Anger among New York elected officials grew Tuesday as more details about a City Council staffer’s arrest a day earlier began to emerge.  On Monday evening the Department of Homeland Security confirmed the arrest of council staffer Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez who worked for the past year as a data analyst in personnel services, according […]

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Eric Adams’ post-mayoral debut in the world of crypto currency ran into a bit of a buzz saw this week, with his new coin, The NYC Token, plunging in value shortly after he announced it as the “future of digital currency” at a frigid Times Square event. The token opened at 60 cents per share […]

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Mount Sinai Hospital fired three nurses via voicemail message on the eve of a massive ongoing strike, a move that amounts to illegal retaliation and intimidation, the New York State Nurses Association said on Tuesday. The three nurses worked in the labor and delivery unit, which has experienced “aggressive anti-union activity,” including disciplining nurses who […]

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Nearly six years after the city’s watchdog warned that the Department of Correction’s paper logbooks were so unreliable they obscured hundreds of violent incidents, jail officials announced Tuesday that they are finally testing a digital replacement.  The pilot, launched last fall in one unit at Rikers Island, marks the agency’s first move toward abandoning handwritten […]

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Yet another top aide to former Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on corruption charges, this one accused by federal prosecutors of demanding kickbacks from vendors for his promises to arrange lucrative municipal contracts. Anthony Herbert, a longtime associate of Adams, was appointed by the then-mayor as his liaison between City Hall and residents and […]

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