ENTERTAINMENT
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Brooklyn teen indicted for murdering father of two in Times Square
The Brooklyn teen who stabbed to death a young father of two in Times Square and injured two others in Midtown has been indicted on a list of charges, including murder, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said on Monday. Jayden Sanchez, 17, was indicted in state Supreme Court for allegedly murdering 39-year-old Leonides Baez near 132 West 43rd St.,…
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Amazon lawsuit details federal labor board’s dysfunction in New York
The New York Attorney General’s office and the Teamsters union have turned a lawsuit over a state labor law into an appraisal of the National Labor Relations Board’s failures. Recent filings by the union and the state AG in Amazon’s federal case against New York’s recent attempt to expand labor relations enforcement capture a damning level of dysfunction in the local NLRB…
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Mets notes: AJ Minter, Jared Young back from IL, Nick Morabito demoted, more
The Mets activated reliever AJ Minter from the 60-day injured list on Tuesday, bringing an end to a 14-month wait to return to action after undergoing surgery to repair a torn lat last spring. The 32-year-old, who joined the Mets last season after eight years with the Atlanta Braves, posted a 1.64 ERA in 13 appearances before going down at…
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Op-ed | President Trump’s obscene weaponization scam
His reported financial slush fund to reward cronies and convicted criminals is as corrupt as it gets. The recent deal between Trump and himself (yes, this is not a typo) loots the U.S. Treasury of nearly $2 billion taxpayer dollars to line the pockets of individuals who assaulted police on Jan. 6, 2021, pay off members of Congress who claim…
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Manhattan commercial judge urges attorneys to use the Court of Claims and join the bench at NYCLA ceremony
A Manhattan commercial division judge urged other commercial lawyers to consider the Court of Claims as a way to join the bench in his remarks at a New York County Lawyers Association Law Day event on Wednesday. “It’s more attainable than you might think,” acting Manhattan Commercial Division Supreme Court Justice Joel M. Cohen said during the event at Club…
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Hochul, LIRR unions trade rage over rail strike shutdown ahead of Monday commute
Gov. Kathy Hochul declared that if she and the MTA gave in to the demands of striking Long Island Rail Road workers, ticket prices would surge. The union said she is “Full it sh*t.” Hochul stood alongside MTA and LIRR executives inside of the subway’s Midtown command center on May 17, and while championing the service of striking workers, also…
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Senior scam alert: NYPD warns about sweet-talking grifters asking for directions, then stealing victims’ jewelry
Police officials reported an uptick in scams in which suspects swiped necklaces and rings right off kindhearted older adults who were sweet-talked into supposedly helping them when lost. According to NYPD Lieutenant Kevin Kelly, the perpetrators — who included three Romanian nationals arrested on robbery charges previously — have targeted seniors at their homes or while walking down the sidewalk. The…
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NYC’s billion-dollar businesses issue a high-stakes economic alert
A major local business coalition representing some of NYC’s largest employers said the city’s economic engine could sputter to a halt if City Hall moves forward with tax increases to help close a $5.6 billion budget deficit. A new report from the Partnership for New York City, released on Monday, showed that its 300-plus member companies are currently the city’s…
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Judge keeps city plan to open East Village homeless intake center on ice in ‘uncommon’ move to push hearing
A Manhattan judge pushed back a hearing this week that would have provided at least a temporary answer on whether the city can open a homeless intake center in the East Village after local residents filed suit to stop it — an “uncommon” move in cases like these, Legal Aid attorneys say. State Supreme Court Judge Sabrina Kaus now will not…
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DOI report slams state laws that hinder ability to oversee child welfare system, even in cases of youngsters’ deaths
The city Department of Investigation (DOI) released a report on Tuesday calling for changes to state laws that it said significantly limit its ability to oversee New York City’s child welfare system — including more than a dozen cases in which youngsters had died. The report said that the current laws block many of the agency’s attempts to access certain…
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