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Candid cameras: NYC retail shops can start sharing security footage directly with NYPD under pilot

By Mac Sorensen and Robert Pozarycki

men in suits at a podium discussing social workers at NYPD police stations in NYC

Why City Council members want to put a social worker in every NYPD precinct

By Barbara Russo-Lennon

Family members of Win Rozario grieve at rally following police shooting

‘Treated like criminals’: Family of Queens teen Win Rozario demand justice weeks after cops shot him to death

By Dean Moses

Queens shooting scene

NYC crime: NYPD reports big drops in street and transit felonies in April

By Dean Moses

Israeli flag at Brooklyn synagogue

NYC bomb threats at synagogues still under investigation; feds provide $400 million toward security at houses of worship

By Dean Moses

Protester at Columbia University waves Palestine flag

Columbia University cancels school-wide commencement ceremony after protests

By Dean Moses

NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell

City Council seeks probe into NYPD brass’ ‘intimidating and dangerous’ social media activity

By Robert Pozarycki

Students march in protest over Palestine

Chalk pleas and arguments with opponents: Inside another college campus pro-Palestine protest in Manhattan

By Dean Moses

NYS Gov. Hochul at a desk with American flag behind her talking congestion pricing

Hochul unpacks details of major effort to combat retail theft — including tougher penalties and tax credits

By Barbara Russo-Lennon

EMS workers responding to COVID crisis

FDNY required to provide EMS workers with body armor under new laws Mayor Adams signed

By Ethan Stark-Miller

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Queens

After crackdown on street vendors, CM Moya announces return of multi-agency Roosevelt Avenue Task Force

By Bill Parry

Columbia University protests see pro-Israel and pro-Palestine demonstrators clash

Columbia University protests: Protesters clash over controversial campus encampment in chaotic scene

By Dean Moses

A police officer in front of arrested climate protesters in Tribeca

Climate protesters arrested for blocking the entrance of Citigroup’s Tribeca headquarters

By Dean Moses

Protester arrested at Columbia University

Columbia University protest: Calm inside, chaos outside as pro-Palestine encampment continues

By Dean Moses

NYPD brass with Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Edward Caban

More than 1,200 new NYPD recruits approved as city’s fiscal fortunes continue to improve: Mayor Adams

By Robert Pozarycki

Devorah Halberstam and Rivkie Feiner speak at the ADL summit "Never is Now" about antisemitism in the Orthodox Jewish community. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann

Big hate in the Big Apple: Why New York City saw record levels of antisemitism last year, according to Anti-Defamation League

By Barbara Russo-Lennon

Cirque du Trump: Historic first day of former president’s hush money trial devolves into circus-like spectacle

By Dean Moses

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Queens

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards delivers ‘State of the Borough’ address, focuses on green energy projects, hydroponics labs and affordable housing

By Athena Dawson

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams speaks about NYPD radio encryption

Over and out? Public Advocate Jumaane Williams says keeping public access to NYPD radios more critical in wake of Win Rozario police shooting

By Dean Moses

Mayor Eric Adams did not say whether he would sign a bill

Adams declines to say if he’ll sign newly-passed council bills requiring EMS workers be given body armor

By Ethan Stark-Miller

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‘We are going to respond back’: NYPD brass get into social media war with journalists over ‘false info’ in crime coverage

By Dean Moses and Robert Pozarycki

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Bronx Assembly Members Benedetto and Zaccaro Jr. take aim at unlicensed cannabis shops

By Emily Swanson

Cops leave Queens home where Win Rozaro was shot dead in mental health crisis

Queens

Queens police shooting: Calls emerge for firing of cops who fatally shot Win Rozaro as he suffered mental health crisis

By Dean Moses and Robert Pozarycki

Mayor Adams speaks about Queens cop killing

Crime

Mayor Adams says these three things led to Queens cop killing, deadly Harlem subway shove

By Ethan Stark-Miller

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‘You saved my life’: How one Bronx social worker helps transgender patients recover with dignity

Governor Kathy Hochul ordered state landmarks to be lit pink, white, and light blue — the colors of the Trans Flag — in observance of Transgender Day of Visibility.

New York’s elected officials mark Transgender Day of Visibility

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Over $1 million in funding awarded to Queens College’s GLOBE NY Metro science teacher training program

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New York Transit Museum workers vote to unionize, seeking better pay and job security