Two top Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have begun an investigation into the Justice Department’s request to drop federal criminal charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York. They accused the department of covering up a quid pro quo agreement between the Trump administration and the mayor. In a letter on Sunday to Attorney … Read more
Senate Democrats on Tuesday asked a New York committee that disciplines lawyers to investigate whether the acting deputy attorney general violated rules of professional conduct by demanding that prosecutors abandon a corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York City. The request, filed by the 10 Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked the … Read more
After fentanyl sickened three toddlers and killed a fourth at the Divino Niño day care, its proprietor, Grei Mendez, professed to be caught up in a bewildering catastrophe. She told investigators at a police precinct in 2023 that she had no idea how narcotics had gotten into the day care, which she ran out of … Read more
Selwyn Raab, an investigative reporter for The New York Times and other news organizations who in exacting detail explored the Mafia’s many tentacles, and whose doggedness helped lead to the exoneration of men wrongly convicted of notorious 1960s killings, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 90. His son-in-law, Matthew Goldstein, a Times reporter, said … Read more
As the speaker of the New York City Council, Adrienne Adams’s annual State of the City address would typically be seen as a blueprint for the Council’s agenda in the coming year. But her speech on Tuesday carried far more weight. Ms. Adams formed a campaign committee to run for mayor last week, in preparation … Read more
“Mamma Mia!” is returning to Broadway this summer after a decade away. The big-hearted musical, which combined Abba songs and abs to become a huge hit onstage and then on film, is scheduled to start previews on Aug. 2 at the Winter Garden Theater — where it spent much of its original run. The opening … Read more
Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll get an update on sensors that can tell when trucks on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway are overweight. We’ll also get details on a guilty plea by a teacher at a Brooklyn prep school who was accused of soliciting lewd photos and videos from students on Snapchat. Almost no one ever … Read more
A federal judge overseeing the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City is weighing two distinct proposals on how to fix the city’s troubled and violent lockups. For nearly a decade, the judge, Laura Taylor Swain, has been monitoring the city’s jails to keep them in compliance with a court order to overhaul Rikers. … Read more
In 2022, Gov. Kathy Hochul pitched a $200 million effort to help small business owners with marijuana convictions open New York’s first licensed cannabis dispensaries. State lawmakers approved $50 million to help the program, known as the Cannabis Social Equity Investment Fund, begin leasing and renovating stores that were supposed to open the following year. … Read more
At Adirondack Correctional Facility near the Canadian border, the job of delivering meals to hungry inmates fell suddenly to the prison’s superintendent and its teachers and counselors. At Auburn Correctional Facility in central New York, two ailing men died after not receiving medical care quickly enough. At Sing Sing Correctional Facility north of New York … Read more