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After Mamdani Cut-Off, Adams Aide Demands Payments for Sex Harassment Defense
3+ hour ago (624+ words) Make a monthly gift today Find our journalism more easily when you are searching for local coverage. When Eric Adams was still mayor, the city agreed to pay the lawyers representing senior aide Timothy Pearson in four lawsuits alleging sexual…...
Rikers Official Forced Out Under Adams Returns to Oversee Discipline
1+ day, 33+ min ago (831+ words) Make a monthly gift today Find our journalism more easily when you are searching for local coverage. Days after Mayor Eric Adams took office, his hand-picked correction commissioner ousted the official overseeing thousands of backlogged use-of-force investigations inside the city…...
Fire Escapes Blocked in Manhattan Building Where Three Died, City Says
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (365+ words) Make a monthly gift today Find our journalism more easily when you are searching for local coverage. The Buildings Department slapped new violations on the owners of the building where three tenants died in a fire last week after inspectors…...
To Evict Tenants, NYC Landlords Now Claim "Demolition." Is It Valid?
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (1269+ words) Make a monthly gift today Find our journalism more easily when you are searching for local coverage. But in New York's Good Cause Eviction Law, the definition of "demolish" is not straightforward. What does it mean to demolish a home?...
City Jails Renew Contract With Phone Provider Amid Concerns of AI Snooping on Detainee Calls
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (1314+ words) Make a monthly gift today Find our journalism easier when you are searching for local coverage. 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…...
Landlords of Inwood fatal fire building were sued 16 times
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (302+ words) Make a monthly gift today Today's SCOOP is brought to you by'our members. Just days before a blaze at 207 Dyckman St. in Inwood killed three, city housing inspectors issued the landlord a dozen code violations, including one for a non-functioning…...
More Than 1, 000 Health and Safety Violations For Owners of Building Where 3 Died
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (1048+ words) Make a monthly gift today Find our journalism easier when you are searching for local coverage. Three days before a fatal fire May 4th at 207 Dyckman St. in Inwood, housing inspectors appeared at the six-story walkup and issued a dozen code…...
Price Tag for Rikers Island Overdoses: Two Lives and $5. 2 Million
1+ week, 2+ day ago (681+ words) Make a monthly gift today Find our journalism easier when you are searching for local coverage. City lawyers have agreed to pay nearly $5. 2 million to settle lawsuits brought by the families of two men who died from methadone overdoses while…...
Feds appear to tase man screaming for help
1+ week, 3+ day ago (624+ words) Make a monthly gift today An ICE agent appeared to tase a man several times while another agent tried to forcefully drag him out of his car as the man screams in pain and begs for help, as captured in…...
Video Shows ICE Agent Tasing Man Multiple Times Ahead of Bushwick Hospital Standoff
1+ week, 4+ day ago (774+ words) Make a monthly gift today Find our journalism easier when you are searching for local coverage. An ICE agent tased a man several times while another agent tried to forcefully drag him out of his car as the man screams…...