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Manhattan

‘Shutting it down:’ Pro-Palestine protest halts transportation and holiday shopping during Midtown demonstrations

By Dean Moses
Rikers Island jail
Opinion

Op-ed | Punitive segregation ban will only endanger more correction officers on Rikers Island

By Antoinette Anderson
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Police & Fire

Correction Department gets new commissioner as possible Rikers Island federal takeover looms

By Ethan Stark-Miller
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Housing & Homelessness

‘Please leave us alone’: East Village homeless say surprise encampment sweeps are becoming more violent

By Dean Moses
The Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA), an advocacy organization representing FDNY firefighters decried on Monday Mayor Eric Adams’ budget cuts they say will affect some of the city's busiest stationhouses.
Housing & Homelessness

‘This can be the difference between life and death’: Firefighters union condemns Mayor Adams’ FDNY budget cuts

By Dean Moses
Sen. Kristen Gillibrand.
Police & Fire

More than 200 gun traffickers busted through federal legislative efforts, Gillibrand and NYPD say

By Dean Moses
Ex-Obama staffer smiles at perp walk following his arrest for anti-Islamic tirade
Police & Fire

Ex-Obama staffer busted for harassing Manhattan halal vendors in anti-Islamic tirade smiles during perp walk

By Dean Moses
NYPD brass testify at police radio encryption hearing
Police & Fire

Over and out? NYPD evades media access questions at City Council hearing on police radio encryption

By Dean Moses
Videos obtained by ProPublica and THE CITY show Detective Manuel Cordova, top left, Officer Omar Habib, right, and Detective Fabio Nunez, bottom left, using chokeholds. Obtained by ProPublica and THE CITY
Courts

NYC ban on police chokeholds upheld by state’s highest court

By Ethan Stark-Miller
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Police & Fire

Over and out? State bill would thwart NYPD radio encryption plan and protect public access to transmissions

By Todd Maisel
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Brooklyn

Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD officials tout crime reduction success, launch new initiative to support at-risk residents

By Dean Moses
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Police & Fire

Blue exodus? Mass NYPD retirements loom over alleged ‘inhumane’ work hours

By Dean Moses
NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban
Police & Fire

NYPD reports alarming 135% spike in NYC hate crimes in October amid Israel-Hamas conflict

By Ben Brachfeld
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and a host of elected officials announced on Monday new legislation that would expand Hate Crime charges as biased attacks continue to rise in the Big Apple.
Crime

Fighting hate: Manhattan pols push expanded charges, closed legal loopholes to combat bias crime spike

By Dean Moses
Marijuana growing in a greenhouse
Police & Fire

High crimes: NY state seizes over $6M of marijuana from illegal shops in October

By Ben Brachfeld
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Manhattan

‘Arrest Eric Adams’: Climate protesters cuffed outside of City Hall amidst FBI raid on mayor’s campaign fundraiser

By Dean Moses
Louis Molina as correction commissioner
Manhattan

Molina departs as NYC correction boss, becomes assistant deputy mayor for public safety

By Robert Pozarycki
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announces effort to fight antisemitic and Islamophobic hate crimes
Police & Fire

Fighting antisemitism and Islamophobia: Gillibrand eyes federal collaboration, financial aid to help stop hate crimes

By Max Parrott
Hundreds were arrested in a Grand Central Station protest.
Police & Fire

War in Israel: Massive Grand Central Station rush hour protest leads to arrests as protesters seek Middle East ceasefire following terrorist attacks

By Dean Moses
transgender rights
Police & Fire

Transgender rights activists demand fair treatment from NY State Sheriffs

By Aidan Graham
Council Members Kevin Riley (center) and Carmen De La Rosa (left) at rally to close Rikers Island in City Hall Park, which a new commission will study.
Police & Fire

New commission formed to update plan to close Rikers by 2027

By Aidan Graham
Officers of the 79th police precinct at the scene of a shooting in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Brooklyn

Bed-Stuy shooting leaves teenager wounded: NYPD

By Isabel Song Beer
Queens

Rikers Island secret lounge and supply stash built by Correction Department blasted by Legal Aid Society as ‘lawless’

By Max Parrott
Flushing
Queens

NYPD’S 109th Precinct talks reduced crime rates in Flushing, address residents’ concerns during community council meeting

By Rachel Butler

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