Taxi cab drivers are seeking more than $2.5 billion from the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission, saying they paid artificially inflated prices for their taxi medallions, collectively losing hundreds of millions as a result.
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Areas of Brooklyn with a large Haredi population, such as Borough Park, resisted some measures, including through protests, prompting authorities to intervene and sparking controversy that they were being unfairly targeted.
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U.S. immigration authorities said Thursday they have detained Anna Sorokin, the con artist who passed herself off as a wealthy German heiress and served more than three years behind bars for defrauding New York banks and hotels.
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Finding that New York City had trod on the federal government’s turf, the Second Circuit dismissed a lawsuit seeking to hold Big Oil financially responsible for rising sea levels.
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A parolee convicted of killing his mother nearly two decades ago was arrested on charges including felony assault as a hate crime for attacking an Asian American woman near New York City’s Times Square, police said early Wednesday.
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Rapper and singer Lil Nas X is no stranger to disruption in the music scene. But his Satanic-themed Air Max 97s, made by a Brooklyn company, are too much for Nike.
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An Asian American woman was attacked by a man who repeatedly kicked her in front of witnesses who seemingly stood by, according to surveillance footage released by the New York City Police Department.
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Dozens of New York City landlords and brokers who refused to rent to Section 8 tenants are named in a federal complaint by the Housing Rights Initiative, which says such discriminatory practices have kept thousands of New Yorkers in homeless shelters, substandard housing and high-poverty neighborhoods, with particular harm to people of color and people with disabilities during the pandemic.
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The announcement from Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. comes weeks after the Supreme Court refused to block his subpoena of the former president’s tax records.
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Officials this week unveiled reforms that Mayor Bill de Blasio asserts add up to a groundbreaking abolishment of punishing unruly prisoners by isolating them.
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Saying the lower court must address tactics that obstruct access to a health clinic, the Second Circuit sided with New York and reversed what had been a win for Christian activists.
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Suing to open up New York City’s most elite public academic programs, a group of students and civil rights attorneys paint the existing admissions system as a monument to structural racism.
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The petitioner seeks damages from police who searched home after his sister-in-law mistook his newborn’s diaper rash for something far worse.
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The New York Knicks and the Rangers filed suit against their insurers Friday for refusing to cover losses related to pandemic-related closures that have kept iconic venues like Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall shuttered for roughly a year.
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Transparency advocates are lauding the outcome of the Second Circuit fight.
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Amy Cooper, the white woman arrested last year for calling 911 on a Black birdwatcher in New York’s Central Park, had her criminal case thrown out Tuesday after completing a diversionary counseling program that prosecutors said was meant to educate her on the harm of her actions.
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Homeless advocacy groups sued the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Friday, seeking to block Covid-19 rules that they say effectively ban the homeless from sheltering in New York City subway trains and stations.
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Ordering a review of the potential for renewable energy creation and storage on Rikers Island, the New York City Council moved toward planning what will happen after the massive jail shuts down.
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Upholding the first set of awards to Black and Latino teachers who were given a racially biased literacy test, the Second Circuit found that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in calculating individual damages.
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In a bid to chip away at her six-count criminal indictment, Ghislaine Maxwell lambasted the government’s case on grounds of vagueness and double jeopardy.
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