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Social Security latest COLA update for 2025 increase means bad news
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The roughly 70 million Americans who receive Social Security benefits are expected to see the smallest bump in their monthly checks since before the pandemic. Each year, Social Security benefits are subject to an annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) based on inflation rates to ensure that monthly...
C40: Mayors Making Good Food Cities
BROOKLYN, New York – Little about the culinary center serving New York’s Health + Hospitals agency evokes a home kitchen. Hair-netted cooks mix the ingredients for salsa verde in white bins the size of babies’ bathtubs. A row of combi ovens, gleaming and tall, roast hundreds of sweet plantains at a time. Nearby, a 200-gallon water bath chills reduced-oxygen packets of just-steamed yellow-and-white “sunshine” rice, preserving their freshness.
Staten Island police officer from 123rd Precinct retires after 20 years of service to the South Shore
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Staten Island police officer finished his final patrol last Thursday before retirement. According to an online post from The 123rd Precinct, Officer Chris Gilmore brought “lots of smiles and laughter during a 20 year career” at the South Shore stationhouse. “Police Office...
Black Bear Back in Montclair
A black bear roaming around Essex County was back in Montclair, spotted Saturday night. The bear visited a Highland Avenue home below Mills Reservation. Around 8 p.m. Saturday, the bear climbed onto the deck of Debbie Cohen’s home. Cohen tells Montclair Local the bear tried to open the bird feeder but was unsuccessful and left. She also said the bear has a white patch on its neck.
Venezuelan gang members arrested thousands of miles from border
(The Center Square) – Venezuelan Tren de Aragua prison gang members are being arrested thousands of miles from the border after having illegally entered the U.S. in Texas. The Venezuelan prison gang is well-known for orchestrating murders, bribery schemes and money laundering, drug and arms trafficking, and kidnappings for ransom money. In March, U.S. Sens. […]
NYPD: Man throws brick at victim in LGBTQ+ hate crime on Staten Island
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Authorities have filed hate-crime charges against a 29-year-old man who allegedly uttered an anti-LGBTQ+ slur and hurled a brick that injured a victim during an attack in the defendant’s home community of Port Richmond. Augustin Nadreau of Treadwell Avenue stands accused of the violent...
Severe thunderstorm watch in effect for NYC, New Jersey on Memorial Day
NEW JERSEY (PIX11) — The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for a storm expected to hit parts of New York and New Jersey on Memorial Day. The alert impacts all five boroughs in New York City as well as Orange, Westchester, and Putnam counties. Bergen, Essex, Huson, Union, and Passaic counties […]
‘Landmark’ NYC ice cream parlor faces eviction as locals say it’s a sign neighborhood just isn’t the same
An iconic, decades-old Brooklyn ice cream shop is set to be evicted this summer – leaving neighbors and longtime customers distraught over the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. “We have been here since May 1984 – 40 years,” said Anthony “Tony” Fongyit, 74, the owner of Scoops Ice Cream Parlor on Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. “A lot of people have been upset. It’s heartbreaking right now to see what’s going on with this lease situation,” he told The Post. Fongyit was ordered to vacate the storefront within four months when his landlord brought him to civil court earlier in May, following about five...
4-year-old boy dies after drowning in NJ pool
NEW JERSEY - A four-year-old boy died after drowning in a pool Saturday night, the North Brunswick Police Department and Middlesex County Prosecutor said. The North Brunswick Police Department got a call at 7:46 p.m. reporting that a child was found in a pool and not breathing. When the police...
PD: Traffic stop leads to stolen car arrest
HANOVER TWP., LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man was arrested after police say a traffic stop found he was driving in a car stolen from New York City. The Hanover Township Police Department says they arrested Amadeo Batista-Damaso from East Orange, New Jersey after a traffic stop. Police said the car Batista-Damaso was driving had […]
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