Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch announced third-quarter crime stats showing seven consecutive quarters of declining major crime since January 2024, with six of seven index categories down. Shooting incidents fell 15.6% in Q3 (-29.7% in September) and victims hit record lows, aided by 4,100 illegal guns seized this year and nearly…
Machete Incident in Boro Park , Brooklyn. 2 Teens Arrested On September 29 at approximately 5:20 PM, Boro Park Shomrim, in collaboration with the NYPD, responded quickly to multiple reports of a group armed with a machete near 43rd Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway. Thanks to their rapid action, a machete was recovered, and two…
New York City will join a new proposed $7.4 billion Purdue Pharma–Sackler family settlement, securing approximately $48 million for the five boroughs to help repair communities harmed by the opioid crisis. Announced by Mayor Eric Adams and Corporation Counsel Muriel Goode-Trufant, the deal—part of litigation dating back to 2017—adds to nearly $190 million already received…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state will award $25 million—its largest single-round allocation under the three-decade-old Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution Abatement and Control Program—to help farmers finance water-quality projects, funded by the Environmental Protection Fund and, for the first time, the 2022 Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act. The…
New York Attorney General Letitia James, speaking for a coalition of 19 state attorneys general, affirms that mifepristone has been safely and effectively used for more than 25 years for medication abortion and early miscarriage care, and condemns an FDA review initiated by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Martin Makary as…
Олбани, штат Нью-Йорк — Губернатор Кэти Хокул призвала жителей Нью-Йорка игнорировать SMS-сообщения, звонки, письма и почтовые рассылки, в которых запрашиваются банковские или платёжные данные якобы для получения чеков по возмещению инфляции. По её словам, имеющие право налогоплательщики — те, кто подал декларацию, соответствует порогам дохода и не был указан как иждивенец, — получат выплаты автоматически….