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US Tennis Association Sues NYC Over Queens Casino Plan
The United States Tennis Association National Tennis Center sued New York City on Wednesday, accusing the Eric Adams administration of violating the terms of its long-term lease on the National Tennis Center in order to aid Mets owner Steve Cohen in his plans for a nearby Queens casino. The center, which runs the US Open […]
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Brooklyn DA Backs Reduced Sentence for Notorious Child Molester
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez is backing a bid to re-sentence a prominent counselor in the Hasidic Jewish community who was originally sentenced to 103 years in prison for repeatedly abusing an adolescent girl. The move to support leniency for the counselor, Nechemya Weberman, has alarmed advocates for abuse survivors as the long-running case returns […]
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Dozens of Electeds Call on Tisch to OK Disciplinary Proceeding Against Cop in Fatal Shooting
Elected officials, advocates and family members of a 37-year-old man who was gunned down years ago by an off-duty cop urged NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Thursday to let the officer’s disciplinary trial proceed, calling it an important test of her willingness to hold officers accountable. They did so in person outside police headquarters in […]
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Rikers-Reform Fight Awaits Mamdani as Advocates Release Jails ‘Blueprint’
While running to be New York City’s next mayor, Zohran Mamdani pledged to shutter Rikers Island and shrink the city’s jail population. Now, as he prepares to take office in just over a month and a half, a coalition of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, family members and advocates are demanding that Mamdani make good on […]
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Federal Monitor Says It’s Done Overseeing Bronx Youth Jail
After years of oversight, the court-appointed federal monitor for Horizon Juvenile Center said its work at the Bronx youth jail is “complete” in a report issued Friday. The monitoring, required as part of a major civil rights lawsuit settlement known as Nunez in 2015, had initially applied to the Department of Correction to address abuses […]
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