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It's Wednesday in New York City, where Linden Boulevard, a six-mile stretch from Flatbush to Ozone Park, is the city’s new “Boulevard of Death,” says local City Councilmember Chris Banks.
Two hit-and-run deaths last month brought heightened attention to the eight-lane thoroughfare, which has been a playground for speeding and reckless drivers and the locus of hundreds of injuries since 2021, city data shows.
A former NYPD sergeant whose security company was awarded millions of dollars in city contracts and former executives at a Brooklyn-based nonprofit are facing federal corruption charges in an alleged scheme to embezzle and steer business toward favored vendors.
New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman won’t be able to access as much as $7 million in public matching funds after a state election board said he didn’t file the required paperwork.
More than 20% of New York City's land mass used to be covered by water and could once again be underwater due to global warming, according to a new study.
Nearly five years since its creation, the de Blasio-era Behavioral Health Emergency Response Division — which sends mental health professionals and EMTs to certain mental health emergencies, rather than the police — has been beset with problems.
