Female stranger beats, chokes straphanger, 49, in NYC subway station as rush-hour tensions flare:...
A female stranger pummeled and choked a 49-year-old woman when tensions flared as they inched past each other inside a Queens subway station during the morning rush last week, cops and sources said. The victim was trying to leave the 30th Avenue N train station in Astoria around 9:45 a.m. Jan. 13 when she got into an...
NYPD sergeant with 18 years on job kills driver in wrong-way, head-on crash on...
An off-duty NYPD sergeant driving the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway fatally struck another motorist in a head-on Westchester County crash late Thursday, according to police. Sgt. Tiffany Howell, 47 – an 18-year department veteran – was behind the wheel of a 2021 Infiniti heading south in the northbound lanes...
Mamdani drops a tax bomb that could slam the ultra rich
New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani is testing just how far a big, confident city can go in taxing its richest residents. His plan to sharply raise levies on high earners and corporations is not a tweak to the margins, it is a direct challenge to the way New York’s elite have been treated...
Zohran Mamdani says NYC kids can forget about a traditional snow day on Monday...
What a cold call! Mayor Zohran Mamdani is telling New York City kids to forget about a traditional snow day on Monday — no matter how devastating the forecast is. Public school students can at best hope for remote classes for early next week as the city braces for a potentially devastating storm that the mayor has...
NY car insurance costs too much. Here’s Hochul plan to reduce premiums
Gov. Kathy Hochul is pitching a crackdown on phony car accidents and big payouts for crash injuries that she says have inflated New York's auto insurance costs. At a stop in New York City on Thursday, Jan. 22, Hochul promoted a set of proposals in her new budget that seek to bring down premiums that now average about...
New York mayor Mamdani sent baby box by Scottish Government
The box was sent 3,000 miles (John Walton/PA) PA Archive New York mayor Zohran Mamdani has been sent a baby box by the Scottish Government . Scotland’s Social Justice Secretary, Shirley Anne- Somerville , said it would help the city’s leader develop his own plans for a “baby basket”. The proposal formed part of the...
Here’s What’s Moving Into The Anheuser-Busch Building In Newark
After 75 years, the iconic Anheuser-Busch building in Newark, NJ is closing and a new company is getting ready to move in and take over the location, and no, it's not another brewery.
New York City DEP Commissioner Rohit Aggarwala submits resignation
Rohit Aggarwala joined the DEP in February 2022, and was commissioner during all four years Mayor Eric Adams was in office.
D.A. Bragg announces guilty plea in fatal East Village stabbing spree on 14th Street
A June 2024 stabbing spree that shocked neighbors and reignited calls for a safer 14th Street/First Avenue corridor moved closer to its legal conclusion this week. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. announced yesterday that Alejandro Piedra, 31, pleaded guilty to Murder in the Second Degree, Attempted...
Newark police shooting victim buried as officer’s lawyer defends ‘necessary’ action
Wali Bey was laid to rest on Thursday, three days after he was fatally shot by a Newark police officer in a case that has sparked grief and outrage, calls for the officer’s firing, and frustration over the lack of an official explanation of what happened. Later on Thursday,...
