The highest-ranking member of the New York City Council introduced a bill Thursday to repeal the city’s own conversion therapy ban, in a political chess move he says will not restrict the rights of LGBTQ New Yorkers who live in the five boroughs.
Read moreDozens of activists, some of whom label themselves the Friends of Fort Greene Park, packed a Manhattan courtroom Tuesday morning for oral arguments on the legality of a proposed renovation plan for the historic Brooklyn green space.
Read moreLodging his second federal complaint from behind bars Friday, former pharmaceutical wunderkind Martin Shkreli is taking aim at a man who testified against him at his securities fraud trial.
Read moreA municipal land-use hearing doubled as a highly charged referendum on the criminal-justice system Thursday as New Yorkers testified about plans to close down the notorious Rikers Island penal complex and open smaller jails in four boroughs.
Read moreNew York City sued T-Mobile USA, MetroPCS New York et al. in New York County Supreme Court, claiming they sell used phones as new, charge for fake taxes and unasked-for services, enroll users in financing plans without consent and misrepresent a “30-day guarantee.”
Read moreShortly before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in federal prison, a federal court unsealed a vast trove of files implicating heads of state, elected officials and other elite figures in the wealthy financier’s sex-trafficking web. This list could radically expand should the remainder of sealed files become public, a federal judge heard Wednesday.
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New York City’s nearly year-long measles outbreak has finally come to an end, the city announced Tuesday, just in time for back to school.
Read moreNew York City prosecutors secured a one-month delay Tuesday of a nightclub-groping trial that had been set to begin this morning against the actor Cuba Gooding Jr.
Read moreA developer on the hook for $7 million after he painted over graffiti that had turned a collection of Queens warehouse buildings into the icon that was 5Pointz struggled Friday to secure a reversal from the Second Circuit.
Read moreMore than a dozen victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse network gave voice to their traumatic stories in New York federal court Tuesday, two weeks after the finance tycoon hanged himself while awaiting trial in the neighboring jail.
Read moreAs New York’s mayor continues his presidential bid, a school-diversity group he commissioned laid out a radical plan Tuesday to eliminate gifted and screening programs that disproportionately fail to include black and Latino students.
Read moreDisgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was arraigned for the fourth time Monday following new sex-abuse charges in New York City.
Read moreMonths after the Metropolitan Correctional Center was celebrated for keeping hold of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán — the drug lord who famously broke out twice from maximum-security prisons in Mexico — Jeffrey Epstein’s reported suicide there embroils a criminal probe that implicates some of the most powerful men in the world in child sex trafficking.
Read moreIn the U.S. justice system, federal prosecutors typically have the exclusive power to charge people with crimes, but unknown to most of the public, there are a vanishingly small number of exceptions.
Read moreIn the wake of Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide, federal prosecutors in New York have shifted their focus to possible charges against anyone who assisted or enabled him in his rampant sexual abuse of underage girls.
Read moreThe mother of an epileptic transgender woman whose jailhouse death sparked outrage over conditions at Rikers Island brought a federal lawsuit Monday against New York City.
Read moreJeffrey Epstein died in an apparent suicide before he could stand trial, but the investigation and litigation over his alleged sex-trafficking empire shows no signs of abating.
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The details of how Jeffrey Epstein died in his Manhattan jail cell over the weekend have yet to be released, but medical officials performed an autopsy on the high-profile inmate accused of sexually abusing underage girls for years.
Read moreA former chief of staff for a New York assemblyman appeared before a federal judge Thursday on charges that he stole about $80,000 from the campaign war chest.
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