It's Wednesday in New York City, where there's generally a penalty for failing to prevent a fire alarm from going off when there's no emergency.
But in dozens of cases over the past few years where false alarms have run out at select cultural institutions — the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, the Central Park Boathouse — no fines have been collected.
That's because these institutions are part of public-private partnerships and operate on city-owned property. Thus, the FDNY in those cases issued summonses to the city — which is not, in turn, expected to pay a fine to itself.
The metal springs between subway cars, which are designed to keep visually impaired riders from accidentally falling onto the platform, keep injuring transit workers, according to an internal MTA memo.
A Bronx man already facing state hate crime charges after an attack at Central Synagogue in Midtown is now also facing federal charges.
Gun-rights advocates are suing over a New York law designed to crack down on weapons that "can be converted into a machine gun," arguing that it effectively bans the popular Glock pistol carried by many police officers.
New York City's multi-purpose online portal for veteransstill doesn't work after eight years and $2 million of investment, according to the city's comptroller.
The city's sanitation department yesterday unveiled a new trash complex on the southern side of Staten Island — which will allow a garbage facility on the North Shore to be torn down and replaced with a large apartment complex.
Mangione's lawyers said moving forward with the state charges would violate his due process rights and a legal concept called “double jeopardy,” which protects people from being prosecuted twice for the same crime.
Rather than having to comply with new building emissions caps, landlords will have the opportunity to buy energy credits through a program initiated by former Mayor Eric Adams.
