It's Friday in New York City, where the NYPD ticketed people for spitting 549 times over the last fiscal year.
But after a video circulated on social media this week showing a 21-year-old's spitting summons in Brownsville escalating into a forceful police arrest, City Councilmember Chris Banks said he'd propose a bill to strike spitting from the city's litter ordinance.
“We all want clean and safe and orderly neighborhoods, but we want to make sure that it's not at the expense of people's dignity,” Banks said. “And it can't be an excuse for the unnecessary or disproportionate confrontations that we're seeing.”
Several of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s progressive allies were arrested yesterday blocking First Avenue hours before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s combative address to the U.N. General Assembly.
Residents of a Bronx apartment building are still displaced and dealing with the aftermath of a fatal fire that tore through the building on Wednesday, leaving one of their neighbors dead and another with both legs broken after he jumped out a fourth-floor window.
A Manhattan Supreme Court judge has ordered more than two dozen top city officials and Rent Guidelines Board members to turn over their phone and email communications as part of an ongoing legal challenge that could upend the city's rent-freeze for stabilized units.
The city's medical examiner said a 20-year-old man who died in a Queens courthouse last week died by suicide.
New York City's Department of Homeless Services said it's dropping out of a federal program aimed at helping homeless veterans, accusing the Trump administration of requiring the city to exclude transgender vets from getting shelter spots.
Abu Chowdhury, a Queens supermarket owner and self-described "king of New York," was convicted on kidnapping charges yesterday for abducting and beating three people who Chowdhury said insulted him and his wife.
