Tag Archives: NYC

Gothamist reports:  The city Department of Buildings has issued vacate orders on three additional garages Wednesday as part of a targeted enforcement sweep since a Manhattan parking garage partially collapsed last month, killing one person. A garage in the East Village was ordered to fully vacate and two others in the Lower East Side and Bed-Stuy were ordered to partially …

New York City’s ABC affiliate reports: The woman arrested for allegedly setting fire to a gay pride flag outside a Manhattan restaurant, an incident caught on camera, was found mentally unfit for trial. Angelina Cando, who is charged with hate crimes, appeared briefly in court Tuesday. Her case was adjourned to May 9 for the Manhattan district attorney’s office to …

New York City’s ABC affiliate reports: The MTA is the latest organization to take a step back from Twitter. Although the MTA will still be active on Twitter, it will no longer provide service alerts and information through the platform. “The MTA has terminated posting service information to Twitter, effective immediately, as the reliability of the platform can no longer …

ABC News reports: The Manhattan district attorney’s office has asked the judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump to prevent him from publicizing evidence obtained during discovery. In a new motion, prosecutors said Trump’s defense attorneys “will not consent to a protective order” so they asked the judge to impose one. Prosecutors said they want to make …

The New York Daily News reports: A four-story garage collapsed Tuesday afternoon, killing one person, injuring five others and sending lower Manhattan into chaos, according to emergency officials. The structure at Ann and William streets “pancaked” just after 4 p.m., Buildings Commissioner Kazimir Vilenchik said at a press conference near the scene. The upper floors packed with cars crumbled, sending …

New York City’s CBS affiliate reports: Emergency responders have rushed to the scene after a collapse at a parking garage in Lower Manhattan Tuesday afternoon. It happened shortly after 4 p.m. at Ann Street near Nassau Street in the Financial District. FDNY officials say several people are injured and others may be trapped. Video from the scene showed multiple cars …

ABC News reports: The final curtain came down Sunday on New York’s production of “The Phantom of the Opera,” ending Broadway’s longest-running show with thunderous standing ovations, champagne toasts and gold and silver confetti bursting from its famous chandelier. It was show No. 13,981 at the Majestic Theatre and it ended with a reprise of “The Music of the Night” …

The Associated Press reports: New York City officials unveiled three new high-tech policing devices Tuesday, including a robotic dog that critics called creepy when it first joined the police pack 2 1/2 years ago. The new devices, which also include a GPS tracker for stolen cars and a cone-shaped security robot, will be rolled out in a manner that is …

Upper East Site reports: In a victory for free speech, a Manhattan judge has dismissed a $3 million lawsuit against Upper East Site brought by The Comic Strip, the iconic Upper East Side comedy venue whose antisemitic and anti-vaccination social media post last year embroiled the venue in controversy. The judge even went as far to say that allowing the …

ABC News reports: Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to return to New York City Thursday to sit for a second deposition as part of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ $250 million civil fraud lawsuit, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. Trump previously sat for an hourslong deposition in August, prior to James filing her lawsuit that …

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: The New York City skyline has never been more beautiful—and meaningful—than it was in this 1956 Good Friday photo. Skyscrapers lit up with the cross to acknowledge the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ and our nation’s long and deep foundation of faith and dependence on Him. In God We Trusted. How heartbreaking and deeply …

Gothamist reports: The COVID-19 pandemic shortened average life expectancy for New Yorkers by more than four years, hitting the city’s minority populations hardest, according to a report released on Friday. The study by the city’s health department looked at trends in births and deaths in New York City during 2020, the year when COVID-19 arrived. The analysis found that from …

The Daily Mail reports: Donald Trump has demanded that the Stormy Daniels hush money case be moved from Manhattan to the more Republican-friendly Staten Island. The former president tore into the judge’s supposed anti-Trump sentiment on Truth Social and said the new location would be ‘very fair and secure’, as protesters and the world’s media swarmed the Manhattan court where …

NBC News reports: Donald Trump has arrived at the New York City courthouse where he was arrested and will be arraigned later Tuesday on dozens of charges related to hush money payments — the first time in American history that a former president will face criminal charges. Trump arrived at the courthouse at 100 Centre St. in Lower Manhattan in …

Reuters reports: Beefing up his legal team, Trump hired Todd Blanche, a prominent white-collar criminal defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor, to lead his defense, two sources familiar with the matter said. Blanche and other Trump lawyers on Monday urged the judge not to allow videography, photography and radio coverage of the arraignment. In a letter to the court, they …

The New York Young Republicans Club has announced that they’ll be holding a Tuesday rally in downtown Manhattan around the time that Trump is expected to surrender himself to authorities. Announced attendees so far include Marjorie Taylor Greene, Pizzagate extremist Jack Posobiec, and far-right podcaster Graham Allen, who last year briefly ran for the US House in South Carolina. The …

New York City’s CW affiliate reports: Top brass at the NYPD issued a memo on Thursday instructing all officers to wear their uniforms and prepare for mobilization following the Manhattan grand jury indictment of former President Donald Trump. The internal NYPD memo, obtained by PIX11 News, stated that officers of all ranks should perform their duties in uniform and be …

The New York Times reports: A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald J. Trump on Thursday for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to four people with knowledge of the matter, a historic development that will shake up the 2024 presidential race and forever mark him as the nation’s first former president to face …

Politico reports: The Manhattan grand jury examining Donald Trump’s alleged role in a hush money payment to a porn star isn’t expected to hear evidence in the case for the next month largely due to a previously scheduled hiatus, according to a person familiar with the proceedings. The break would push any indictment of the former president to late April …

Politico reports: A Donald Trump supporter protesting the Manhattan district attorney’s probe of the former president pulled a knife on a family with two small children Tuesday outside Manhattan Criminal Court, according to a court official. The man and woman with two children in strollers accidentally bumped into the Trump supporter while crossing the intersection of Hogan Place and Centre …