The head of Brooklyn’s vaunted Conviction Review Unit has left to create a small law firm specializing in wrongful conviction cases.  Charles Linehan, 54, quietly resigned Jan. 17 after a three-year stint in charge of the 16-person unit that has garnered national headlines for the Brooklyn district attorney’s office.  During Linehan’s tenure, the unit exonerated […]

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A onetime senior aide to Mayor Eric Adams who was charged with organizing an illegal straw donor scheme for the mayor has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office revealed Friday. Mohamed Bahi, formerly one of the mayor’s liaisons to the Muslim community, was initially charged in October with witness tampering […]

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This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. New York state is shuttering all live bird markets in New York City, as well as in Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk counties, for the next week, following the recent detection of bird flu among some poultry in city markets. During a virtual briefing on […]

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A new Dominican Historic District in Washington Heights is officially on the National Register of Historic Places, despite pushback from parts of the community who say they were left out of the designation process. When a state board voted to pass on the nomination to the national level in September, it happened at a contentious […]

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An extension of the controversial state film and TV tax credit, sweetening the pot for producers who spend more money in New York. A new tax break to entice companies to lease space in older office buildings and an extension of a city tax credit designed to lure companies to the boroughs outside Manhattan. A […]

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