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Queens’ hottest race you haven’t heard of
Though there are many primary races heating up the World’s Borough this June, there’s one plenty of people likely don’t know much about: The Queens Surrogate’s Court race. The Surrogate’s Court has jurisdiction over matters relating to the affairs of decedents, including the probate of wills...
Police investigating after video shows assault on 2 Jewish children in Brooklyn
(New York Jewish Week) – The NYPD’s hate crimes unit is investigating and the Anti-Defamation League expressed alarm after security camera footage appeared to show two Jewish children being assaulted on the street in Williamsburg on Sunday night. The video of the incident, posted by local news account...
After 23 years served, DA vacates conviction of man falsely accused in Brooklyn lumberyard murder
A man who served 23 years in prison for a 1995 robbery-turned-murder in East Flatbush was found to have not committed the crime, prompting the Brooklyn DA to move to vacate his conviction and correct the record in the case of mistaken identity.
List: NYC affordable housing lotteries with washers and dryers in units
NEW YORK (PIX11) — More than 30 affordable housing lotteries are currently open in New York City, and many of them offer the benefit of washers and dryers in units or a shared laundry room. The properties are listed on the NYC Housing Connect website, an online portal where people can find and apply for […]
Here’s how to snag tickets early to New York Comic Con
MANHATTAN. N.Y. (PIX11) — Get ready to suit up! Presale tickets for New York Comic Con will be available for purchase this summer. Presale tickets for Popverse Superfans will go on sale June 5 and fan verification presale tickets will be available June 9. Tickets for the general public go on sale June 26. This […]
When’s the last day of school before summer break in NYC?
NEW YORK (PIX11) – It’s getting close to the end of the school year in New York City, meaning summer vacations, camps and beach trips are around the corner. As Alice Cooper once sang, “School’s out for summer!” But when will school wrap up for the year? The last day of school for New York […]
Video shows man brutally kicking and beating Orthodox Jewish kids playing on NYC sidewalk
A Citi Bike-riding brute viciously beat two Orthodox Jewish boys, ages 11 and 13, playing on a Brooklyn sidewalk Sunday night in a disturbing, caught-on-video ordeal, cops and sources said. Now the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating whether the attack — which saw the man kicking and stomping on one of the youngsters — was an antisemitic assault, law enforcement sources told The Post. Several kids were playing in front of a condo building on Franklin Avenue near Myrtle Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant just before 9 p.m. Sunday when a stranger stopped his bike mid-block, between two parked cars, and stormed...
Drones smuggled drugs across Niagara River from Canada, 3 suspects caught in NY
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A smuggling operation used drones to fly drugs across the Niagara River from Canada into upstate New York, using a newly purchased $630,000 house along the river as a drop point, according to a criminal complaint unsealed this week. One person has pleaded guilty and...
NYC hospital-building boom on Upper East Side roils upper-crust residents
The Upper East Side, once known as the Silk Stocking District, has embraced cotton scrubs — but not everyone’s thrilled about it. CBRE cited growing demand for healthcare services, especially for those over age 75, for the tony area becoming the “central node” in the Tristate region’s health sector, according to a new report by the company. Five major new hospital and medical projects are rising amid the upper-crust neighborhood’s fancy homes and shops — and three more enormous, highly controversial ones are proposed. New leases and expansions for health facilities in Manhattan totaled nearly 5.4 million square feet since 2018, much of...
You can get free tacos (and, uh, mayo manis) at La Contenta Oeste
We welcome any excuse to enjoy a taco in NYC, but especially when it's a free taco—luckily for us, then, that Hellmann's is celebrating its new Chipotle Mayonnaise Dressing by hosting a free pop-up at La Contenta Oeste (78 W 11th Street) with complimentary tacos, cocktails and more. Running...
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.
Pervert wanted for public lewdness towards senior woman on the 7 train: NYPD
Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City and Transit District 20 are still looking for a sexual deviant who subjected a 7 train rider to public lewdness late last month. On the night of Wednesday, April 24, a 64-year-old woman was on a northbound 7 train approaching the...
NYC squatters would be tracked and mapped under new City Council bill that would also criminalize freeloading
New York City squatters would be tracked and the properties they take over would be listed in an online database under a new City Council bill that would also criminalize freeloading in the Big Apple. City Councilwoman Susan Zhuang introduced the bill Thursday, calling for a quarterly report on squatter properties by the NYPD and other city agencies. “We cannot allow squatters to be above the law,” Zhuang said as she called for squatting to be classified as an illegal act. NYPD could access shops’ surveillance cameras — in real time — under new plan to combat theft The quarterly report would be...
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