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Gunman shoots victim, accomplice in Hell’s Kitchen attempted chain snatch gone wrong
Two men are in the hospital and two suspects are at large after an attempted robbery in Hell’s Kitchen early Sunday morning resulted in the gunman shooting the victim and one of his accomplices, the NYPD said.
Mother and Daughter Sentenced To Prison For COVID Relief Fraud
A mother and daughter in New York have been sentenced to prison for unjustly receiving $1.7 million in a COVID-19 relief fraud. The mother, Andrea Ayers, was a civilian employee of the Mount Vernon Police Department. The Journal News reports U.S. District Judge Nelson Roman sentenced Ayers to three-and-a-half years in prison; her daughter, Alicia, received a sentence of two years. The younger Ayers, a financial advisor and accountant, will serve 6 months on house arrest following the prison stint. The scheme consisted of both women submitting over 300 fake applications to the Small Business Administration’s Economic Injury Disaster Program...
Woman violently shoved by man in broad daylight in the Bronx: NYPD
HIGHBRIDGE, The Bronx (PIX11) – Police are searching for a man accused of pushing a woman in the Bronx last Wednesday, according to the NYPD. The incident happened at the intersection of Jerome Avenue and East 167th Street in Highbridge around 3 p.m. A man allegedly approached the victim and violently shoved her from behind, […]
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NYC illegal pot shop worker boldly defiant as officials question lack of enforcement: ‘It’s not going to do anything’
A brazen worker at one of the city’s thousands of unlicensed pot shops delivered a message to the New York cannabis cops promising to padlock stores like his — bring it on! The defiant clerk thumbing his nose at authorities works at Gelato on 86th Street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn — but the store does not serve the popular Italian ice cream at all. “That’s nothing new. That’s always been a possibility of getting raided here. But I’m not going to be put out of a job!” said the worker, who refused to give his name and puffed weed during a Post...
‘Midtown Jane Doe’ finally ID’d — thanks partly to eerie twist — 20 years after remains found in cement at former NYC hot spot
NYPD detectives have finally ID’d the remains of a woman found mysteriously entombed in cement at a former famed Hell’s Kitchen hot spot 20 years ago — and they were eerily helped along by a 9/11 victim. Cops believe that the woman — who had only been known as “Midtown Jane Doe” after her skeleton was found by construction workers at 301 W. 46th St. in Manhattan in February 2003 — is Patricia Kathleen McGlone, a teen girl from Sunset Park, Brooklyn, who was last seen in the late 1960s. Detective Ryan Glas of the NYPD’s Cold Case Squad finally got a...
How Columbia University's complex history with the student protest movement echoes into today
NEW YORK (AP) — College students taking up space and making demands for change. University administrators facing pressure to get things back under control. Police brought in to make arrests. At other schools: students taking note, and sometimes taking action. Columbia University, 2024. And Columbia University, 1968. The pro-Palestinian demonstration and subsequent arrests at Columbia that have set off similar protests at campuses nationwide these days and even internationally aren’t new ground for students at the Ivy League school. They’re the latest in a Columbia tradition that dates back more than five decades — one that also helped provide inspiration for the anti-apartheid protest of the 1980s, the Iraq war protests, and more. “When you’re going to Columbia, you know you’re going to an institution which has an honored place in the history of American protest,” said Mark Naison, professor of history and African & African American Studies at Fordham University and himself a participant in the 1968 demonstrations. “Whenever there is a movement, you know Columbia is going to be right there.”
Westwood school board eases limits on classroom debate, restricts recordings of teachers
The new Westwood Regional School board has reversed more of the policies adopted last year by parental-rights advocates, with a vote to scrap rules that limited the opinions teachers could give on "controversial issues." At a meeting last week, the board also approved a “right to privacy” policy that restricts...
Orangeburg Firefighter, School Bus Driver Dies Suddenly
Rockland County resident Matthew M. Duffy, age 57, of Orangeburg, died on Thursday, April 25. Duffy was the Deputy Director of Plant Facilities at Rockland Psychiatric Center for 37 years before retiring in 2021. After retirement, his obituary said that he worked for Peter Brega as a school bus driver for the Nyack school district.
Neighborhoods That Most Need Basement Apartment Legalization Left Out of State Pilot
Gov. Kathy Hochul has a plan to bring New York City’s illegal basement and cellar apartments above board — but it won’t apply to homeowners and tenants in many neighborhoods where the need for legalization is most dire because of gridlock during Albany budget negotiations, sources say. For years, homeowners and tenants alike have pushed […] The post Neighborhoods That Most Need Basement Apartment Legalization Left Out of State Pilot appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.
Columbia president says university 'will not divest from Israel,' sets new protest rules
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Columbia University will only allow on-campus protests "by application" and "with two-days" notice in "authorized locations," the university's president said in a new statement. The university will "will not divest from Israel," University President Minouche Shafik said Monday morning, rejecting the student protesters' "priority demand." Shafik...
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