“I’m not the most pro-police guy,” he acknowledged in an interview later. In May 2020, Mr. LaFauci protested in Brooklyn after the police in Minnesota killed George Floyd. He later claimed in a lawsuit against the city that the officers had broken his hand with a baton before arresting him. The Brooklyn district attorney declined … Read more
The State Police are investigating the death of a prisoner over the weekend in a facility near the central New York prison where another inmate was fatally beaten by guards in December. Prison officials said on Saturday that an inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in Marcy, N.Y., near Utica, was pronounced dead … Read more
The Woodbridge, N.J., location of SeaQuest, an interactive aquarium and animal attraction that promotes encounters between people and wildlife, was raided by New Jersey state officials on Thursday, after regulators said a lengthy investigation showed it had repeatedly violated animal protection laws. In a statement, the Fish and Wildlife Division of the state’s Department of … Read more
Squeezed In Dear Diary: It was June 2016, and I was on my way to my first 9-to-5 job in Midtown. I boarded a crowded 1 train at 135th and Broadway and then gingerly made my way onto an even more crowded express at 96th Street. It was clear that no one really wanted to … Read more
The taco joint just around the corner from Corona Plaza, the beating heart of one of New York City’s largest Latin American neighborhoods, fell quiet in the days after President Trump was inaugurated. The restaurant’s Mexican waitress, who is undocumented, witnessed federal immigration authorities arrest someone a few blocks from the plaza, and now limits … Read more
For months, the race for mayor of New York City has felt stuck in suspended animation. Not anymore. The contest was expected to lurch into motion on Sunday with a new front-runner: former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. He, Mayor Eric Adams and seven fellow Democrats will face off in a four-month fight to Primary Day. … Read more
A New York diamond dealer pleaded guilty on Thursday to stealing more than $400,000 worth of diamonds from two sellers and replacing them with cheaper lab-grown stones in a scheme he operated out of a Manhattan storefront. The dealer, Manashe Sezanayev, 41, who owned Rachel’s Diamonds, a jewelry store in the heart of the borough’s … Read more
A majority of New York City’s Commission on Gender Equity called on Friday for Mayor Eric Adams to resign if he does not lay out a strategy for defending transgender New Yorkers, women and immigrants against the Trump administration’s threats to those groups’ rights. Sixteen commissioners appointed by Mr. Adams said in a letter that … Read more
Hazel N. Dukes, an early and unwavering crusader for civil rights who survived personal, professional and political setbacks to serve for nearly a half-century as the perennial president of New York State’s N.A.A.C.P., died on Saturday at her home in Harlem. She was 92. Her death was announced by her son, Ronald. From 1990 to … Read more
In the months before he joined New York City’s mayoral race, Andrew M. Cuomo sought to create as much distance as possible from the sexual harassment scandal that forced him to resign as governor more than three years ago. But with his entry on Saturday, some of his challengers in the race and the women … Read more