Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota caused a mini-controversy Tuesday afternoon as he stepped into a Shul during a service prayer while campaigning on 13th avenue in Borough Park.
Murder took a holiday last week. There were no murders in the five boroughs in the seven days ending last Sunday, the mayor’s office said on Monday.
Republican mayoral nominee Joe Lhota warned a group of prominent New York City business leaders that crime could surge if his Democratic opponent Bill de Blasio is elected mayor.
A 14-year-old boy from Queens, who is mute and autistic, has the entire city on alert and searching for him since he went missing six days ago. Police received a tip that he may have been seen in Crown Heights, which brought dozens of police officers into the neighborhood.
A new poll shows Democrat Bill de Blasio leading Republican rival Joe Lhota with 71 percent of likely voters in the race for New York City mayor. Lhota has 21 percent in the Quinnipiac University poll, with Independence Party candidate Adolfo Carrion taking 2 percent.
Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes – who was soundly defeated in last month’s Democratic primary – will actively campaign on Republican and Conservative party lines in a bid to keep his job, his spokesman told The New York Post on Thursday.
New York City’s annual report card says the number of residents killed in traffic accidents plunged considerably over the last year.
A disturbing video has emerged from yesterday’s annual bikers’ event in New York City, showing the shocking moment a Range Rover drove through a crowd of motorbikes as it tried to escape a mob of dozens of bikers that surrounded it.
A New York mall and nearby school were placed on lockdown Wednesday afternoon after two people were shot inside a store near the mall, authorities said.
With the arduous campaign to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg in its final stage, New Yorkers now have their choices before them: stick with policies that have kept the city relatively safe and prosperous, or break from a past that some residents complain has nurtured income inequality and racial divisions.
As the last votes are being tallied up, CrownHeights.info provides a comprehensive summary of who won and who lost in yesterday’s primary election:
2,996 lives were claimed in the terror attacks on September 11, 2001; among them were 418 first responders and emergency workers. Police officers from the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights held a brief memorial service in their honor.
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who ran an upstart campaign pledging to fight New York City’s economic inequality, emerged as the surprising top choice in the Democratic mayoral primary, but could still face weeks — and another electoral fight — before becoming his party’s nominee.
With the democratic election primaries just a day away, one candidate for New York City Councils 35th District, Ms. Olanike Alabi, took the time to sit down for an interview and answer some questions as to why she should be elected and what are her plans once elected.
NYC mayoral hopeful, Democrat Bill Thompson, came to Crown Heights and snagged an endorsement from former US Senator Republican Alfonse D’Amato.
Chunks of ice apparently fell from the sky on an 80-degree day in Brooklyn. The question is, where did they come from?
Crown Heights [CHI] — Several dozen members of the Crown Heights Jewish community gathered tonight, August 26, at the Basil Pizza & Wine Bar to meet with Democratic candidate for New York City Comptroller Eliot Spitzer.
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