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Hundreds of staff members and attorneys at Brooklyn Defender Services may walk off the job on Thursday after their union authorized a potential strike. The public defenders represent thousands of low-income Brooklyn and Queens defendants in court who cannot afford their own attorneys. "The idea of my clients standing in court without me is not something I ever want them to have," Julia Coppelman, a senior staff attorney in criminal defense at Brooklyn Defender Services and strike captain, told NY1. Attorneys, represented by the United Auto Workers Local 2325, authorized a strike to take place at 8 a.m. on Thursday...

We reported on the scary scene that unfolded in midtown Manhattan Tuesday when support columns at the former Pfizer headquarters skyscraper buckled and the building sagged. Mass evacuations were ordered as authorities worried the whole thing could come down. The property is being converted into luxury residences. The situation has been stabilized for now, but there’s still the danger of a partial collapse, and portions of the building may need to be demolished.

A New York City building owner is trying to get out of paying an eye-watering $35 million verdict to an ex-JPMorgan banker who claimed a shattering glass door left her with permanent brain damage, according to new court documents. Lawyers for the Madison Avenue building claim hours of new video surveillance of former banking analyst Meghan Brown taken over a nine-month period reveal her claims of incapacitation are a “fraud.” “Seldom is a farce of the magnitude orchestrated by [Brown] here captured on video and in court documents,” wrote Christopher Theobalt, attorney for 271 Madison Co — who argue the...

Commissioner Ana María Archila was scheduled to meet with Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations, at 2 United Nations Plaza. The meeting between Archila and Iravani was called off after the State Department—which was not informed ahead of time—met with the Mamdani administration to clarify acceptable conduct. Commissioner Archila allegedly did not inform Mayor Mamdani of the meeting; she was reprimanded for the move and directed to cancel the meeting. The development is a continuation of Commissioner Archila and the Mamdani administration’s ongoing use of public resources to advance an agenda that extends well beyond New York City. On...

More than a month-and-a-half after their contract expired on May 16, 40,000 New York City subway and bus workers remain on the job with wages frozen as the cost of living continues to spike. The Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100, which claims to be “at war” with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) over the agency’s draconian wage offer and demands for healthcare givebacks, is seemingly content to drag out the process for months or even years. Meanwhile, the eyes of the world are on New York. The 2026 FIFA World Cup is by some measures the largest sporting event...

A Midtown high-rise was evacuated Tuesday morning after massive beams inside the under-construction building started buckling — sending some floors caving in and bricks raining down under the crushing strain. The 38-story commercial building at 235 East 42nd Street was cleared around 8:11 a.m. after construction workers spotted two faulty support beams bending and starting to give way on the 21st and 22nd floors, according to the NYPD and FDNY. Fire officials said floors between the 21st and 26th floors were sagging from the pressure. It’s unclear what caused the columns to buckle. All construction workers made it out of...

First of all, I’d like to address the absolute hubris of New York City thinking it is “all that, and a pair of leotards”. So what if financial folks settled there? Does that make you better than other cities! And just because the communist Mamdani gets elected in the oh so great city, the rest of us should just roll over to New York wisdom? I don’t think so. New Yorkers must be extreme idiots to elect such a low life. And I don’t mind saying so. As for the rest of us, just put New York on IGNORE. We...

The Mamdani administration is scrambling to ease concerns about its plans to open government-owned supermarkets — but recent talks have instead raised even greater alarms among local business owners, The Post has learned. New York City bodega owners came to City Hall last week for a “roundtable discussion” at the invitation of Julie Su, deputy mayor for economic justice — only to get barraged with “intrusive” questions about their businesses, a source close to the situation said. Ahead of the meeting last Monday — attended by reps from city agencies and trade groups for the city’s 13,000 bodegas — Su...

The U.S. Coast Guard said “politically charged” messages led to the removal of an environmental ​group’s vessel from a fleet of sailing ships gathered in New ‌York on Saturday to celebrate the country’s 250th anniversary. A ship owned by the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater environmental organization was forced out of the Sail4th 250 parade in New York Harbor, ​the Coast Guard said in a statement emailed to Reuters. The ship had ​banners that read “Save the Clean Water Act” and “Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice, ⁠Climate Solutions”. Participants in the event had agreed to refrain from displaying political or ​politically charged...

New York, July 2 - The city's mayor fired his deputy chief of staff Thursday after the aide had the audacity to propose that city resources focus on New York City rather than the Palestinian cause, in a move progressive activists haled as a principled stand against localism. The disgraced staffer, identified as career civil servant Rachel Katz, reportedly circulated a memo suggesting the administration tackle subway delays, migrant shelter overflows, and street crime before allocating more municipal staff time to Nakba commemorations and virtual Gaza solidarity hours. Sources say Mamdani read the document, turned pale with ideological fury, and...

Con Edison shut off power to 10,000 customers in Queens, New York, on Friday as temperatures soared over 100 degrees. This is after Communist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged New Yorkers to raise their thermostats to 78 degrees to alleviate strain on the energy grid. “ConEd pulls the plug on nearly 10,000 customers in Howard Beach, Ozone Park, Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park as power demand soars with temps pushing 100 degree,” 4 New York reported. It gets even worse. 500,000 customers are being urged to reduce their electricity use while the ConEd crews make repairs. Per 4 New...

Nothing sums up the failures and idiocy of Leftism better than this.

A pair of kissing-daredevils clad in dark clothes and a cat mask scaled the Empire State Building’s 1,454-foot antenna to unveil a cringe message over New York City. The duo – which appears to be a man and a woman – were carrying a banner reading “when the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace.” The banner’s message is a slightly modified version of a quote frequently misattributed to guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, which was actually spoken by 19th-century British politician William Gladstone. The woman in the reckless duo appeared to be wearing a black...

Democratic Socialists of America members, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s political organization, have been cultivating connections with Chinese Communist Party officials and agreeing to take pro-China positions, according to extensive minutes of internal meetings seen by Newsweek. The minutes of the DSA meetings show participants discussing contacts with officials from China’s ruling party in the name of “anti-imperialism,” with some members saying the organization should avoid topics that are sensitive for Beijing, such as China’s threats to invade Taiwan, its security crackdown in Hong Kong and abuses of the Uyghur Muslim minority. They also discuss visits to China. Chinese...

How just 7% of voters, mostly young and white, led Mamdani’s NYC socialist election surge. Read today's cover here: trib.al/JoiOyPi.

Chevalier posted calls for abolishing police, borders, and prisons, in addition to seizing private property, nationalizing major industries, and claiming Israel doesn't exist. "Colonizer" remarks on white women In a February 2019 tweet on X (formerly Twitter), she criticized Black and Arab men, writing that they were "Arab men fetishizing ugly colonizer women," explicitly using the phrase to refer to white women. Responding to a white woman who offered a voting hotline number during long polling lines in 2020, Avila Chevalier tweeted, "Listen Karen, instead of worrying about my vote, go collect the 53% of your peers that got us...

New York City Democratic socialist mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, a DSA-backed candidate who has made no secret of his contempt for federal immigration enforcement, vowed Thursday to defy a 6-3 Supreme Court ruling, declaring that New York would "do everything that we can" to keep Haitian and Syrian TPS recipients in the country despite the Court's decision. The remarks came just hours after the Court ruled that the Trump administration can move forward with ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti and Syria, holding that most statutory challenges to those decisions cannot be heard in federal court. As RedState reported...

President Trump cheered late Tuesday, after Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) lost his House primary to former New York City comptroller Brad Lander (D). “Weak and pathetic Congressman Dan Goldman just lost, BIG!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I guess people didn’t like him illegally targeting President TRUMP.” He added, “In any event, this jerk is finally GONE!” Goldman, a former federal prosecutor, was the lead majority counsel in House Democrats’ first impeachment inquiry against the president in 2019. Lander, with support from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), attacked the incumbent from the left....

Primary night in New York marked the first major test for Mayor Zohran Mamdani's political movement, and it was widely successful. All three of Mamdani's endorsed candidates for Congress were victorious, marking a massive win for the left and a major blow for establishment Democrats. Mamdani endorsed in three competitive House primary matchups in New York City, breaking with Democratic leaders by throwing support behind leftist candidates who were unafraid to criticize Israel and push for ambitious economic policies. The biggest upset of the night came in New York's 13th district, where Mamdani-backed candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old community...

Despite her famous family and high profile diplomatic career, Caroline Kennedy doesn’t often issue public statements. This week, she made an exception, sharing a message of support for her son Jack Schlossberg. He is currently running as a Democrat for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York's 12th Congressional District. She said in a video shared to Schlossberg’s Instagram account. “We need a new generation that still believes in the old values. Vote for Jack by June 23rd.” The message comes shortly after news broke that Caroline and her husband Ed Schlossberg have moved in with their son-in-law Dr....