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Notorious Rikers Detainee Slashes Two Guards
Two Emergency Services Unit correction officers were slashed by a detainee with a long history of violence during a routine transfer at Rikers Island Wednesday night. Oliver Sundance, 30, used a one-inch ceramic scalpel blade — a weapon scanning devices are unable to detect — to attack the two officers at the North Infirmary Command […]
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School Safety Agents to Be Overseen by NYPD’s First Deputy Commissioner
After considering shifting oversight of school safety agents to the office of Chief of Department John Chell, the NYPD is instead placing the division under the office of first deputy commissioner Tania Kinsella, department officials and a department source said. The decision was finalized after THE CITY reported last week, based on multiple sources, that […]
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How Jesse Hamilton Held on at Eric Adams’ City Hall
An hour after pleading not guilty to corruption charges in a ninth floor courtroom of Manhattan Supreme Court last week, Jesse Hamilton handed in his resignation as deputy commissioner for real estate at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS). He’d just been hit with an indictment alleging that he’d conspired with Ingrid Lewis-Martin — […]
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Feds Promise Faster Penn Station Renovations Now as Trump Priority
Federal Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pledged Wednesday that the massive overhaul of Penn Station — wrested away from the state of New York earlier this year — will “move at the speed of Trump” once it starts in 2027. Standing outside an entrance to the country’s busiest rail station, Duffy said the federal government’s April […]
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Judge Extends Restraining Order Limiting Capacity in ICE’s Manhattan Lockup
A federal judge has extended a temporary restraining order that was set to expire this week that dramatically limits the number of people immigration enforcement can hold inside its detention area on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza. The order — which mandates basic sanitary conditions inside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement lockup and […]
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