Federal judges have dismissed a class-action lawsuit claiming that police officers wrongfully arrested a group of about 700 Occupy protesters in 2011. The outcome is a reversal of the panel’s earlier decision from last summer that the lawsuit should proceed. The demonstrators, who flooded the Brooklyn Bridge without a permit on October 1, 2011, argued […]
A three-story building under construction in Hell’s Kitchen partially collapsed on Wednesday afternoon. The FDNY said that the call came in at 2:37 PM. MANHATTAN | W57 ST & 11TH AVE | *BUILDING COLLAPSE | REPORT OF PPL PINNED, BUILDING UNDER DEMOLITION, NYPD K-9 ENROUTE — One Police Plaza (@1PolicePlaza) February 25, 2015 As of […]
Bill de Blasio’s intrepid plan to fully eradicate traffic-related fatalities by 2024 is well underway. Despite being met by public scrutiny, the initiative called “Vision Zero” received some major funding from the federal government late last year and now we’re seeing more details unfold. The broad plans for Queens were revealed Wednesday by the Department […]
February may have brought New York City a record number of murder-free days, but in January, three birdwatchers came across a gruesome sight: a severed human hand, lying palm up, in Brooklyn’s Gravesend beach. DNAinfo reports that the hand was discovered on the shoreline on Jan. 4. The NYPD investigated further and deduced that it […]
Following the public outcry for the death of Eric Garner, there were many efforts to raise money for the grieving family left behind. However, while Garner’s family has received some donations, they have not received any money for at least 19 crowd-funding projects, DNAinfo reports. Garner’s mother Gwen Carr and Erica Garner, his 24-year-old daughter, […]
After a few recent attacks involving machetes, a state senator wants to add the large blade to the list of knives banned in New York. If Tony Avella gets his way, New Yorkers caught with machetes could be put in jail for a year. It’s a penalty more severe penalty than the one in place, […]
Twelve. That’s how many days New York City went without a homicide. Sadly, a man was shot in Queens on Friday “just before noon,” reports the New York Times. Earlier that day, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton appeared on on “CBS This Morning” and when he was asked about the historically low numbers by host Charlie […]
As of late Thursday night, the NYPD had not investigated a murder since February 1, leaving NYC without any reported murders for 11 days. That’s a “modern record,” according to the New York Daily News: The city is in the midst of a murder-free stretch that snapped the “modern-day” record at midnight Thursday. NYPD officials […]
Hordes of people who gave zero fucks about the plummeting temperature packed Manhattan’s Flatiron Plaza on Thursday night to see rapper and artiste Kanye West perform in his fancy new sneakers. The police had it barricaded like a parade route. To get in, concertgoers had to show a ticket or a special lanyard. I had […]
Officer Peter Liang, the rookie cop who was indicted for six charges in the fatal shooting of East New York man Akai Gurley, apparently debated not reporting the incident for four minutes. It had previously been reported that the officer — who was performing a vertical patrol of the Pink Houses when he fired his […]
