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Senior managers in the agency that handles government purchasing and leases tried to hide their discussions about hot-button issues from the public by communicating via personal text messages, emails and hand-delivered written memos, an investigation by The City Reporter has found. The conversations involve high-level executives of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), who […] The post City Agency Sought to Hide Nepotism Hire Through Private Messages, Lawsuit Alleges appear

The crash happened just after midnight on Oct. 5 on Ocean Parkway and Avenue S.

HOBOKEN, N.J. (PIX11) — Tuesday marks the first full weekday commute with reduced New Jersey Transit service as construction resumes on the new Portal North Bridge. Service changes began Sunday, but between the weekend and the Monday holiday schedule, Tuesday provides the first real insight into how commuters are adapting to the changes. “Yesterday was […]

New York City restaurants are running out of ways to outrun inflation. CakeBurgers, an East Harlem eatery that serves hamburgers and cakes shaped like hamburgers, turned off its air conditioning — even as temperatures in the city this summer routinely soared into the 90s — after the gas and electric bill spiked to $1,400 a month.

MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — An investigation is ongoing after a 33-year-old woman was attacked by a man with a baton inside a subway station on Oct. 3. The incident happened around 7:12 a.m. at the Lexington Avenue station. Police say the victim was followed by an unidentified individual onto the northbound E train following a […]

NEW YORK CITY — Outside the Southern District of New York courthouse in Foley Square, Independent Veterans of America Founder Paul Rieckhoff and Army veteran Kristen Rouse, along with their attorneys, announced a lawsuit Wednesday challenging New York's continued use of closed partisan primaries. The suit was officially filed Thursday. Independent Veterans of America and the Independent Voter Project joined the suit as organizational plaintiffs. The case is Rieckhoff v. Berger , No. 26-cv-08655.

Defund traffic signals! Liberal City Councilman Chi Ossé was caught-on-video recklessly riding a Citi Bike in the wrong direction down a busy Manhattan street while carelessly breaking traffic laws and blowing through red lights. A witness recorded the lawlessness, which unfolded on Worth Street and Broadway near City Hall on Sept. 2, as the Brooklyn lawmaker pedaled northbound against southbound traffic, weaving dangerously close to pedestrians in crosswalks with the right of way. “I saw him pu

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Mount Eden Parkway & Sheridan Ave. — Reported Moped Robbery and Stabbing. A man riding a moped has been robbing people of their jewelry across New York City since late September, snatching necklaces and chains from victims as young as their 20s and as old as 69 — and in the most recent incident, stabbing a 30-year-old man in the leg during a struggle over his necklace. Police are now asking the public for help identifying him.

A 21-year-old man already serving a life sentence for murder has received more time behind bars after admitting to attacking another inmate with a blade hidden inside a pen cap at an Orange County correctional facility. Manhattan resident Jiniye Hooks, 21, was sentenced in Orange County …