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Supporters Cheer as Council Member Who Bit Cop Appears in Court
A crowd of supporters cheered Brooklyn Councilmember Susan Zhuang as she exited a routine court hearing Tuesday in her criminal case for allegedly biting a police officer at a protest in her district against a forthcoming homeless shelter. Zhuang pleaded not guilty in July to second degree assault and other charges, and on Tuesday morning […]
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Mayor Eric Adams Dodges Legal Questions While Shuffling Chairs
At his weekly press conference Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams again brushed aside questions about his legal troubles while setting ground rules for what he would and would not answer amid federal investigations into him and his administration. After spending much of the briefing balking at questions on campaign finance and his investigations, Adams — who […]
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Migrant Artists Find Light in the Darkness at Brooklyn Shelter
Marcos Ferreira Batista, 44, hadn’t sketched in more than a decade. But as he settled into a new city while living at a sprawling migrant shelter in Clinton Hill, he felt compelled to draw again, tormented by the faces of migrants whose paths he’d crossed on his two-month long journey from Chile to the United […]
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In Last Days as NYPD Commissioner, Caban Nixed Penalty Against Cop Who Body-Slammed Protestor
The video shows a stocky NYPD sergeant in a riot helmet forcefully shoving a female protester backward, sending her flying through the air. Seconds later, the sergeant approaches a male protester from behind, picks him off the ground in a bear hug and slams him head-first into the street. More than four years after those […]
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LISTEN: Adams Attempts an Admin Reboot
In the midst of a great season for New York sports, Eric Adams is racing to rebuild his organization on the fly while investigators are closing in on him and his inner circle. Is there some reason to trust the process now that most of the top officials recently raided by the FBI have been pushed […]
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