Category: NY News

Father Arrested After 3-Week-Old Baby Is Killed by Crossbow in Upstate New York

COLESVILLE, N.Y.—An upstate New York man shot his companion with a crossbow while she was holding the couple’s 3-week-old daughter, killing the child and injuring the woman, authorities said. Sheriff’s deputies and emergency medical workers responded to a 911 call and found the injured woman and baby at a home in the town of Colesville…


After Banning Gas Stoves, New York City Goes After Wood and Coal-Fired Pizzerias

Officials are looking to ban wood and coal-fired ovens in New York City restaurants citing health reasons—a proposal that could severely hit many of the city’s iconic pizzerias. “All New Yorkers deserve to breathe healthy air and wood and coal-fired stoves are among the largest contributors of harmful pollutants in neighborhoods with poor air quality,”…


Richard Ravitch, Civic ‘Titan’ and Leader Who Rescued NYC in the 1970s, Dies at 89

Richard Ravitch, former New York Lieutenant Governor and Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) chairman credited for bringing the city out of crisis in the 1970s and 1980s, died Sunday night at age 89. His wife, Kathleen M. Doyle, confirmed to The New York Times Ravitch’s passing. “Dick Ravitch was a titan of New York’s civic world who…


NYC Gets $25 Million for E-bike Charging Stations, Seeking to Prevent Deadly Battery Fires

NEW YORK—After a series of fires involving faulty e-bike batteries including a recent blaze that claimed four lives, New York City officials announced Sunday that they are receiving a $25 million emergency grant from the federal government to fund scores of charging stations citywide. Mayor Eric Adams hopes the stations will provide a safer way…


New York Lawyers Sanctioned for Using Fake ChatGPT Cases in Legal Brief

NEW YORK—A U.S. judge on Thursday imposed sanctions on two New York lawyers who submitted a legal brief that included six fictitious case citations generated by an artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT. U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel in Manhattan ordered lawyers Steven Schwartz, Peter LoDuca, and their law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman to pay…


3 Hurt When Google Critic Crashes Car Into Building Near Company’s NYC Headquarters, Police Say

NEW YORK—A man who has claimed for years that Google was torturing users with flashing lights crashed a car into a building near the company’s New York City headquarters, injuring three pedestrians, authorities said. The man, 34, drove onto the sidewalk and crashed his Ford Fusion into a building on West 15th Street and 10th…


4 Dead After Fire in E-bike Shop Spreads to Apartments in New York City

NEW YORK—A fire at a New York City e-bike shop quickly spread to upper-floor apartments and killed four people early Tuesday in the latest deadly blaze linked to exploding lithium ion batteries. The fire, reported shortly after midnight, happened at a shop that was cited last summer for safety violations related to the storage and…


New York Schools to Hide Children’s Gender Identity From Parents

The New York State Education Department (NYSED) has released a new guidance report encouraging schools to keep the gender identity of students a secret from their families, while insisting that a child’s preferred gender identity be readily accepted. “School personnel’s acceptance of a student’s asserted gender identity should require no more than a statement from…


Epoch Times Film Exposing Untold Realities of Youth Transgender Movement Debuts in New York

NEW YORK—“Would you rather have a dead daughter, or a living son?” This is a dilemma that parents often find themselves in as their children go through a gender identity crisis. Although the answers are far from clear cut. By following the journeys of several former transgender youths, the latest Epoch Times documentary, “Gender Transformation,”…


Epoch Times Debuts Film Exposing Untold Realities of Youth Transgender Movement in New York

NEW YORK—“Would you rather have a dead daughter, or a living son?” This is a dilemma that’s sometimes presented to parents as their children go through a gender identity crisis. The answers are far from clear-cut. By following the journeys of several former transgender youths, the latest Epoch Times documentary, “Gender Transformation,” unpacks the complexities…