Remember the guy who was charged with making terroristic threats after making menacing phone calls to the mayor's former district office? He pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor, avoiding the 60 years in prison he once faced
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A wrongfully convicted defendant, a legally blind eyewitness, and hours of testimony from long dead police officers – a strange murder trial is underway in Queens.
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The founder and ED of Brooklyn Defenders, Lisa Schreibersdorf, will retire at the end of the year. Schreibersdorf's departure comes amid ongoing tensions between her and the attorneys' union, which accused her of illegally attempting to break them up
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Scoop: NYC’s brand-new casino, Resorts World Queens, is already disputing how much money it owes to the state — and is pushing legislation in Albany that could avert well over half a billion dollars in payments:
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Oh no: somebody stole nine brass basins from the water fountains in Prospect Park and it's going to cost $100,000 to undo the damage https://t.co/xNJ0RbC7QF
NY Senate Judiciary Chair Luis Sepulveda said he's not planning to put up a bill to expand the judicial cap for a committee vote, effectively meaning it has no way forward until 2029 at the earliest.
A city probe into allegations that Rikers officers routinely locked severely mentally ill detainees in their cells for days or weeks found the claims could not be substantiated — while also citing missing video footage and uncooperative witnesses.
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Steve Cohen’s New York Mets are off to a slow start this season – and so is his $8 billion casino project, which is already more than five months behind schedule.
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NEW from me today: Congressional candidate Chuck Park, who is challenging Queens Rep. Grace Meng from the left, never filed a personal financial disclosure for 2025, House Clerk records show. https://t.co/GXm4p6avw4
NEW: The federal official overseeing reforms at Rikers Island has hired back the former DOC investigations chief pushed out shortly after Mayor Eric Adams took office. @TownsendSarena will oversee misconduct probes and discipline cases.
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Big change on Rikers. Alleged abuses by officers will be investigated by a new division that falls directly under the authority of the new remediation manager. The DOC has long had issues with its internal investigations.
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New: The city’s Correction Department is set to renew a multimillion-dollar contract with a prison telecom giant that’s bragged of using recordings of detainees’ private phone calls to train its artificial intelligence model.
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CM Lincoln Restler's wife works for the mayor at OMB and other council members think they should know that, @SahalieD reports:
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The city has begun developing a pair of pilot programs to implement parts of the law banning solitary confinement on Rikers, a controversial law that has sat on ice since being passed by the Council in 2023.
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The Jewish Defense League, the extremist group once dubbed a terrorist organization by the FBI, is recruiting in Queens – right across the street from the borough's top cop.
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