Manhattan Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg unveils new legal leadership team focused on ‘safety, justice’ – and possibly Trump By Robert Pozarycki
Courts Sue, sue again: Trump takes AG James to court in effort to stop fraud investigation By Brendan Pierson, Reuters
Courts The Jan. 6 Insurrection: Biden says Meadows deserves contempt charges for failure to testify before investigative panel Reuters
Courts New York electeds rally around Planned Parenthood, assure NYC as safe haven for abortion seekers By Dean Moses
Business Black inspectors sue NYC Buildings Department, citing racial and disability discrimination By Ben Brachfeld
Courts City Hall protesters urge NYC prosecutors to do more to review possible wrongful conviction cases By Dean Moses
Courts Supreme Court spurns Catholic hospital appeal over transgender patient By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley, Reuters
The Bronx ‘When did you become God?’ Protesters press Bronx DA Clark to act as Rikers Island death toll hits 14 By Dean Moses
Courts White House blocks Trump attempt to withhold documents related to Jan 6 attack By Jan Wolfe, Reuters
Courts NYPD touts drop in murders, shootings in September – but rates remains far higher than before COVID-19 pandemic By Robert Pozarycki
Courts U.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge to New York tax on opioid companies By Lawrence Hurley and Nate Raymond, Reuters
Courts de Blasio touts faster inmate processing time on Rikers Island as sign of easing crisis By Robert Pozarycki
Queens Shea breaks with de Blasio on decarcerating Rikers Island, says inmates ‘deserve to stay’ By Robert Pozarycki
Queens The week ahead: de Blasio on the clock for promised trip to problem-plagued Rikers Island By Robert Pozarycki
Queens After NYC jail officials ignored suicide prevention plan, five detainees took their own lives By Reuven Blau, THE CITY
Courts ‘Torture island’: Calls grow louder for mayor to shutter Rikers, address inhumane conditions By Dean Moses
Queens De Blasio sparing rod, offering spoils for Rikers Island corrections cops working triple duty By Robert Pozarycki
Manhattan Gracie Mansion protesters urge de Blasio to act over latest Rikers Island inmate death By Gabriele Holtermann
Courts Biden administration seeks to lift U.S. refugee cap to 125,000 By Mica Rosenberg and Lisa Lambert, Reuters
Courts After latest Rikers Island death, de Blasio acknowledges more improvements coming By Morgan C. Mullings
Gay City News Mamdani administration rolls out gender-affirming care fund, phone support line, and trans health research effort
QNS Amid war, a humorous press release about Ridgewood’s ‘future president’: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was
