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It's Wednesday in New York City, where David Borukhov, a self-proclaimed millionaire who operates a fleet of unlicensed tow trucks, has a pitch for anyone looking to spice up their life.
“If you're tired of being broke, watching TV, watching us in these trucks, watching where we are, hit us up and we'll get you there," Borukhov recently told his 45,000 Instagram followers.
The city's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection said it's investigating Borukhov's business after customer complaints about illegal towing.
But Borukhov’s business is still flourishing, at least according to his social media posts.
Correction officials said a 40-year-old man in city custody was found dead at Rikers Island yesterday, less than 24 hours after a 41-year-old woman died at the women’s jail on the same complex.
Police said a 21-year-old man escaped custody yesterday afternoon by fleeing on foot while being transferred from a police vehicle into Brooklyn Criminal Court for his arraignment.
Police said Donike Gocaj, 56, appeared to have parked her car near the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 52nd Street, got out and fatally plummeted down a Con Ed manhole on Monday night.
A group of tenants of rent-stabilized apartment buildings once in the portfolio of the failed Signature Bank say conditions haven't improved fast enough since the New York City Employees’ Retirement System invested in their buildings' mortgage loans in 2024.
The Trump administration says it can’t bring a Colombian woman back to the United States after deporting her to Africa — despite a court order demanding her return — because of the ongoing Ebola outbreak there.
ICE agents appeared to go ahead and detain a man at 26 Federal Plaza yesterday, flouting that federal judge's ruling.
A government watchdog group wants Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg to revive similar bribery charges against former Mayor Eric Adams that were brought and then dropped by the federal government after Trump took office.
Organized crime is still thriving in New Jersey, according to more than a dozen law enforcement officials who testified in Trenton yesterday.
A town official in Chester, New York, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for shooting a DoorDash driver who got lost and stopped at his home to ask for directions.
A lengthy Long Island Rail Road strike upending travel routines for hundreds of thousands of daily commuters — and voters — could've made things worse for Hochul in the middle of an election year.
Overall enrollment in New York City's preschool programs has remained relatively flat, even as Mayor Zohran Mamdani makes a new push to market them using ads and his considerable reach on social media.
