NYPD officers drove vehicles into protesters in Brooklyn Saturday night. Devin Khan is in white shirt near top of SUV on left. Screengrab/@pgarapon/Instagram By Virginia Breen, THE CITY Two Brooklyn friends hit by an NYPD SUV that surged into a crowd of protesters Saturday say cops later pepper-sprayed them and struck them with batons — […]
Workers board up storefront windows of upscale SoHo shops after they were ransacked by looters during violent George Floyd protests that swept through Manhattan. – New York, NY / USA – June 1, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Ben Fractenberg, THE CITY SoHo showed the scars Monday morning of another night of protests against police brutality. Local […]
MTA employees clean subway tracks at 96th street station, last stop of Q line during COVID-19 pandemic. – New York, NY – May 6, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Jose Martinez, THE CITY Train operators and conductors have recorded the highest number of COVID-19 infections among subway workers, according to internal documents obtained by THE CITY. Of […]
President of PBA Patrick Lynch speaks during NYC Police Benevolent Association thanks staff at LIJMC – New Hyde Park, NY – April 23, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Greg B. Smith, THE CITY With state lawmakers set to consider nixing a law that bars the public release of police misconduct records, the city’s most powerful police union […]
Gwen Carr demonstrating at Foley Square in Manhattan in honor of George Floyd on May 29, 2020. Hiram Alejandro Durán/THE CITY By Clifford Michel, THE CITY Nearly six years and 1,200 miles separate the deaths of George Floyd and Eric Garner, who both died at the hands of police while repeatedly pleading, “I can’t breathe!” […]
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams distributes PPE to Bed-Stuy EMS volunteers. – Brooklyn, New York/USA April 25, 2020 (Shutterstock) Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president who’s thinking about running for mayor next year, spent 22 years in the NYPD before going into politics, retiring as a captain in 2006. During that time, he founded an […]
Hundreds took to the streets of Manhattan protesting against police brutality after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. – New York City, New York/USA May 30, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Josefa Velasquez, Greg B. Smith and Yoav Gonen, THE CITY State lawmakers in New York are inching closer to repealing a […]
The census only comes once every 10 years, and the 2020 Census will shape our communities for the next decade. Fill it out now at http://www.my2020census.gov. It is critical that New Yorkers get counted in the census, especially in historically undercounted neighborhoods, as the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting all New Yorkers and having a disproportionate […]
Photo Credit: Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMAPRESS (Brooklyn, NY) – May 22, 2020 – Nationally and in New York, reports of bias are flooding in, with the limited data available showing that arrests related to the coronavirus pandemic are overwhelmingly of persons of color and target communities of color. Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte and state Senator Brian A. Benjamin have reintroduced a […]
Three older men wear masks and social distance in J. Hood Wright park in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic. – New York, NY / United States – May 16th 2020 (Shutterstock) By Justin Davidson, NY Mag Soon, New York will start pulling up shutters and setting out chairs. Work-from-homers will […]