It's Friday in New York City, where Hayk Safaryan, a 44-year-old Armenian immigrant and home contractor, was indicted last year for allegedly failing to complete a Park Slope brownstone renovation he'd been paid for.
Last summer, federal immigration officers, acting without a judicial warrant or consent, entered his house with "a heavily armed SWAT team of about six people" and detained him, according to written court testimony from his wife.
New York City tenants are making a record number of complaints about a lack of heat and hot water in their homes, as a stretch of frigid weather is set to continue through this weekend.
The $16 billion project to build new train tunnels under the Hudson River began closing up shop yesterday due to President Donald Trump’s order to withhold funding for the work.
"This is not you, Mr. Trump, this is not what you are about": Trade union members who've been working on the tunnels, many of whom voted for the president, have expressed their disappointment with his move.
After yesterday's Democratic primary election to fill New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill's former congressional seat, progressive labor activist Analilia Mejia and former 7th District Rep. Tom Malinowski are still locked in a tight race.
Assemblymember Eddie Gibbs, an East Harlem Democrat and the first formerly incarcerated person to be elected to the state Legislature,said he no longer feels safe in the Assembly after an altercation with another lawmaker last year.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani this week endorsed Gov. Kathy Hochul for re-election, a decision that risks undermining his ongoing efforts to convince Albany lawmakers to raise taxes on the rich and appease his left-leaning base.
Mayor Mamdani told The Brian Lehrer Show yesterday that he's accountable for a communication breakdown over warming buses for homeless people during the ongoing stretch of dangerously cold weather that has killed at least 17 people.
