Weather: ⛅ Sunny this morning, slight chance of afternoon snow, highs in the upper 30s.
It's Thursday in New York City, where police have arrested a 27-year-old man for allegedly assaulting NYPD officers during a snowball fight in Washington Square Park.
But will the charges hold up?
The saga echoes a 2010 incident, when five young men were arrested after an off-duty police officer said they threw a snowball at him. But in that case, the Bronx district attorney dropped the charges — the officer later admitted that he wasn't actually hit — and the five men sued the city and won a payout.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said ICE agents chasing someone at high speeds through the city yesterday caused a crash that sent several people, including children, to the hospital.
A City Council oversight hearing about snow clearance keeps getting delayed because New Yorkers with disabilities, who want to testify in person, still can't get through crosswalks safely.
Frank Moscatelli, a clinical professor of physics at NYU, said if a 10-pound sphere of ice about 10 centimeters in diameter were to fall "very quickly" — in about three seconds — "it would reach a terminal velocity of close to 50 or 60 mph.”
An analysis from the policy group New York Housing Conference shows owners of government-subsidized, or “affordable,” housing filed more than a third of the city's roughly 120,000 eviction lawsuits in 2024.
The mayor is naming Erin Dalton as head of the city’s Department of Social Services. She previously led the Allegheny County Department of Human Services in the Pittsburgh area.
