Gusmane Coulibaly, 27, of Anderson Ave. in the Highbridge section, was taken into custody by detectives from the NYPD warrant squad and booked at the 6th Precinct where he was charged with assaulting a police officer after he was identified as one of the four suspects who were caught on camera firing snowballs and chunks of ice at cops starting at 4:20 p.m. after the blizzard ended on Feb. 23.
JewBelong cofounder Archie Gottesman accused Somo of censoring Jewish voices "at the very moment antisemitism is surging." Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt also condemned the ads' removal, saying, "If acknowledging that Jewish New Yorkers sometimes feel compelled to hide visible symbols of their identity is considered controversial, that should alarm all of us."
The officers falsely told the building superintendent that they were from the Police Department and said that they were searching for a missing child. The superintendent let the officers in, Ms. Shipman said. At the apartment door of the student, Ellie Aghayeva, 29, the officers repeated the same story to gain entry. Our security cameras captured the agents in the hallway showing pictures of the alleged missing child.
The city is our landlord, the mayor is our landlord, we are his tenants so why are we not included? I feel like it's completely unrealistic and it's unfair to have us live in this inhumane condition and we are not invited.
The buffer zone proposal has drawn a split response since its introduction in January. Many pro-Israel Jews have lauded it as a way to curb intimidation in a tense climate, while opponents say it would inappropriately clamp down on constitutionally protected speech, including against pro-Israel events.
Michael Gerber, the police department's deputy commissioner for legal affairs, told council members Wednesday that the NYPD will craft a framework that carefully weighs constitutional considerations, balancing public safety with free speech rights and establishing clear procedures for managing protests.
The NYPD said the charges are over a incident Monday in Manhattan's Washington Square Park, where officers responding to reports of a disorderly group in the park were hit repeatedly with ice and packed snow. Authorities said the officers suffered injuries to the head, neck, and face.
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Investigators say the pattern, which mostly targeted older residents and a few neighborhood businesses, unfolded between late December and early February. No arrests have been made so far, and the probe is still very much active, according to authorities.
I've said that what I saw was a snowball fight, it should be treated accordingly. It was one that got out of hand, but that's what it was. He again reiterated that NYPD officers, and all city workers, deserve to be treated with respect.
"My administration will be Donald Trump's worst nightmare," Mamdani said on Aug. 11, representing the aggressive campaign rhetoric he deployed during his mayoral race.
Most employees in the city are already entitled to take up to 40 or 56 hours of paid time off a year for a variety of reasons, including caring for themselves or a family member who is sick, or taking safety measures in the case of incidents such as domestic or workplace violence.
Officers received a report of people unlawfully occupying the roadway and obstructing vehicular traffic near Washington and Willoughby streets, according to a NYPD spokesperson. Officers instructed the group to disperse multiple times, according to police. Most complied, but one individual refused to leave the street and was taken into custody.
The victim was hit in the right arm in front of an apartment building on MacDonough Street near Howard Avenue at about 10 p.m. He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.
The only things that I have to memorialize my [child] are these ghost bikes. Hightman's father told Streetsblog that he has few reminders of his child, who used they/them pronouns, and called the ghost bike's removal heartbreaking and upsetting. There was also a ghost bike for Hightman in their native Virginia, but that was removed as well.
The Adams administration's zoning push centers on the "City of Yes for Housing Opportunity" package, a citywide zoning text amendment that city materials say could enable roughly 108,850 new homes over 15 years. According to the NYC Department of City Planning, the proposal includes a universal affordability bonus, looser parking requirements and new tools aimed at allowing more housing near transit.
"If we're going to be putting down new bike lanes, we should get the job done right and get the full protection and the full safety benefits of a bike lane, not a half measure," Jason Froimowitz, the chair of the board's transportation committee, told Streetsblog.
