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A New York City police officer is speaking out against the use of “courtesy cards” by friends and relatives of cops, accusing department leaders of maintaining a sprawling system of impunity that has fueled both reckless driving and racist traffic stops.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has signed legislation that will ban discrimination based on body size by adding weight and height to the list of protected categories such as race, sex and religion.

Before he left the West African nation of his birth, Mohamed read that New York was a place of “open arms."

Democratic leaders in major U.S. cities are finding themselves politically squeezed when it comes to addressing homelessness.

The founder of a nonprofit group has been accused of fabricating a story about homeless military veterans being evicted from a New York hotel to make room for migrants, a tale that stoked days of outrage on cable news networks.

The Democrat who will almost certainly become Philadelphia’s next mayor wants to hire hundreds of additional police officers and says officers should be able to stop and search pedestrians if they have a legitimate reason to do so.

New York City has begun housing asylum seekers in public school gymnasiums.

Around Manhattan and elsewhere in New York City, hotels that served tourists just a few years ago have become de facto emergency shelters.

New York City officials say they will be unable to accommodate an expected influx of asylum-seekers as the federal government's pandemic-era immigration restriction ends.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the death of Jordan Neely at the hands of a fellow subway rider was “a tragedy that never should have happened.”.

Nearly three months ago, Hyundai and Kia unveiled software that was designed to thwart an epidemic of thefts of their vehicles, caused by a security flaw that was exposed on TikTok and other social media sites.

The potential criminal charges against a U.S. Marine veteran who put Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold aboard a New York City subway train might depend on whether a “reasonable” New Yorker would have acted similarly.

A man who had been shouting at people aboard a New York City subway train died after fellow riders tackled him and one put him in a chokehold that lasted until his body went limp.

A growing number of developers are considering converting empty office towers into housing as part of an effort to revive struggling downtown business districts that emptied out during the pandemic.

Search crews have recovered a body from the rubble of a collapsed parking garage in New York City.

One person has been killed and five have been injured in a parking garage collapse in lower Manhattan’s Financial District.

As an ambassador for rats, it’s never easy to win over the public.

Republicans upset with Donald Trump’s indictment are escalating their war on the prosecutor who charged him.

New York Mayor Eric Adams has named a former school teacher as the city's “rat czar,” tasked with leading the battle against the clawed vermin.

New York City officials have unveiled three new high-tech policing devices including a robotic dog that critics called creepy when it first joined the police pack 2 1/2 years ago.

As the world waits to see whether a grand jury indicts former President Donald Trump, crowds of reporters have gathered outside a courthouse in lower Manhattan.

For years, Republicans have sought to win over voters by depicting Democratic-led cities as lawless centers of violence that need tough-on-crime policies.

New York City officials say lithium ion batteries used to power electric bicycles and scooters have already sparked 22 fires that caused 36 injuries and two deaths this year.

The man killed when the driver of a U-Haul truck went on a rampage through Brooklyn was a 44-year-old food delivery worker and single father of three.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has scored a split decision with a hearing officer dismissing one summons while upholding another issued by a city inspector citing him for not doing enough to keep rodents at bay from his Brooklyn townhouse.

Every New York City mayor has battled rats.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Manhattan’s top prosecutor say they will go after landlords who allow hundreds of illicit shops to operate.

New York City is ending its COVID-19 vaccination mandate for municipal employees including police officers, firefighters and teachers.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed dramatic spending to help New York City handle a wave of international migrants and to stabilize its reeling public transit system with her $227 billion state budget Wednesday, even as she warned of tougher economic times ahead.

Protesters and police unions are condemning Memphis police after the public release of video showing five officers savagely beating Tyre Nichols, who later died.

New York City is temporarily turning a cruise ship terminal into a shelter and services hub for asylum-seekers.

New York City's latest weapon in its fight against street noise is a traffic camera equipped with a sound meter.

During a visit to the Texas border city of El Paso, New York Mayor Eric Adams criticized the federal government’s response to the influx of immigrants into U.S. cities.

Denver has been overwhelmed by an unexpected surge in mostly Venezuelan migrants.

Authorities in New York City are investigating whether a man who attacked three police officers with a machete at a New Year’s Eve celebration, striking two of them, was inspired by radical Islamic extremism.

New York police officials say they've captured a city resident they say is responsible for knifing to death a pediatrician in a Manhattan park and another man who had just left a bar in the East Village.

An entryway to Central Park has been dedicated to remember the injustice that imprisoned five Black and Latino teenagers after they were wrongly convicted of the 1989 rape of a white jogger.

A judge will not immediately halt New York City Mayor Eric Adams' plans to force mentally ill people from the streets and into treatment.

New York City’s latest plan to keep mentally ill people from languishing in public is billed as a common-sense strategy to get them help.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is such an enemy of rats that he once called a press conference to demonstrate a contraption for drowning them in poison.

The United States' 988 call service for helping anyone experiencing a mental health emergency is back up and running after a daylong outage.

Hate rats.

The nation’s new 988 hotline, intended to help anyone experiencing a mental health emergency, has been out of service for several hours Thursday.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced a new initiative that would allow authorities to more aggressively intervene to help people in need of mental health treatment.

Mayor Eric Adams said the city needs emergency funding to provide shelter to migrants and other people without housing. He also asked El Paso to stop sending migrants there.

Abbott previously said Eric Adams’ office had not reached out to him about coordinating migrant arrivals in New York City and faced criticism that he was rebuffing efforts from the mayor to communicate.

New York City’s mayor says he plans to erect hangar-sized tents as temporary shelter for thousands of international migrants who have been bused into the Big Apple as part of a campaign by Republican governors to disrupt federal border policies.

In an interview for The Texas Tribune Festival, Adams called the Texas governor’s program shipping migrants to his city “inhumane” and “un-American.”

There are few places in the U.S. with a more deeply ingrained reputation as a refuge for immigrants than New York City.

New York City will lift its private-sector COVID-19 vaccine mandate Nov. 1 but will continue to require city employees to be vaccinated against the virus.

Payment processor Visa Inc. says it plans to start separately categorizing sales at gun shops.

In this week’s epsidoe, we discuss how the busing of migrants to New York is affecting Texas, New York and the migrants themselves.

The policy is an expansion of the governor’s plan to antagonize President Joe Biden over border security by busing migrants entering Texas to Washington, D.C., but research suggests the policy could allow more migrants to stay in the country even longer.

New York City was not initially a destination when the Texas governor began busing asylum-seekers east. That changed after NYC Mayor Eric Adams launched his war of words against Abbott, who’s now sending hundreds to the Big Apple.

In an expansion of the governor’s plan to bus migrants from the Texas border to East Coast cities, 64 asylum-seekers arrived in New York City over the weekend.

Officials in New York City have declared a public health emergency due to the monkeypox outbreak.

Two Republican border-state governors who are investing billions of dollars on immigration enforcement have found indirect support from the Democratic mayors of Washington and New York.

The American Medical Association has called Thursday's Supreme Court ruling a “harmful and deeply disturbing decision.

Experts say installing technology to scan large numbers of people quickly for weapons in the New York City subway would be challenging.

Jon Batiste will kick off a series geared toward the Grammy Museum's public and educational programs in New York City next month.

The deepest fears of some New Yorkers are crawling to the surface as the metropolis continues its recovery from the pandemic.

Looking at the schmoozing guests at the Met Gala cocktail reception, TV host James Corden summed up the scene in a word: “Classy.”.

When smoke bombs and bullets were unleashed on a New York City subway train full of morning commuters, train driver David Artis said his first indication something was wrong was when passengers crowded near his cab door to report the chaos.

Mayor Eric Adams, a former New York City police captain, took office this year with a central focus on making the city feel safe and trying to return it to some sense of normalcy post-pandemic.

The shooting this week of 10 people by a man who deployed smoke grenades and fired at least 33 shots in a commuter-packed Brooklyn subway car was hardly the first time New Yorkers have grappled with an act of violence.

As the year began, New Yorkers shuddered at a subway crime straight out of urban nightmares — the death of a woman shoved onto the tracks under Times Square.

Police say the gunman in the Brooklyn subway shooting fired at least 33 bullets in the rush-hour train, wounding 10 people.

After two years of plague and social disruption, many New Yorkers just want their city to feel orderly again.

Philadelphia has become the first major U.S. city to reinstate its indoor mask mandate after reporting a sharp increase in coronavirus infections.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has tested positive for COVID-19.

New York City officials are planning to remove makeshift shelters set up by homeless people on city streets, mirroring similar efforts in other liberal metropolises that had previously tolerated the encampments.

New York City’s mayor has exempted athletes and performers from the city’s vaccine mandate.

New York city’s mayor will announce Thursday that he’s exempting athletes and performers from the city’s vaccine mandate for private workers.

In his first show since 2019, Ralph Lauren transformed a long room at the Museum of Modern Art into a cozy salon Tuesday night to debut a moneyed collection of mostly black and white for men and women.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is preparing to lift requirements that children under age 5 wear face masks in school.

Coronavirus restrictions in Canada and New York have assured that baseball will again be affected by COVID-19 in 2022.

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New York City and Los Angeles are lifting some of their strictest COVID-19 prevention measures as officials in big cities around the U.S. push for a return to normalcy after two grueling years of the pandemic.

An important milestone in New York City’s progress against COVID-19 could soon arrive when Mayor Eric Adams lifts mask mandates in schools and vaccination requirements in restaurants, bars and theaters.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says the statewide school masking requirement will be lifted by March 2.

The mother of Trayvon Martin is marking the 10th anniversary of her son’s death by thanking those who sought justice for her family and urging them to continue to fight.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is making an aggressive push to try to remove homeless people from the city’s sprawling subway system, announcing a plan to start barring people from sleeping on trains and or riding the same lines all night.

The mayor's race in Los Angeles is being dominated by a homeless crisis and rising crime rates.

Michael Kors' Fall/Winter 2022 collection is a celebration of a place near and dear to his heart: New York City.

There was something fishy about New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ declarations that he’s a vegan.

Gun violence was already on the rise during the pandemic, and now it's spiking anew, and cities are struggling with how to manage it.

President Joe Biden is pledging to New Yorkers and the nation that the federal government will step up its fight against gun violence by working more closely with police and communities to stop the surging bloodshed.

Officers massed by the thousands on Fifth Avenue for New York City's second police funeral in less than a week.

A string of high-profile violence in New York City has frayed nerves, but the nation's largest city remains relatively safe.

New York City police officers have given a final salute to a rookie colleague gunned down with his partner a week ago.

Three random killings and three homeless men charged with the crimes have reignited anger, fear and frustration with the intractable issue of homelessness in New York and Los Angeles.

The White House says President Joe Biden will travel to New York City next week to discuss combating gun crime with Mayor Eric Adams.

A city reeling from a spate of violence is preparing to lay to rest a rookie police officer killed last week.

The 22-year-old New York City police officer who was shot to death while responding to a call in a Harlem apartment once wrote that he joined the force to make a difference in the “chaotic city.”.

Officials say a New York City police officer has been killed and another critically wounded in a shooting in Harlem.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams plans to convert his first paycheck this week into two cryptocurrencies.

Cardi B has offered to pay the burial costs for all 17 people killed in a fire in a New York City high-rise.

Police say a woman was pushed to her death in front of a subway train by a homeless man at New York's Times Square station.

Eric Adams has stepped into the roles of cheerleader and crisis manager in his first weeks as New York City mayor while facing questions about early controversies of his own making.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is considering allowing the nation’s largest school district to return to some form of virtual instruction as the city weathers a wave of coronavirus cases.