Call them the dirty AI dozen. Twelve smutty websites containing deepfake pornographic images of celebrities made with artificial intelligence (AI) were shut down and seized through operations that Manhattan District…
This week: Proposed 2030 Census Changes Would Limit the Count & Impact New York Population Count; Legislation Before Governor Hochul Would Extend Voting Hours; Brooklyn Democrats’ Leadership Fight Continues in Court;…
Landlords who have sued to reverse the Rent Guidelines Board’s June decision to freeze the rent on nearly 1 million stabilized apartments will probably lose their case against the city seeking to do so, legal experts…
Brooklyn’s District Attorney’s Office is expanding its support for victims of violent crime with a new $354,000 federal grant aimed at helping victims and their families in the immediate aftermath of homicides and…
Reformers faced off against the Brooklyn Democratic Party establishment in New York State Supreme Court Tuesday afternoon with the future of the county’s political party hanging in the balance.
New York City is unlikely to face lawsuits based on the information in newly released documents about what the city knew and hid about Lower Manhattan’s dangerous air quality in the weeks following the 9/11 terrorist…
In the News NYPD Fatally Shoots Man With Knife on Brooklyn Bridge [NYT] Caribbean Revelers Celebrate at Parade, as Many Are Missing [NYT] NYC Homeless Shelters Surged in Four Years [NYP] Inside Brooklyn Heights’…
This week: Brooklyn Democrats’ Rules Change Goes Back to Court; Good Government Groups Affirm Commitment to Election Integrity; State Board of Elections Adopts Rules for Ballot Drop Boxes; N.Y.C.
At least nine people were injured in stabbings and shootings related to J’Ouvert and West Indian Day celebrations in Brooklyn on Monday, authorities said.
Mayor Mamdani's bike lane projects keep running into the same foe: a retirement-aged Manhattan lawyer and convicted securities fraudster who has sued NYC DOT five times in three boroughs, to little success.
The families of two people who died in NYPD custody last summer sued the city Thursday over its failure to respond to their Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests for details about what happened during their final…
Top Correction Department leaders are actively working to undermine the court-appointed officials overseeing the troubled jail system, the federal monitor warned Thursday, accusing the commissioner and other leading…
by Isabella Gallo, amNY The Rent Guidelines Board’s June decision to freeze the rent for nearly 1 million apartments on October 1 now rests in the hands of a Manhattan Supreme Court judge set to rule in the coming days.
Police officers shot and killed an allegedly knife-wielding, suicidal man following an hour-long standoff on the Brooklyn Bridge early Friday morning, police sources said.
A former Department of Probation (DOP) chief investigator has amended her whistleblower lawsuit after city lawyers moved to dismiss it, explicitly arguing that an alleged prior relationship between Commissioner Sharun…
A court hearing on controversial rule changes within the Brooklyn Democratic Party was adjourned Wednesday to give three respondents more time to secure legal counsel.
A Downtown Brooklyn man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after authorities said he carried out three gunpoint robberies across the neighborhood in just four days.
A 2.6-acre Clinton Hill block recently slated for a mega-adaptive reuse project has been taken over by a new developer who plans to demolish more than half of its historic industrial buildings for a new mixed-use…
None of the homeowners suing over the rollout of the city’s pied-à-terre tax on New Yorkers’ pricey second homes are actually subject to the tax, a fact that the city told the Staten Island Supreme Court judge hearing…