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Subway conductor punched in the face by Queens passenger angry over train route
4+ hour, 54+ min ago (151+ words) An MTA conductor was punched in the face early Thursday by a Queens passenger angry over the route the train had taken, the Daily News has learned. The 37-year-old conductor was looking out the window of the A train when…...
Menin to tap key allies — and her main speaker’s race opponent — for top NYC Council posts
13+ hour, 18+ min ago (450+ words) City Council Speaker Julie Menin plans to tap Eric Dinowitz, Oswald Feliz, Shaun Abreu and Shekar Krishnan as chairmen of the Council's Education, Public Safety, Transportation and Oversight committees, handing four of the chamber's most prominent posts to key political…...
85-year-old woman stabbed to death in her Brooklyn apartment
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (131+ words) 85-year-old woman stabbed to death in her Brooklyn apartment'New York Daily News An 85-year-old woman was stabbed to death in her Brooklyn apartment, police said Wednesday. Julia Boomer was stabbed multiple times all over her body inside her home on…...
Bronx deli worker beaten with baseball bat for stopping shoplifter from stealing chips
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (238+ words) A Bronx deli worker was mercilessly beaten with a baseball bat by a shoplifter he tried to stop from palming a package of chips, police said Tuesday. Cops released images of the suspect wanted for the Jan. 7 attack at Moe's…...
Man who murdered Queens ex-girlfriend captured in S.C., to be brought back to NYC
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (588+ words) The masked man who tracked down and fatally shot his ex-girlfriend in the head during a harrowing caught-on-camera attack in Queens has been captured in South Carolina and may soon be returned to the borough to face justice, Queens District…...
Teens arrested in death of woman shot in head in Hell’s Kitchen NYCHA complex
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (691+ words) NYPD detectives have arrested two teens for fatally shooting an 18-year-old woman in the head as they played with a gun at a NYCHA complex in Hell's Kitchen last year, police said Friday. A 16-year-old boy is facing manslaughter, criminally…...
Hundreds of protestors march on Foley Square in protest of Renee Nicole Good shooting
1+ week, 13+ hour ago (345+ words) Some 500 people gathered around "The Triumph of the Human Spirit" in Foley Square Wednesday night to protest the Minneapolis shooting of Renee Nicole Good. Protestors chanted "Say her name: Renee Nicole Good" just hours after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers…...
Man struck by R train after falling onto tracks at Queens subway station
1+ week, 1+ day ago (130+ words) Man struck by R train after falling onto tracks at Queens subway station'New York Daily News A man was struck by a train after falling onto the tracks at a Queens subway station on Tuesday, leaving him critically injured, cops…...
Subway service on No. 4 train to be delayed nights and weekends
1+ week, 1+ day ago (209+ words) Late night service on the No. 4 subway train through Manhattan and the Bronx will be slower through the third week of February as the MTA replaces switch tracks between the two boroughs " and weekend service will soon be affected as…...
Reform the New York State Scaffold Law
1+ week, 2+ day ago (250+ words) In short, whereas every other state in America relies on a comparative negligence model to determine liability for who is to blame for a construction accident, New York imposes absolute liability on property owners and contractors no matter what. Despite…...