NYC Is the Nation’s Capital of Immigration Courthouse Arrests, New Data Analysis Shows
Our nonprofit newsroom relies on readers like you to power investigations like these. On a recent morning in Lower Manhattan, immigration Judge John Siemietkowski spoke to three people in his courtroom while masked federal officers waited just outside. “I’m sure you can see with your own eyes what’s going on...
Kasem McDonald Fatally Shot Shaneequah Williams
At 10:45 a.m., Kasem McDonald shot Shaneequah Williams, 45 inside her apartment at 89 Astor St., Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens II and Newark Public Safety Director Emanuel Miranda, said. McDonald initially fled the scene but surrendered at the Essex County Correctional Facility on Saturday evening,...
NYC Sheriff’s Office gives inside look at ghost car crackdown
OZONE PARK, Queens (PIX11) – The New York City Sheriff’s Office is on a mission to get illegal ghost cars off the streets. Over 20 deputies were on the lookout for vehicles that should not be on the road in Ozone Park early Monday morning. The Sheriff’s Office’s Ghost Car-Judgement Debt Operation goes after vehicles...
If Eric Adams gets ousted in November, say goodbye to progress on NYC subway...
Mayor Eric Adams deserves a cheer for “Subway Safety Plan” wins, but making the transit system truly safe will mean getting a lot more help to Gotham’s seriously mentally ill. On Monday, Adams announced that the city has placed 3,500 onetime “street” homeless, including 1,000 pulled from the subways , into permanent...
Father of Kevin Mares, NYC man shot dead in Puerto Rico, breaks silence: ‘We’re...
The grieving dad of US tourist Kevin Mares — the New Yorker who was shot dead while on a trip to Puerto Rico for a Bad Bunny concert — spoke out on Monday for the first time since the tragic incident. “It’s very hard,” a heartbroken Hector Mares told The Post. “Yesterday was a hard day. We’re still in pain. He was a...
Zohran Mamdani’s $2,300 rent scandal exposes who this ‘socialist’ is really looking after first...
Who are government-mandated rent-stabilized apartments for? Apparently well-compensated bureaucrats. Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is only paying $2,300 for his stabilized place in Astoria, despite making $142,000 a year as an assemblyman, plus stipends, in addition to however much his artist wife is also raking...
New Yorkers wait years for government housing as over 5,000 NYCHA units sit empty
Tens of thousands of people need homes in New York City while thousands of government run apartments are sitting empty. There are so many of them, if you put them all together, they'd fill up the entire Empire State Building and then some.
Brooklyn duo charged in viral Belt Parkway ‘cash-for-crash’ scam on LI border
Two Brooklyn men have been charged with orchestrating a brazen “cash-for-crash” insurance scam — deliberately staging three wrecks, including one that went viral last fall after a victim’s dashcam captured the bizarre scene on the Belt Parkway, prosecutors said. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Jaime...
Teen accused of stabbing woman with 14-inch knife on Manhattan subway train
Editor’s note: The above video aired in a previous newscast. MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — A teenager is accused of repeatedly stabbing a woman with a large kitchen knife on a Manhattan subway train when she refused to give him her bag, police said Monday. Brandon Balfour, 18, allegedly attacked the 29-year-old woman...
Slain NYC 14-year-old boy’s inconsolable mom weeps as alleged playground killers appear in court
The bereft mom of a 14-year-old boy stabbed to death in a Bronx playground wept Monday as her son’s alleged killers walked into court. Ramona Hernandez de Mendoza — whose ninth-grader Angel Mendoza was killed simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time , according to cops — sobbed so loudly that one of four...
