Thursday, Feb. 16, as pulled from our 28 neighborhood Patch sites across NYC.

Watch: NYC's Fiery City Council Speaker Delivers Final 'State Of The City' Address

Melissa Mark-Viverito proved once again today that she can speak circles around the mayor.

Strikes, Walkouts, Rallies: The Latest From NYC's 'Day Without Immigrants'

Business owners, school kids, elected officials and hundreds of regular New Yorkers came out today in support of the city's foreign guests, documented or otherwise.

School Bus Hits 11-Year-Old Brooklyn Girl In Crosswalk

The girl is in critical condition.

Tribeca Jewelry Store Murder: Man Found Dead In Bathroom With Zip-Ties Around Neck, Reports Say

Cops discovered a bizarre scene in the bathroom of World of Gold N Diamond last night.

Canceled: Martin Shkreli Lecture And Wu-Tang Listening Party At Webster Hall

Big Pharma's most grating character will have to find somewhere else to spew his skeevy market theories and play his $2 million Wu-Tang album to the masses.

Huge ‘Made In New York’ Clothing Factory, Film Studio Coming To Sunset Park Waterfront

The renderings are very warehouse-chic.

South Brooklyn Homicide Cops Still Haven't Found Jennifer Cohen's Killer

Cohen, 35, was discovered dead in Owl's Head Park last September by an early-morning jogger. Police have since released surveillance of a mystery man walking with the victim around 2:45 a.m. — but no one has come forward to identify him.

City Finally Cuts Mega-Contract With 'Slumlord' That Provided Unsafe Housing To Homeless

Last year, two baby girls were killed by an exploding radiator while taking their naps at a sketchy Bronx "cluster site" managed by the Bushwick Economic Development Corporation.

Massive Brooklyn Check-Forging Scheme Brought In Nearly $100K, DA Says

The nine alleged gang members involved, a few of them from the "Bosses in Business" crew, have been charged with grand larceny and forgery.

Health Department Closes Midtown Chick-Fil-A For A Day, People Can't Deal

"I’m dying!” one Chelsea resident reportedly screamed. "'What am I going to do?' I am really upset… I love the chicken sandwich."

Upper East Side Private School Cancels Event At Trump-Owned Ice Rink

School officials feared no one would show up.

Mom's Boyfriend Indicted For 'Horrific' Murder Of 6-Year-Old Harlem Boy

Zymere Perkins was beaten by his mom's boyfriend for months before he was killed, according to the DA.

Harlem School Aide Jailed For Sexually Abusing 2 Choir Boys

Darnelle Watts, 29, may have abused other boys, too, prosecutors say. His sentence? Twenty years to life.

NYC Activists Hold 'Free Daniel' Rally In Support Of ICE Detainee

Daniel Ramirez Medina — a 23-year-old undocumented immigrant previously protected by the "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" program — was detained by the feds in Seattle last week as part of a nationwide sweep. He came to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 7, and now has a 3-year-old son. The deportation process has already begun.