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Man snatches display with $3,400 worth of NY lotto tickets in Manhattan: NYPD
MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Police are searching for a man who stole around $3,400 worth of lottery tickets from a 7-Eleven on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan last month, according to the NYPD. The theft took place around 6:40 p.m. on April 20, police said. The suspect brandished a knife at an employee before removing a […]
NYC correction officers with assault rifles stop aggressive driver following them
New York City correction officers armed with assault rifles pulled over a motorist who was following them and driving erratically on a Queens parkway, video seen by the Daily News shows. The officers, assigned to the Correction Department’s Emergency Service Unit, were driving on the Grand Central Parkway transporting a suspect when the driver began trailing close behind them about 10 a.m. ...
It Turns Out the Real ‘Outside Agitators’ Were Actually ‘Business Titans Looking to Shape U.S. Public Opinion’ About Israel
On Thursday, The Washington Post published a report that Adams held a 45-minute video call about the protests with outside agitators of a different kind: billionaires. The post It Turns Out the Real ‘Outside Agitators’ Were Actually ‘Business Titans Looking to Shape U.S. Public Opinion’ About Israel first appeared on Mediaite.
The ‘pastrogi’ is a new mashup of pierogi and pastrami from 2 legendary NYC eateries
We’ll have what they’re having. Sandwich icon Katz’s Delicatessen and beloved Ukrainian East Village eatery Veselka have teamed up to create a new menu mashup: the “pastrogi,” a pastrami-stuffed pierogi. The city’s oldest deli provides its signature deli meat, and Veselka works the pastrami into its classic Eastern European dumplings. Famished New Yorkers best mark their calendars and prepare for a quick trip to Brooklyn, though. The best pastrami in NYC doesn’t come from a deli anymore The one-of-a-kind “flavorful fusion” will only be available for one month at Veselka’s new Williamsburg location at 646 Lorimer St. starting on its opening day, Wednesday,...
“Operation Padlock To Protect” Hits Hell’s Kitchen’s 50+ Unlicensed Smoke Stores
As legal dispensaries finally make their way to Hell’s Kitchen, new emergency regulations allowing the city to permanently padlock unregulated pot shops are starting to curb the neighborhood’s unlicensed cannabis stores. Dubbed “Operation Padlock to Protect” by Mayor Eric Adams, a new set of emergency rules and regulations authorize the sheriff’s office, NYPD and Department […] The post “Operation Padlock To Protect” Hits Hell’s Kitchen’s 50+ Unlicensed Smoke Stores appeared first on W42ST.
Weekend shaping up to be nicer than expected
NEW YORK (PIX11) — It was another damp and chilly day on Thursday as a coastal storm slowly drifted just to south of the region. While the weekend forecast looked gloomy earlier this week, the latest trend from the computer models now looks promising as the next system may track further south. At this point, we may finally have a dry weekend.
Director of company behind NYC-Dublin portal says flashes, raunchy antics ‘inevitable’ — vows return
The misbehavior at the NYC-Dublin portal that caused organizers to shut down the live-stream link between the two cities — including a New Jersey OnlyFans star who flashed the screen — was “inevitable,” says the director of the company behind the project. Joe Callahan said the Portals Organization is working on a high-tech fix, including an AI censor that will blur naughty stunts. He hopes the 8-foot round screens will be off for only “a short period of time, not weeks, not months,” he told The Post. Organizers pull plug on NYC-Dublin portal — for now — as raunchy behavior runs...
NY Man Gets 10 Year Prison Sentence For Homemade Firearms Collection
A New York judge has sentenced a Brooklyn man to 10 years in prison on charges stemming from his possession of unserialized homemade firearms. Last month, a New York jury voted to convict Dexter Taylor on two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon; three counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, five counts of criminal possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of pistol ammunition, and violating a prohibition on unfinished firearms frames or receivers.
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