The race for Brooklyn District Attorney is in serious play for the first time in decades. Abe George, a former Manhattan prosecutor, announced Thursday evening that he was dropping out of the race, and would throw his support behind Kenneth P. Thompson, who is challenging embattled incumbent Charles Hynes for the Democratic nomination this September.
Despite much criticism from victims and activists, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes has for years steadfastly refused to publish a list he keeps of hundreds of accused pedophiles in the Brooklyn Jewish community. Now facing viable opponents in his re-election bid for the first time in years, Hynes relented – somewhat – and released the names of a few dozen convicted abusers.
Food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout — with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Delivering his most explicit and candid appraisal yet, David N. Dinkins says in a forthcoming memoir that he barely won the New York City mayoral election in 1989 and lost four years later for one reason: because he is black.
The heat wave continued across the Tri-State Area on Wednesday and forecasters said it will continue for at least the rest of the work week.
Hatzolah stepped up to the plate yesterday when it responded to a desperation call involving the collapse of a female staffer at a morning event in Williamsburg hosted by NYC Council speaker, and Democratic mayoral candidate Christine Quinn.
At least a dozen people have been arrested on disorderly charges during a New York City rally protesting the acquittal of George Zimmerman.
Temperatures from the upper 90s to low 100s are expected to roll into the city now until Thursday. A heat advisory has been issued until midnight Monday. This week’s scorching temperatures may even get Mayor Bloomberg desperate for a Big […]
The fact that renting an apartment in New York City is expensive is as obvious to most people as the fact that the sky is blue. But a new report by the real estate research firm Reis Inc. said rental prices just went up.
Oday Aboushi has been touted as being the first Palestinian-American player in the National Football League (NFL), but his radical behavior since being drafted by the New York Jets less than three months ago could get him sent home early. His latest infraction was made as he gave a speech at a radical Muslim conference sponsored by a group denying Israel’s right to exist and associated with blatantly anti-Semitic and terrorist propaganda.
The West Nile virus has been detected in mosquitoes in New York City for the first time this season.
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Fishel Litzman, a New York police officer in training and an Orthodox Jew, took the NYPD to court on Wednesday for requiring him to trim his beard for service. Litzman’s attorneys are saying that the police department’s accommodation, which allows […]
How can you not like this guy? A NYPD Traffic Agent (or Brownie) was captured on video explaining how his supervisors enforce a ‘ticket quota’, while skirting the illegality of it.
A powerful storm that could turn into a rare “derecho” pounded the Midwest yesterday and is heading to the East Coast, threatening New York City.
In response to a bloody weekend of gun violence that claimed the lives of seven people and left least 26 others wounded, the city police commissioner announced he would step up foot patrols in housing projects, increase plain clothes detectives in anti-crime units, add surveillance towers and monitor gang activity to curb retaliatory shooting, a police spokesman said.
Eli Miller, 79, New York City’s senior seltzer man, hoisted crate after crate of seltzer — weighing 70 pounds apiece — into his van and then draped himself over them.
With a population of more than 8 million people there are clearly going to be inequalities in New York City’s living standards.
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