By Gabriel Sandoval, The CITY The phased shutdown of a hospital serving eastern Brooklyn hit a turning point Wednesday: It marked the first day in more than 90 years that Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center didn’t admit patients to beds. “It’s a shame,” said Sergio Enriquez, whose 78-year-old uncle was experiencing bowel obstruction on Wednesday when […]
Time is running out to register. Here is what you need to know to make sure you can cast your ranked-choice ballot for everything from your local City Council contest to the citywide race for mayor.
By Allison Dikanovic, THE CITY We’re officially six weeks out from Primary Day on June 22. But there’s another date you need to mark on your calendar: May 28. That’s the last day you can register to vote in the June 22 primary. To help make sure that as many New Yorkers as possible participate in choosing our next […]
More Than 67,000 Complaints to Federal Trade Commission, Up 85 Percent from Previous Year.
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli addresses during Governor Andrew Cuomo inauguration for third term at Ellis Island. – New York, NY – January 1, 2019 (Shutterstock) Identity thefts in New York surged during the pandemic with more than 67,000 complaints filed statewide in 2020, which was 85 percent more than the previous year and more than […]
THE CITY is co-hosting the candidate face-off with NY1 and WNYC/Gothamist. Adams, Donovan, Garcia, McGuire, Morales, Stringer, Wiley and Yang are set to appear in the potential make-or-break event, which starts at 7 p.m.
Candidate for Mayor of NYC Maya Wiley speaks during Martin Luther King celebration at NAN headquarters. – New York, NY – January 18, 2021 (Shutterstock) By Samantha Maldonado, THE CITY After an endless array of Zoom panels, the eight top contenders in the Democratic mayoral primary are set to square off on TV and radio […]
Police standing on 5th avenue empty city road closure during pandemic coronavirus outbreak. – New York City, New York / USA – March 28, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Rachel Holliday Smith, THE CITY It’s the disaster without a date. You could choose to mark the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis as the day the NBA shuttered, […]
On Tuesday, the 2nd Circuit rejected unions’ appeal to keep NYPD discipline records secret. ProPublica published thousands of those files last year. “The cat is not only out of the bag, it’s running around the streets,” one judge noted then.
By Eric Umansky, ProPublica A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court ruling allowing New York officials to release police discipline records that had been kept secret for decades. In the wake of protests over the killing of George Floyd last spring, New York state repealed its controversial 50-a law that had shielded […]
New York City’s first African American mayor, David Dinkins, has died
David Dinkins, first black New York former mayor has died. – New York, USA 11.24.2020 (Shutterstock) By Deepi Hajela, Associated Press, ABC News NEW YORK — David Dinkins, who broke barriers as New York City’s first African American mayor but was doomed to a single term by a soaring murder rate, stubborn unemployment and his […]
NEW YORK – Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza today announced health and safety protocols, including guidance for testing and tracing, for schools for the start of the 2020-21 school year. These protocols will apply to all school communities and will help prevent the spread of COVID-19. “We are doing everything in our […]
Deputy Inspector Peter Andrea addresses Inwood on June 2 in video from YouTube. Screengrab/Save Dyckman/YouTube By Peter Senzamici, THE CITY The commander of an Inwood police precinct was seen on video unofficially deputizing a group of at least 100 people in a Duane Reade parking lot last week — complete with color-coded armbands — and […]
An example of a mail-in absentee ballot form, which stands to become the go-to election item for next month’s primary. Photo: Linda Parton/Shutterstock By Rachel Holliday Smith, Additional Reporting by Christine Chung, The City For a moment, New York’s moot presidential primary was off. Then it was back on. Now, the state is trying again in […]