Last year, on the opposite coast, a Democratic congressional candidate choked a 13 year old girl for writing "Free Gaza" on a sand dune with detritus, and it never made the news save for a couple local outlets. Literally two, a local am news radio station and the local alt weekly. And they gave it very wishy washy coverage but at least it was something. Eventually one local TV station ran it. But it never broke out of the local news ghetto, despite the guy being an out of town politician that had Democratic institutional support for a house run. Perhaps because of that.

Speaking from a modicum of personal experience, NYC media outlets are gonna be even worse to the point where I don't even think there'd be a small outlet picking it up. Maaaayyybeee the village voice but even that isn't what it once was.

(Edit: Giving it some further thought, WBAI might bite)

Where the above story actually got big, but it took a couple months to build up steam, was social media, in particular TikTok.