The NYC Department of Education is shuttering 17 public schools throughout the city after a “rigorous review of academic performance” for the DOE. Among the schools to be closed is P.S. 167 on Eastern Parkway and Schenectady Avenue.
Last year brought a reprieve for the city’s ticket-weary drivers. Red-light cameras snagged 615,726 motorists blowing through intersections between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30 of 2012, down from 880,922 in all of 2011.
The MTA will reconsider installing sliding doors on some subway platforms to prevent riders from getting killed or injured by trains, a top official told the Daily News.
The suspect wanted in connection with the shoving of a Hindu man on a Queens subway platform, which resulted in his death after being struck by an oncoming train, was apprehended in Crown Heights after police was tipped off.
A record number of legal claims were filed against the New York City Police Department in fiscal year 2011, according to a report scheduled for release on Thursday. In fiscal 2011, which ended June 30, 2011, a total of 8,882 claims were filed against the NYPD, up from the previous high of 8,110 filed in fiscal year 2010, New York City Comptroller John Liu said in the report.
Wintry weather is on the way, with forecasters predicting snow, sleet and freezing rain across upstate New York.
According to a column published today on NYC news website DNAinfo, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police commissioner Raymond Kelly New York City has seen the largest number of people arrested in the city’s history – jumping nearly 23 percent compered to the year before Bloomberg took office.
City tow-truck companies are hauling off legally parked cars and then shaking down their hapless owners for cash — threatening to take their vehicles to the impound yard if they don’t cough up the dough.
A tourist’s snapshot of a New York City police officer giving new boots to a barefoot homeless man in Times Square has created an online sensation.
For the first time police officials can remember, New York City went through an entire day with no one shot, stabbed or slashed.
As the New York City Police Department assesses the damage to its properties from Hurricane Sandy, including the loss of about 200 of its vehicles, NY1 has exclusive video of the heavily damaged 60th Precinct house in Coney Island, which was evacuated during the storm.
Old phone booths in Manhattan’s Union Square are getting a modern makeover. Smart screens there display real-time local-based services, community information, current events and entertainment listings.
A Staten Island man in his 60s, dubbed “John Doe Duffel Bag,” was picked up by police for questioning in connection with a series of shopkeeper slayings, ABC News has learned, following tips to police from Brooklyn residents who recognized him in video recorded near two of three shopkeeper slayings in Brooklyn.
The FBI has joined the hunt for a possible serial killer who is thought to be preying on store owners in Brooklyn. Police want to speak with a man who was captured on video just after 6 p.m. Friday near the scene of the most recent killing.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg is extending the gas rationing system in New York City through Thanksgiving, despite having ended already in New Jersey and on Long Island.
After receiving complaints from several constituents, Councilman David G. Greenfield today introduced common sense legislation in the City Council that would allow motorists to temporarily stop at fire hydrants at all times as long as they are ready to immediately move their vehicle in the case of an emergency. Currently, drivers in New York City are allowed to temporarily stand at fire hydrants only during daylight hours, but not during evening hours.
A fire erupted at a Midtown sushi restaurant last night after a worker haphazardly carried gasoline in soy sauce containers, sources said.
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