New York

The NYPD released security camera images of a man suspected of shoving a commuter onto subway tracks in Washington Heights on Saturday, April 21. The incident occurred on the southbound platform of the West 181 Street and Fort Washington Avenue station at about 8:20 a.m., Fox 5 reports. The man, who was described by police as […]

Colombian drug lord Daniel Rendon-Herrera, also known as “Don Mario,” was extradited to New York on Monday, April 23, and was arraigned at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on Tuesday. He is being charged with leading a continuing criminal enterprise, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. According to the indictment, Rendon-Herrera was the founder and one […]

New York police are looking for a man they say has taken almost $100,000 in property in the Greenwich Village neighborhood since January. According to Pix 11, the robberies happened once in January, three times in February, once in March and twice so far in April. Police say he seems to be targeting townhouses. He […]

New York State health officials warned about exposure to measles on Saturday, April 21. The Department of Health said that two tourists from Europe, who had the disease, visited Jehovah’s Witnesses facilities across the state: the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Brooklyn on April 15 and two separate Watchtower facilities in Orange and Putnam counties on April […]

Single-use plastic bags could be banned in New York State starting Jan. 1, 2019 if Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s bill (pdf) introduced on April 23 becomes law. The ban will apply to single-use plastic carryout bags at any point of sale. Exemptions (pdf) include prepackaged plastic bags, such as trash and food storage bags; plastic garment bags; […]

New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced a citywide overhaul of its bus system on Monday, April 23. The MTA says this is a response to low ridership, down 14 percent across the city since 2007, and congestion due to more vehicles—vehicles that it says would decrease if bus transportation were improved. By 2020, it plans to […]

Retailers who sell e-cigarettes will need to apply for an electronic cigarette retail dealer license by Wednesday, April 25 or risk not being able to sell them in New York City. To obtain a license, businesses must certify that they were selling electronic cigarettes as of last Aug. 28. Pharmacies or businesses containing pharmacies are not […]

Nineteen years ago, on April 25, more than 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered in Beijing for one purpose: to ask authorities to uphold their constitutional right to freedom of belief. Little did they know that their peaceful appeal would become a peaceful protest that continues nearly two decades later, in all parts of the world. […]

FLUSHING, New York—Nearly 1,000 Falun Gong practitioners from the New York area gathered on April 22, to mark the 19th anniversary of a day that’s both sad and also a testament to great determination. On April 25, 1999, an estimated 10,000 followers of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa) gathered in Beijing […]

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Every year around April 25, practitioners of the Falun Gong meditation practice mark the day the practice became the target of a brutal persecution campaign in China by holding events around New York City. This year marks the 19th anniversary of the persecution, and to bring awareness to it, there will be a parade in […]

The amalgamation of the three transit sytems—New Jersey Transit, Long Island Rail Road, and Metro-North Railroad—is not only feasible but necessary for the vitality of the New York City area, according to nonprofit civic organization Regional Plan Association. Called the T-REX, the Trans-Regional Express, aims to better connect New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. But the […]

Britsh Rock & Roll Hall of Famer David Bowie is the subject of a new “subway takeover” being run by streaming music company Spotify. The takeover of the Broadway-Lafayette/Bleecker Street station includes photos of his life, quotes, and David Bowie MetroCards exclusive to the station. There are 250,000 MetroCards being dispensed at random from the […]

A car ban will go into effect in Central Park starting June 27, ending the four-decade-long campaign by advocates. Mayor Bill de Blasio made the announcement on Friday. “Our parks are for people, not cars. For more than a century, cars have turned parts of the world’s most iconic park into a highway. Today we […]

MTA’s new Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) president, Philip Eng, greeted commuters on Tuesday, April 17, just as a number of delays and cancelations were caused by Amtrak switch problems at Penn Station, Fox 5 reports. Frustrated commuters have been demanding more timely service, and a recent report by the state’s comptroller backed that up, […]

New York City has some of the highest rents in the country, but in the past year rents have dropped in some boroughs. According to a report by real estate appraisal company Miller Samuel Inc. and brokerage firm Douglas Elliman Real Estate, rent prices, in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens have dropped by 3.8 percent, 6.3 percent, […]

Over a month after it happened, police are still looking for a man who hit a 14-year-old girl in the head with a can of lasagna in a Bronx bodega. Fox 5 reports that the man made a sexual advance at the girl, who was in F.M. Grocery with a friend at 8:30 a.m. on […]

New York City is looking to pilot dockless bikes in the city, and has gotten proposals from 12 companies interested in taking part. They are: JUMP lennybike LimeBike MetroBike Mobike Motivate (Citi Bike’s parent company) ofo P3GM Pace (subsidiary of Zagster) QuimoCycle Riide Spin Dockless bikes allow those traveling to places where bike docks are scarce, […]

A New York nanny was found guilty on Wednesday, April 18, of stabbing to death two children in her care at their luxury Manhattan apartment, in a case that drew national headlines. A jury unanimously rejected the insanity defense of Yoselyn Ortega, 55, whose lawyer said she hallucinated a devil’s order “to kill the children […]