Category: New York City

NYPD Wants Businesses to Require Customers Remove Masks

The New York Police Police Department is advising businesses to ask patrons to take off their masks before entry in light of the high number of thefts and robberies across the city. Removing face masks should be made a “condition of entry,” NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey said at a press conference last week,…


New York City Agrees to Pay Hundreds of Black Lives Matter Demonstrators For Arrest Tactics

The New York City government has agreed to pay more than 300 Black Lives Matter demonstrators $21,500 each to settle a lawsuit over the crowd control tactics policy used in response to demonstrations in the summer of 2020. In July 2020, a group of four activists brought a lawsuit against the city on behalf of…


Rep. Mike Gallagher Leads Rally Against CCP ‘Police Station’ in New York City’s Chinatown

Chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), joined by Congressmen Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and Neal Dunn (R-Fla.) and other elected officials, Chinese dissidents, and human rights activists, hold a rally and press conference at 10:00 a.m. ET on Feb. 25 in front of the unauthorized Chinese…


LIVE NOW: Rep. Mike Gallagher Leads Rally Against CCP ‘Police Station’ in New York City’s Chinatown

Chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), joined by Congressmen Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and Neal Dunn (R-Fla.) and other elected officials, Chinese dissidents, and human rights activists, hold a rally and press conference at 10:00 a.m. ET on Feb. 25 in front of the unauthorized Chinese…


LIVE February 25, 10 AM ET: Rep. Mike Gallagher Leads Rally Against CCP ‘Police Station’ in New York City’s Chinatown

Chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), joined by Congressmen Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and Neal Dunn (R-Fla.) and other elected officials, Chinese dissidents, and human rights activists, hold a rally and press conference at 10:00 a.m. ET on Feb. 25 in front of the unauthorized Chinese…


New York City Businesses Hires K-9 Units Amid Rise in Shoplifting Thefts

Amid a surge in shoplifting crimes in New York City, one of the Big Apple’s largest shopping districts has hired K-9 units in an effort to protect businesses and sniff out thieves. The 34th Street Partnership, a not-for-profit, private management company that overseas business improvements in the city, including in Macy’s Herald Square, Penn Station, and Madison Square…


New York City Business Hires K-9 Units Amid Rise in Shoplifting Thefts

Amid a surge in shoplifting crimes in New York City, one of the Big Apple’s largest shopping districts has hired K-9 units in an effort to protect businesses and sniff out thieves. The 34th Street Partnership, a not-for-profit, private management company that overseas business improvements in the city, including in Macy’s Herald Square, Penn Station, and Madison Square…


‘Wreckless Spending’: Crash Claims Involving NYC Municipal Vehicles Cost Taxpayers Over $500 Million

New York City taxpayers have paid more than $500 million dollars in civil settlements related to crashes involving city vehicles over the past decade. The majority of crash claims were made against the New York City Police Department, according to a Feb. 12 report from the office of New York City Comptroller Brad Lander. Payments to people injured…


Fired NYC Workers Have to Re-apply for Job, ‘Just Wasn’t Right’ to Reject Vaccine: Mayor Adams

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Friday defended the firing of city employees who refused to comply with the now-sunsetting COVID vaccine mandate, arguing that it “just wasn’t right” for them to decline to get the jab. Appearing on Caribbean Power Jam Radio’s “The Reset Show,” Adams was asked about the fate of the…


Fired NYC Workers Have to Re-Apply for Jobs, ‘Just Wasn’t Right’ to Reject Vaccine: Mayor Adams

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Friday defended the firing of city employees who refused to comply with the now-sunsetting COVID vaccine mandate, arguing that it “just wasn’t right” for them to decline to get the jab. Appearing on Caribbean Power Jam Radio’s “The Reset Show,” Adams was asked about the fate of the…