A Staten Island judge Monday temporarily paused the hotly contested rollout of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s so-called pied-à-terre tax that levies a surcharge on wealthy New Yorkers who have a second home in the city.
The Fulton Correctional Facility was shuttered in 2011 and transformed into transitional housing for formerly incarcerated men.
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Jennifer Peña raced home from middle school on a Friday afternoon two weeks before Christmas 1999, trying to beat her 3:30 p.m.
Enforcement Counsel Michael L. Johnson sued nearly 200 political committees, but declined to seek sanctions against the Bronx Democratic Party.
If Summer Streets’ new security measures are here to stay, the city should replace NYPD vehicles with physical barriers, cut police staffing costs and use the investment to make the event last all weekend.
Lawsuits pile up. Plus other news.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani drew a clear line between himself and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) on public safety last week, saying police, prisons and jails have a role in keeping New Yorkers safe while the…
Summer Streets was mostly once again a joyous event, though the NYPD did what it could to spoil the fun again.
The lawsuit accuses the NYPD and NYCHA of violating residents' rights by covertly using a free internet program to give police access to public housing surveillance cameras.
Public housing tenants filed a stunning lawsuit against the city Thursday night, alleging that the NYPD is illegally surveilling tenants via technology installed to provide NYCHA tenants free WiFi during the COVID-19…
Bronx public defense attorneys were back on the job Friday after reaching a tentative agreement with their management late Thursday night, marking the end of their 11-day strike and nearly a month of labor turmoil…
A pair of new court challenges are widening scrutiny of the New York City Department of Probation (DOP).
by Max Parrott, amNY The U.S. Attorney’s office is seeking pre-trial detention for John Jones, a 24-year-old man facing arson charges for allegedly starting the fire that tore through the historic South Bushwick…
Under former Mayor Eric Adams, the NYPD attached video surveillance to free internet routers.
A state judicial oversight commission ordered the removal of a Queens Civil Court judge after finding he continued practicing law after taking the bench, allowed a paralegal with a felony criminal record to run his law…
Bronx courts are feeling the impact of the borough’s over 300 public defense attorneys and legal professionals out on strike for ten days, both the union that launched the work stoppage and legal experts say.
Sepúlveda’s professional and ethical missteps as a lawyer warrant his dismissal, lawyer David Kaminsky argued.
Gov. Kathy Hochul was in the Big Apple on Tuesday to attend National Night Out Against Crime in Midtown.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani crisscrossed the five boroughs Tuesday for his first National Night Out Against Crime as mayor — handing out proclamations, posing for selfies and touting record-low shootings and murders alongside…
The Mamdani administration and a major insurer agreed to pay up to $53 million to reimburse retired civil servants who said they’d been wrongly charged copays for medical visits.
Despite efforts to expand the system, more than half of the state’s counties still lack courts that serve people with serious mental illness.
The NYPD's justification for filling this weekend's car-free Summer Streets with patrol vehicles isn't adding up.
Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos, whose 87-month federal prison sentence for fraud and identity theft was commuted by President Donald Trump in October, has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a federal…
Attendees were stunned by the sheer number of police and their vehicles clogging many intersections — in what one cop called "overkill."
Across the more than 6,300 miles of roadway throughout New York City, the NYPD's nearly 34,000 officers ticketed only 32 drivers for blocking bus and bike lanes between July 20 andt 26.
For the first time in nearly six years, the NYPD’s independent oversight entity, the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) has a permanent chair in Jennifer Jones Austin, an anti-poverty champion and advisor to…
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Throughout the summer, inside a small, fluorescent-lit courtroom in Lower Manhattan, hundreds of migrant children, some as young as three, faced deportation hearings.
For residents of an East Village affordable housing complex called Haven Plaza, this summer has been a trial of patience after potentially deadly Legionella bacteria was discovered in their buildings’ water system.