Drawing the battle lines for a bail hearing next Tuesday, attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell proposed a $5 million bond in a memo attempting to distinguish their client from the man behind the child sex-trafficking scandal of global notoriety.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio grabbed a roller Thursday to paint “Black Lives Matter” in front of the namesake Manhattan tower of President Donald Trump, who tweeted last week that the street mural would be “a symbol of hate.”
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New York City’s 1.1 million public school students will not return to their classrooms full-time in September, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday, unveiling plans for a “blended learning” model that balances online teaching with in-person classes two or three days a week.
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For a particularly tense span of roughly two weeks at the height of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, New York City police officers arrested more than a 2,000 protesting racial injustice.
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The New York City Board of Health voted in a virtual meeting Tuesday to reopen 3,000 child care centers that have been closed since early April, in the latest sign that the Big Apple is getting back to work after months of coronavirus-driven shutdowns.
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As the virus rages in other parts of the county, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo delayed the opening of indoor dining in the city.
Read moreMANHATTAN (CN) — Anticipating a $9 billion shortfall from lost revenue evaporated by the coronavirus shutdown, New York City lawmakers
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Former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman has all but ended Congressman Eliot Engel’s three-decade tenure in the House of Representatives, with two independent election watchers declaring the stunning upset Wednesday.
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Over in New York City, Queens represented the worst-struck borough of the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, but that did not prevent voters from turning out in droves to participate in the democratic process for an important primary election.
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New York’s last primary election produced the political earthquake of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unseating a congressman who served for two decades in the House of Representatives to become one of the most powerful freshman Democratic representatives in memory.
Read moreThe statue depicts Teddy Roosevelt on horseback towering over a black man and a Native American. The American Museum of
Read moreWhile daily demonstrations and protests continue across New York City into the fourth week after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, thousands of Brooklynites supporting the Black Lives Matter movement peacefully took to the streets on Friday to celebrate the Juneteenth.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) — Bragging that New York state now has the lowest rate of Covid-19 transmission in the U.S.,
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MANHATTAN (CN) — In-store retail is coming back to New York City next week, Mayor de Blasio announced Thursday, certifying
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Ramping up police reforms, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a mandate Wednesday for the NYPD to disclose Internal Affairs Bureau decisions.
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Any time a New York City police shooting leads to the injury or death of a civilian, the NYPD must publicly release footage from officers’ body-worn cameras within a month, Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered Tuesday.
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Experts are calling it the worst year in the history of aviation, but New York grasped at some normalcy Wednesday as Governor Andrew Cuomo cut a ribbon at a new LaGuardia Airport concourse.
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If any one slogan animates the Black Lives Matter protests across the nation, it is the command: “Say his name,” a reminder that the parade of victims killed by police had identities, families and people who love them.
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Just 1% of New Yorkers tested positive for the coronavirus as of Tuesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced with jubilation Tuesday, two months after the city hit its high of 71% confirmed infections.
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Speaking outside of the New York Police Department’s headquarters in lower Manhattan, Democratic officials joined Black Lives Matter activists Monday to say moderate reform efforts are toothless unless police can be held accountable for misconduct by an elected, independent oversight board.
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