Two New York police officers were suspended after chasing a stolen SUV that was found engulfed in flames early Wednesday morning with the driver dead inside, officials said. The incident in Upper Manhattan is being reviewed by the Police Department’s force investigation unit and the state attorney general’s office, which are both charged with looking … Read more
One Democratic primary candidate, State Senator Zellnor Myrie, cut a video offering himself as an antidote to the perceived political chaos. Others warned that Mr. Adams was undermining his party’s chances in November. And a centrist lawyer who is running as an independent, Jim Walden, quickly challenged the mayor to a debate. New York City … Read more
Robert S. Rifkind, who played a pivotal role in successfully defending Time magazine against a $50 million libel suit filed by Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli general, defense minister and later prime minister, died on March 12 at his home in Manhattan. He was 88. The cause was complications of myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, … Read more
A Queens man posing as a doctor was charged with assault and practicing medicine without a license after a woman went into cardiac arrest during a botched cosmetic surgery at a makeshift home clinic, according to an internal police report. The man, Felipe Hoyos Foronda, 38, tried to flee the United States after the woman … Read more
A violent felon whose sentence was commuted by President Trump was arrested Friday and charged with violating the terms of his supervised release after he was accused of a string of crimes that included assaulting a 3-year-old child. The man, Jonathan Braun, was arraigned in Federal District Court in Brooklyn before Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto. … Read more
Columbia University students have long had a basic understanding about their relationship with the school’s Public Safety Department. Unlike at most American universities, which employ a full-fledged police force, Columbia’s public safety officers rarely, if ever, touch students. No longer. A new, more assertive stance was on display on Wednesday, as the university’s officers intervened … Read more
Federal District Judge Dale E. Ho on Wednesday issued a 78-page ruling that dismissed the criminal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York. In his decision, Judge Ho granted a motion by the Justice Department to drop the charges but denied its request to allow them to be resurrected later, saying that doing … Read more
On Wednesday the judge, Dale Ho, gave Adams what he wanted, a dismissal of the charges. That was also what the Trump administration wanted, though it preferred that the charges be dismissed with the right to bring them back, which the judge refused. That — and Adams’s apparent chumminess with the president — made some … Read more
Two women accused in Brooklyn of mistreating employees of their “orgasmic meditation” group argued that key evidence against them had been concocted for a true-crime documentary and had it thrown out of court. The women, Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz, won a major pretrial decision in March when prosecutors said in court papers that they … Read more
The Ex-Convict Who Turned Down Columbia’s Ph.D. Offer