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On Tuesday afternoon the New York City Housing Authority tweeted out praise to the Shawn Carter Foundation, as well as Jack Dorsey’s Start Small Foundation, after using “a generous donation” from those charities to purchase supermarket gift cards for residents in the Marcy, Sumner, and Tompkins housing projects. For background (since it’s a pretty brief tweet) in […]
It seems New York City will enter phase 2 of its reopening plan sooner than expected. During his daily briefing on Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the city was on track to lift additional coronavirus restrictions as soon as Monday, exactly two weeks after phase 1 began. Previous projections from lawmakers, including Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, had the […]
According to an announcement made by Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, the New York City Police Department will be reassigning about 600 plainclothes officers into new positions, effective immediately. According to The New York Post, the unit that has now been disbanded is the same one that once employed Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who killed Eric […]
Husan Blue, 30, was arrested Thursday, after a number of overly aggressive New York Police Department officers broke up a party in Brooklyn that was being held on private property, Buzzfeed News reports. Blue attended a gathering of about 30 to 50 people for his father Greg, who turned 57 earlier in the week, in […]
As protests continue throughout New York City and the rest of the world, Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced some reforms for the New York Police Department. The mayor’s task force on racial inclusion advocated for the improvements. One of the reforms includes the city reallocating funding from the NYPD to youth initiatives and social […]
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to keep the Karens of the world at bay, and his new proposed bill is firsthand proof of that. Cuomo wants state lawmakers to authorize a bill that will make it a hate crime to call 911 and cite a false accusation due to race, gender, or religion, the New York Post reports. […]
New York City is set to begin Phase One of reopening certain businesses under social distancing guidelines on Monday, June 8. Mayor Bill de Blasio revealed on Wednesday that he plans to begin the city starting with roughly 32,000 shuttered construction sites opening back up this week. This will be followed by those working in wholesale, manufacturing, […]
It appears New York City has become the latest city to force Uber and Lyft to suspend services during curfew hours, CNN Business reports. The pause from 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. in Uber and Lyft services during New York City’s curfew went into effect on Tuesday at the request of the city. All ride-sharing […]
Bill de Blasio’s daughter, Chiara de Blasio, was arrested on Saturday night, NBC News reports. According to NYPD law enforcement, the NYC mayor’s daughter was arrested in Manhattan for “unlawful assembly.” She has since been released. Chiara’s arrest was just one of 345 that were made in New York City on Saturday, as protests over […]
Christian Cooper, the black man who recorded his unnecessarily tense interaction with a white woman in New York City’s Central Park on Memorial Day after he asked her to put her dog on a leash, said on The View Thursday that he has accepted Amy Cooper’s apology. “I do accept her apology. It’s a first step. I think she’s got to do some […]
