New York, NY – A 2015 land deal approved by the de Blasio administration for $16.15 million which lifted deed restrictions on the 150,000-square-foot property located at 45 Rivington Street on the Lower East Side is now being investigated by City Comptroller Scott Stringer and the Department of Investigation.
Brooklyn, NY – As the probe into Mayor de Blasio’s longtime friend and donor, Yitzchok (Isaac) Leshinsky and his former nonprofit, Housing Bridge, continues, de Blasio has said he will return campaign contributions totaling over $20,000 dating back to 2007 that he received from Leshinsky for his City Council and Mayoral runs.
A wealthy widower has been found strangled to death in his Upper East Side apartment with the door locked from the inside and days worth of deliveries at the door.
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — A Jewish customer in Dunkin’ Donuts was threatened and told to take off his yarmulke in what police are investigating as a hate crime, according to the NYPD.
A startled police horse threw a cop to the street and ran riderless through Times Square, dragging its the officer a short way.
B&H Photo & Electronics treats it minority warehouse workers unfairly including forcing its Hispanic warehouse employees to use a separate “unsanitary” bathroom according to a US Labor Department lawsuit filed Thursday.
Eitan Haya, the one-time head of a New York-based Israeli crime organization was sentenced in the Tel Aviv District Court on Thursday to 20 years in prison on offense related to extortion and violence.
Jewish students at four City University of New York campuses are being harassed and intimidated by a pro-Palestinian student group, and the university isn’t doing enough to protect them, according to a leading advocacy group.
A lawyer accused of trying to rape a woman in his Midtown office claimed on Monday that there was no way he could be guilty — because he’s impotent and forgot to take his Viagra pill.
By prosecutors’ count, Apple helped federal law enforcement agents extract information from iPhones in criminal investigations at least 70 times in seven years before suddenly expressing a change of heart last fall in an otherwise ordinary drug case out of Brooklyn.