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Eric Adams’ Unpaid Legal Bills Tied to Federal Indictment Climb to $4.5 Million
Even with his federal criminal case dismissed over six months ago, Mayor Eric Adams has seen his legal bills continue to climb — leaving a trust he set up under city rules to pay those bills with over $4.5 million in unpaid expenses, according to the latest filings. Adams set up a trust that in […]
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Officer Found Guilty in Robert Brooks’ Murder as Calls Grow to Overhaul Prison Oversight
A jury on Monday convicted a former state correction officer of second-degree murder — and acquitted two other former officers — in the killing of Robert Brooks, an incarcerated man beaten to death last year inside Marcy Correctional Facility upstate. The verdict against David Kingsley, one of three officers on trial, marks the second conviction […]
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154,000 NYC Students Were Homeless Last School Year, Another Record High
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. More than 150,000 New York City students experienced homelessness last year, setting yet another record high according to new data obtained by the nonprofit Advocates for Children. The staggering total, which includes students who lived in shelters along with those doubled up with family or friends, […]
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Dan Goldman Asks NYPD to Bust Feds if They Step out of Line
Rep. Dan Goldman is calling on the NYPD to arrest and even charge federal agents working in the city if they break New York’s laws. In a letter sent to NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and first reported here, the Democratic congressmember representing parts of Brooklyn and lower Manhattan points to recent reporting in ProPublica […]
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LISTEN: The Weird, Wacky World of Drew Friedman’s Drawings
The legendary illustrator talks with LIT NYC hosts Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel about what he wants to illustrate now that he no longer needs to take assignments, how New York City shaped his work, why he thinks being called the “Vermeer of the Borscht Belt” (the title of the new documentary about him) is […]
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