NYC developer sues city for $50M over stalled East Side riverfront project
The Adams administration’s botched plan to build a seawall along the shoreline of the East River cost the city a valuable and much-needed life sciences facility and cost a potential developer at least $50 million, a stunning lawsuit alleges. New York Stock Exchange-listed real estate developer Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE) alleges in a lawsuit […]
NYC should recover millions in payments to migrant contractor DocGo: audit
A scathing audit by Comptroller Brad Lander, a new mayoral candidate, says the company received a massive $432 million no-bid contract from Mayor Adams’ administration to help immigrants, and that immigrants should be forced to return millions of dollars to the city because of questionable payment and billing practices with lax government oversight. The audit […]
NYC cyber squatter hopes to cash in big on Harris-Walz website he bought in 2020
It’s a vice presidential contest. A Brooklyn cybersquatter who bought the website HarrisWalz.com in 2020 could sell the domain for $15,000 if Kamala Harris chooses Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. Trademark attorney Jeremy Green Etche bought the URL for just $8.99 in the hopes that Harris and Waltz will one day become […]
Video shows terrifying moment truck hits 2 men on NYC sidewalk
Shocking video was released Monday capturing the horrifying moment a pickup truck drove onto a Harlem sidewalk and plowed into two pedestrians. Police say the horrific crash happened just before 4:50 p.m. on the corner of St. Nicholas Avenue and West 148th Street, when the driver of the truck “became unable to navigate the roadway” […]
City Council defuses ‘nuclear bomb’ plan to regulate luxury restaurants at NYC hotels amid backlash
After all, it probably won’t be last orders at many of the city’s most popular restaurants and bars. The City Council listened to protests from chefs and restaurateurs, and a scathing rebuke from The Washington Post, and killed parts of a hotel regulation bill that would have been the downfall of many top-notch eateries and […]
Ex-Jeopardy champ teaching at NYC private school Winston Nguyen enrolled in sex offender treatment before shocking child porn arrest
An elite Brooklyn private school teacher accused of defrauding teenage girls for child pornography had voluntarily participated in a sex offender treatment program before his shock arrest, his lawyer revealed during a heated probation hearing Monday. Winston Nguyen, a former Jeopardy! winner employed as a teacher at the upscale St. Ann’s School, was previously convicted […]
2 female tourists shoved onto NYC subway tracks
Two female tourists from Mexico were pushed onto the tracks by another woman at a Manhattan subway station early Monday morning, according to New York Police and officials. Police said the victims, ages 20 and 27, were pushed off the northbound F platform at the Delancey Street/Essex Street station on the Lower East Side just […]
3-foot-long snake found slithering across NYC street: cops
I’m crawling here! I’m crawling here! A three-foot-long snake was captured trying to cross a street in New York on Sunday morning, police said. Authorities said the reptile was found about 11:15 a.m. squirming around a Jersey barrier that had been set up for construction at the intersection of Washington Avenue and West 12th Street […]
Eric Adams’ illegal pot shop crackdown sparks official probe by Brad Lander as the two face off for NYC mayor
One mayoral candidate isn’t giving the city much credit for cracking down on illegal marijuana stores. City Auditor Brad Lander has opened an investigation into rival Mayor Eric Adams’ high-profile “Operation Padlock” program, which has shut down about 800 unlicensed marijuana dispensaries in the city since mid-May. Mayor Lander announced the “Operation Padlock” investigation in […]
Girl, 7, and mom critical after second major NYC fire in two days
A fire in Queens on Sunday seriously injured a 7-year-old girl and her mother and hospitalized two Bravest, a day after a series of fires in the borough destroyed a string of homes and injured four people, including two firefighters. The girl and her 29-year-old mother were rescued from a house fire on 37th Street […]