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Top Adams Deputy Shouldn’t Have Been Cleared to Rep MSG, Probe Finds
First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro’s side gig representing the owners of Madison Square Garden in their fight against a former Knicks player was approved by the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board, but legally shouldn’t have been, a new report from the Department of Investigation found. The March 18 advisory opinion to Mastro — who hadn’t […]
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‘They Treated Me Like I Was Nothing:’ Rikers Detainee Alleges Sexual Assault
A former Rikers Island detainee has filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit accusing two city correction officers of sexually assaulting him during a retaliatory strip search, pepper-spraying him at close range and dragging him half-naked through his cell block. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Manhattan federal court, was brought by Kyle Knight, 29, who was a […]
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Meta Lets Subway Surfing Videos ‘Live for Too Long,’ MTA Boss Says
The head of the MTA warned Wednesday that tech giant Meta needs to “get on the stick” about taking down social media videos of subway-surfing daredevils riding on top of trains. With five deaths so far in 2025 from subway surfing, Lieber singled out Instagram — operated by Meta — as the platform where “subway […]
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Drug Gang Besieged East Harlem NYCHA Building, Federal Prosecutors Charge
For more than three years, public housing tenants of the James Weldon Johnson Houses in East Harlem have lived in a state of terror wrought by a crew of narcotics dealers who transformed their NYCHA development into an open-air drug market, prosecutors alleged Wednesday. The dealers took over the lobby of one building at Johnson […]
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Mamdani Taps Union Leader as Liaison to State and Federal Governments
A longtime union leader has been tapped to run incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, which will play a crucial role in building political support for some of his biggest — and costliest — campaign promises. Jahmila Edwards was announced at a library in Greenpoint on Wednesday as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, overseeing […]
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