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Adams Administration Inks Executive Order Allowing ICE Back on Rikers Island

New York City First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro signed an executive order Tuesday allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to reestablish an office on Rikers Island, rolling back a provision of the city’s sanctuary protections that had been on the books for more than a decade.  Mastro’s order cited “transnational gangs such as MS-13 and Tren […]

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Trump Org’s Bid to Run Wollman Rink Gets Growing Pushback From Manhattan Reps

With the Trump Organization vying to run Wollman Rink in Central Park, 19 elected officials on Tuesday asked Mayor Eric Adams to halt the bidding process and reconsider a proposed $120 million gift by the park’s nonprofit conservancy to refurbish and run the facility that his administration shot down last fall. In a letter to

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Councilmember’s Cop Bite Dismissed After She Undergoes Restorative Justice

A Brooklyn judge dismissed the assault charges against Councilmember Susan Zhuang, the South Brooklyn Democrat who bit a police officer in a scuffle in her district against a forthcoming homeless shelter last summer.  In a Brooklyn courtroom Tuesday morning, Assistant District Attorney David Ingle said Zhuang and Deputy Chief Frank Digiacomo had taken part in

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Nine Years After Fatal Shooting, NYPD Cop To Face Disciplinary Trial

In the nearly nine years since off-duty police officer Wayne Isaacs shot and killed 37-year-old Delrawn Small in an alleged road rage incident in Brooklyn, a criminal prosecution, an acquittal, two lawsuits, an appeal and three investigations have unfolded. But so far, there has been no NYPD disciplinary trial for Isaacs, who shot Small three

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Green Card Holder Targeted for Detention Questions Basis for Warrant to Search Her Dorm

Attorneys for a Columbia University student who has been living legally in the U.S. since age seven are questioning whether the Trump administration, which has been seeking to detain and deport her, “provided incorrect or false information” to a magistrate judge to obtain a warrant to search her dorm room. In a court filing submitted

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How a Group of EMTs Made a Speedy Escape From a Boss-Friendly Union

For years, workers at Citywide Mobile Response, a Bronx-based ambulance service, griped about what they described as their absentee union. Whenever medical equipment and safe trucks were in low supply, they said, their complaints to management fell on deaf ears — and their union was nowhere to be found.  The frustrations led to a campaign

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Wheelchair User Trapped at Rehab Sues NYCHA For Accessible Apartment

In 2013, New York City Housing Authority tenant Susan Bourne had a stroke that completely paralyzed the right side of her body. The former clerical associate for the Administration for Children’s Services had moved to her Staten Island apartment 30 years earlier with her young son. But she hasn’t been back since the incident. For

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Nearly Decade After Brutal Beating by Prison Guards, Man Gets $1.2 Million Settlement

Matthew Raymond has waited nine years for some semblance of justice.  When he first accused upstate prison guards of waterboarding him and delivering a beating so vicious he now uses a catheter to pee, an internal investigation concluded there was no wrongdoing.  Even after he insisted that one of the officers who attacked him at

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Newly ‘Independent’ Mayor Eric Adams Rails Against Democrats in Forum Debut

Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared at a candidate forum for the first time on Thursday at a carefully choreographed event with nine mayoral hopefuls moderated by the Rev. Al Sharpton.  A defiant Adams railed against the Democratic Party and former allies at the National Action Network’s annual convention in Times Square

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