Apr. 24, 2024 By Dean Moses
A Queens teenager shot a neighbor’s dog on Monday while apparently playing with guns, police said.
Dog recovering after Queens teen shoots canine while playing with guns
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NYC parents slam mayoral control renewal, saying Adams ‘should not be in charge of education’
Apr. 23, 2024 By Barbara Russo-Lennon
Though Mayor Eric Adams scored a victory this weekend, winning the battle of mayoral control over the city’s public schools, not all parents were celebrating with him.
Serious infections linked to rat urine rising as NYC looks to birth control to curb the rodent population
Apr. 18, 2024 By Barbara Russo-Lennon The city’s Health Department is warning New Yorkers about the rising spread of a potentially serious illness linked to rats. Just as the City Council announced a proposal for controlling the city’s rat population using birth control, the city’s Health Department released an advisory saying that cases of…
Turnabout is ‘Fare Play’: NYPD says fare evasion operation led to 175 arrests of armed or drug-carrying suspects in a week
Apr. 17, 2024 By Dean Moses
NYPD transit brass said Tuesday that “Operation Fare Play” was a winning move for public safety, resulting in 175 arrests of dangerous criminals during a concentrated effort to combat fare evasion.
EXCLUSIVE | Go inside the reconstruction of Belmont Park as historic track reinvents itself as a racing mecca
Apr. 16, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki
Belmont Park saw Secretariat move “like a tremendous machine” around its massive oval more than five decades ago when “Big Red” won the 1973 Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown in record-setting glory before tens of thousands of fans who packed the massive, quarter-mile grandstand.
Big hate in the Big Apple: Why New York City saw record levels of antisemitism last year, according to Anti-Defamation League
Apr. 16, 2024 By Barbara Russo-Lennon Antisemitic incidents in New York state reached troubling historic levels last year, a new report released on Tuesday from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows. In its annual audit on antisemitic incidents in New York and across the U.S., the anti-hate organization reported a massive 110% surge in antisemitic…
Stalking the shadows: Go with NYPD Transit cops as they explore dangerous subway tunnels in search of graffiti vandals
Apr. 10, 2024 By Dean Moses
The NYPD Transit Bureau Citywide Vandals Task Force entered the bowels of the city on Tuesday afternoon, following the glint of the rails as they searched for trespassers who use the off-limits subway lines as their personal graffiti playground.
A brief history (and foretelling) of solar eclipses visible from New York City
Apr. 8, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki
Through calculations based on knowledge gleaned by astronomers through the generations, NASA has been able to track every time a major solar eclipse has appeared (or will appear) over New York City and other geographic points around the world, from the recorded birth of Christ up to the year 3000.
New ‘pay-by-plate’ parking meters are coming to NYC streets. Here’s what that means for drivers.
Apr. 8, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld New York City is serving up out new parking meters that will allow drivers to “pay-by-plate.” The new meters, which will first be rolled out in Upper Manhattan on May 8 before a gradual rollout to the rest of the city, will allow New Yorkers to pay for…
Six months of anguish: Relative of hostage held in Gaza amid Israel-Hamas war speaks out on family’s painful ordeal
Apr. 5, 2024 By Barbara Russo
Omer Shemtov is 21 years old and loves music — both listening to it and playing it. Doubly talented in piano and guitar, he has even considered a career in the music industry.