Tag: NY News

Twitter Alerts Back on Track for NYC Subway After Week Off

NEW YORK—Service alerts for New York City’s subway, commuter trains and buses were back on Twitter on Thursday, a week after transit officials balked at paying to provide the information. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority lost access last week to Twitter’s application programming interface to send out automated alerts about service changes and emergencies. The MTA…


New York City Mayor Refutes ‘Squad’ Democrat for Alleging Homeless Man’s Death Was Murder

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday that social media-driven calls declare a homeless man’s subway death a murder are premature and “very irresponsible,” responding to a claim made by a left-wing Democrat lawmaker. Jordan Neely, who died after being restrained by other subway passengers, was reportedly yelling and threatening others on the train….


New York City Mayor Rebukes ‘Squad’ Democrat for Alleging Homeless Man’s Death Was Murder

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday that social media-driven calls declare a homeless man’s subway death a murder are premature and “very irresponsible,” responding to a claim made by a left-wing Democrat lawmaker. Jordan Neely, who died after being restrained by other subway passengers, was reportedly yelling and threatening others on the train….


New York Becomes First State to Ban Gas Stoves

New York has become the first state in the country to ban gas stoves after the state legislature on May 3 approved a new state budget that includes a prohibition on fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings starting in 2026. The final vote followed weeks of what Gov. Kathy Hochul called “very intense” negotiations…


New York Becomes 1st State to Ban Gas Stoves

New York has become the first state in the country to ban natural gas stoves after the state Legislature approved a new state budget that includes a prohibition on fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings starting in 2026. The final vote followed weeks of what Gov. Kathy Hochul called “very intense” negotiations that led…


Serena Williams, Karlie Kloss Announce Pregnancies at Met Gala

NEW YORK—Move over Instagram (or Snapchat)—the Met Gala was the place to announce pregnancies Monday night, at least if you’re Serena Williams or Karlie Kloss. The tennis legend and supermodel each revealed their pregnancies in interviews on the Met Gala’s not-so-red carpet. Williams’ announcement had particular poignance given that she stepped away from tennis last…


Operator in Limo Crash That Killed 20 Goes on Trial in NY

SCHOHARIE, N.Y.—Nearly five years after a stretch limousine packed with birthday revelers careened down a hill and off a road in rural upstate New York, killing 20 people, the operator of the company that rented out the vehicle is going on trial. Nauman Hussain, who ran Prestige Limousine, is charged with criminally negligent homicide and…


NYPD Officer Dies 33 Years After He Was Shot in a Robbery

NEW YORK—A New York City police officer who spent more than three decades in a vegetative state after being shot in the head during a botched robbery has died, officials said. Detective Troy Patterson, who was off duty when he was shot on Jan. 16, 1990, died Saturday, Detectives Endowment Association President Paul DiGiacomo said…


Ocasio-Cortez ‘Not Planning’ to Challenge Incumbent Democrat for Senate Seat in 2024

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) will not, at least for now, run for the U.S. Senate seat held by fellow New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, who is seeking another term next year. “She is not planning to run for Senate in 2024. She is not planning to primary Gillibrand,” a spokesperson for Ocasio-Cortez told Politico on…


NYC Partly Shutters 4 Parking Garages After Deadly Collapse

NEW YORK—After the deadly collapse of a parking structure in lower Manhattan, New York City building officials swept through dozens of parking garages and ordered four of them to immediately shutter because of structural defects that “deteriorated to the point where they were now posing an immediate threat to public safety.” Two of the parking…