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Wounding mayoral control: Albany grudgingly grants a few more years to keeping schools accountable
Do they sell “Thank You for Nothing” cards? That’s what Mayor Adams and Chancellor David Banks should send to the Legislature after their too-clever-by-half maneuver extending mayoral control over the public school system, which some are counting as a victory for the city. What is broadly called “mayoral control” is not really that. It’s placing accountability for the nation’s largest school ...
As cops beef up patrols after Central Park robbery spree, visitors still on edge; taking precautions
A major uptick of muggings in Central Park — including three violent robberies within a 27-hour span — has left parkgoers on edge, wondering if they will be targeted next, visitors to the iconic greenspace said Saturday. In response to the recent robberies, the NYPD said Saturday that is has stepped up patrols in the park. But visitors were still wary. “It’s a little unnerving,” Upper West ...
Daredevils now riding a new wave by standing on top of NYC buses in twist on deadly subway surfing trend
These daredevils are riding a new wave. Adrenaline junkies are now surfing atop Big Apple buses barreling down major thoroughfares — a new twist on the deadly transit trend of surfing subway cars. One audacious roof rider captured their illegal trip on an M15 articulated bus, the streetscape blurring past as the steel behemoth hurtled down Second Avenue in Manhattan’s Murray Hill neighborhood, video footage shared on Instagram this week showed. Another vertigo-inducing clip posted on X in February showed a hoodie-clad youth crouching down on the roof of a different articulated bus — before hopping on to a different section of the...
More than 50-year-old New York City cold case victim identified after DNA matched with 9/11 victim
A 16-year-old girl believed to have been killed in 1969, has finally been identified 21 years after her remains were found after her DNA was matched to a relative who died on 9/11.
Woeful Incident Man Fatally Attacked by His Own Pit Bull in NYC
A woeful incident has left a community in shock and mourning as a man was fatally attacked by his own hole bull in New York City. The ruinous event serves as a sobering memorial of the implicit troubles associated with pet power and the significance of responsible beast care and operation.
College protesters seek amnesty to keep arrests and suspensions from trailing them
Police in riot gear cleared an encampment on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston as several dozen students shouted and booed at them from a distance. Maryam Alwan figured the worst was over after New York City police in riot gear arrested her and other protesters on the Columbia University campus, loaded them onto buses and held them in custody for hours. But the next evening, the college junior received an email from the university. Alwan and other students were being suspended after their arrests at the “ Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” a tactic colleges across the country have deployed to calm growing campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war. The students’ plight has become a central part of protests, with students and a growing number of faculty demanding their amnesty. At issue is whether universities and law enforcement will clear the charges and withhold other consequences, or whether the suspensions and legal records will follow students into their adult lives.
Columbia’s pain & its protests: The heated debate among Jewish faculty
This essay, signed by more than 100 Jewish faculty members at Columbia University, came in response to 23 other Jewish faculty who published an open letter in the Columbia Daily Spectator student newspaper to University President Minouche Shafik before her congressional testimony under the headline: “Jewish faculty reject the weaponization of antisemitism.” Here are a few “inconvenient truths” ...
Cross County Lanes Closing Between Yonkers, Eastchester
Beginning on Monday, April 29, single and double lane closures will affect both directions of the Cross County Parkway between the Hutchinson River Parkway in Eastchester and the Saw Mill River Parkway in Yonkers, the New York State Department of Transportation announced. The closures will continue through Wednesday, May 1,...
Miss Subways, now in their 80s, recall getting modeling gigs and marriage proposals after their faces appeared on NYC train posters
The subways used to be a lot prettier. And now the timeless beauties who once reigned as “Miss Subways,” and had their faces plastered on train posters, are having a reunion at Ellen’s Stardust Diner in Times Square May 2. The stunning straphangers would apply for the bi-monthly contest — which ran from 1941 to 1976 — by sending in their photo. Three of the winners, now in their 80s, recalled how they became local celebrities after their pictures appeared on 14,000 train placards for 6 million daily commuters to admire. Ellen Hart, Miss Subways March-April 1959, recalled getting handwritten marriage proposals. “I don’t...
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