Month: November 2017

By TATYANA BELLAMY-WALKER An ex-city official was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court Thursday and pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a woman held in a …[read more]

By PAULETTE GINDI New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer gave a D+ grade to the city for its inadequate promotion of women and minority owned …[read more]

By TATYANA BELLAMY-WALKER Animal rights activists urged New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito on Thursday to support a bill protecting horses from what they …[read more]

By JAMIE DELIZ “Ya no puede caminar,” a line from the famous satirical Spanish folk-song “La Cucharacha,” moves dancers along to its exciting beat and …[read more]

By HERMIA JEAN-LOUIS & BRIAN MORENO The Communities United for Police Reform and other advocacy groups on Thursday urged the City Council to pass a …[read more]

By HERMIA JEAN-LOUIS Tears welled up in the eyes of family members of a 26-year-old defendant charged in Brooklyn Federal Court on Thursday  with arranging …[read more]

By TATYANA BELLAMY-WALKER & MARLENE GOMEZ A career criminal portrayed by his defense lawyer as having a “compromised brain” was found guilty of murder in …[read more]

By JAMIE DELIZ Kristallnacht, otherwise known as the Night of Broken Glass, is said to be the beginning of the Holocaust. On the nights of …[read more]

By BRIAN MORENO Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and religious leaders across Brooklyn urged the Trump administration on Thursday to increase funding of counterterrorism programs …[read more]

By PAULETTE GINDI Mayor Bill de Blasio projected there would be 10,000 new jobs at Brooklyn Navy Yard by 2020, at the official opening  of …[read more]