The Latest News about New York City

Amazon is reportedly rethinking its promise to build a headquarters in New York City after receiving pushback from local officials and residents, sources told The Washington Post. New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio are pushing the Amazon deal after being instrumental in securing it. Many locals have protested at stores and hearings and the ...

The New York Police Department demanded that Google’s GPS navigation app Waze stop helping drivers avoid DUI checkpoints. Waze allows users to upload GPS data of police locations. The uploads don’t specify that the police presence is a DUI checkpoint, but users can go to the Waze live map to see comments that may indicate that where a checkpoint is. ...

New York City hiked its minimum wage for the third time in three years on Jan. 1 and small business owners are struggling to adapt to the steadily increasing labor costs. New York City’s minimum wage rose to $15 an hour for all employers with more than 10 employees at the start of 2019. Small businesses have set about adapting ...

New York residents may now change their birth certificates to reflect a neutral gender identity after an October bill became effective on the first day of the new year. The New York City Council first passed the bill in September allowing any adult living in the city to change his or her gender to “X” on their birth certificate. The ...

The iconic New Year’s Eve ball drop in New York City’s Times Square first occurred on Dec. 31, 1907 — 111 years ago. The first New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square, however, started in 1904 at the then-new headquarters of The New York Times in Times Tower, according to Times Square’s website. It was just without dropping the ball. ...

Asian American parents and civil rights groups filed a lawsuit to stop a Bill de Blasio supported diversity plan for New York City high schools. The plan aims to give 20 percent of seats to students who miss the cut-off scores to get into elite schools. Opponents of the plan say it disproportionately hurts Asian American students. Asian American parents ...

Outcries have grown louder after a video of New York police officers subduing a mother and wrestling her child away went viral Monday. The video portrays roughly three New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers struggling to pull a child from a woman’s arm at a social services facility, ABC News reported Monday. The woman, Jazmine Headley, 23, can be heard screaming, “You’re ...

A New York school board announced Tuesday that more than 200 scores were changed for students by high school administrators. An investigation conducted by private firm T&M Protection Resources found New Rochelle High School’s (NRHS) House Principal Shadia Alvarez and former Principal Reginald Richardson tampered with students’ grades, according to the report. The school used Apex Learning, a for-profit online ...

Police are investigating four reported attacks on Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn that occurred in less than a week, stirring anxiety among Brooklyn’s Jews as Hanukkah begins. Police said the first of the weekend’s reported attacks happened Friday evening at approximately 6:40 p.m. when an unidentified man punched an Orthodox Jewish man in the back of the head, yelled “Blah,” and ran ...

The New York City Council passed a resolution Wednesday demanding the federal government abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) just one day after the agency arrested 16 sexual predators, who were also aliens, in the city. The resolution, which passed in a voice vote, says, “ICE, under the direction of President [Donald] Trump, has demonstrated an inability to fulfil ...

Four alleged members of an international criminal gang were charged with the attempted murder of a 16-year-old teen which left the victim paralyzed, according to a statement by the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Eastern District of New York on Friday Melvi Amador-Rios, Santos Amador-Rios, Yan Carlos Ramirez and Antonio Salvador, all members of MS-13, a savage El Salvadoran gang, were charged ...

Despite efforts by New York City officials to shield illegal aliens from capture, officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement‘s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 65 during a 5-day period, ending July 20 in New York City, and on Long Island. During the operation, ICE’s ERO arrested 65 individuals for violating U.S. immigration laws. 64 of those arrested had been previously ...

  by Michael Bastasch A federal judge tossed out a lawsuit brought against five major oil companies by New York City that demanded compensation for the alleged damages from man-made global warming. “The Court recognizes that the City, and many other governmental entities around the United States and in other nations, will be forced to grapple with the harmful impacts of ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in New York conducted a three-month review of detainers lodged with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and New York Department of Corrections (NYDOC) to determine the type of criminal aliens who have been released from custody without ICE being notified.  Detainers are ICE’s request to a local ...

Ahead of peak rental season, apartment shoppers can expect to see slightly higher rent prices than last year, particularly in areas with lower-priced homes, according to StreetEasy’s April 2018 Market Reportsi. However, those searching for rentals at higher price points and in areas of the city with large quantities of new development are likely to have greater negotiating power. In Manhattan, rents increased in ...