The City of Newark, New Jersey, filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the city of New York to stop their program of relocating homeless residents to the Newark area. **Embargo: New York, NY**This image, from CNN affiliate WCBS, shows conditions in one of the Newark apartments it says was part of the homeless relocation program. […]
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Alelia Murphy, a 114-year-old former seamstress who’d been recognized as the oldest living American, has died. ** Embargo: New York, NY **Alelia Murphy, a 114-year-old former seamstress who’d been recognized as the oldest living American, has died. Murphy, a New Yorker who was drawn to the city by the Harlem Renaissance, died Saturday, confirmed her granddaughter, […]
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Please enable Javascript to watch this video NEW YORK — A group of New Yorkers served up a full Thanksgiving dinner on the L train in a video that’s gone viral. “We planned this for three months,” Jodell Lewis, who came up with the idea, told WPIX. “I said, ‘Let’s take it to the train, […]
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Award-winning bodybuilder Willie Murphy gave a suspected home invader a lesson he won’t soon forget: You’re never too old to catch—or deliver—a good ass whooping. The 82-year-old Murphy was alone in her Rochester, N.Y., home last Thursday night—it was 11 p.m., and she was getting ready for bed, WHAM-TV reports—when a man began pounding on […]
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Please enable Javascript to watch this video NEW YORK (WPIX) – New York’s Department of Education appears to have completely lost track of a girl, and the child’s mom is furious. Gabrielle Morris, now 9, went to PS 244 in East Flatbush. Her family recently got a letter from the DOE promoting her to the […]
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Since it was reported last week that he would file paperwork to possibly run for president, Michael Bloomberg has been the most feverishly discussed candidate in the Democratic primary, as he likely intended. But much of that discussion has been negative. The Atlantic’s Peter Beinart argued that Bloomberg had been “seduced by his past political […]
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Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, after saying in March that he wouldn’t run for president, is backtracking and preparing a potential run for a 2020 bid, a spokesman for the billionaire tells CNN. Michael Bloomberg, billionaire and former Mayor of New York City, speaks at CityLab Detroit, a global city summit, on October 29, 2018 […]
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A woman accused of sneaking into the lion and giraffe exhibits at the Bronx Zoo in late September has been arrested, the New York Police Department announced. A woman accused of sneaking into the lion and giraffe exhibits at the Bronx Zoo in late September has been arrested, the New York Police Department announced. Myah Autry, 30, […]
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Firefighters in a New York town gave one of their own a collective and poignant salute Tuesday as he took his last ride on the fire truck home. Gus Buczek, a 62-year-old firefighter and Marine veteran suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer, was transferred from a cancer center into at-home hospice care. Members of the South […]
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President Donald Trump, a native New Yorker, has now declared himself a Florida resident, according to court documents. The President changed his permanent residence to his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, in late September, and first lady Melania Trump followed suit in October, in forms filed with the Palm Beach County Circuit Court. In a series of […]
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Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. NEW YORK — Rex Tillerson took the stand Wednesday in New York’s high-profile lawsuit against ExxonMobil, and prosecutors didn’t even ask him about his alter ego, “Wayne Tracker.” Tillerson used that name to email his underlings about climate change when he served […]
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Source: Brianna Rohlehr / Brianna Rohlehr A Black woman has made history at the New York Theological Seminary, causing major political figures to celebrate her milestone. Dr. LaKeesha Walrond was inaugurated as president of NYTS, making her the first Black woman and first woman in general to hold the title. The initiation service was held […]
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A good millennial is hard to fool. Surveys, Natasha Stagg’s debut novel, followed a young influencer named Colleen who, in her online tryst with fame, embodied the cynicism and know-how of the digital era. For Colleen, the internet was a set of levers to manipulate, its moral compromises as quantifiable and necessary as collateral on […]
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A New York Police Department officer was in critical condition in a medically induced coma after an altercation with a suspect Friday night at a nail salon in Brooklyn, police said. Another officer also was injured after employees of Goldmine Nails asked police to remove a man who had urinated inside the store and the […]
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A night of comedy ended with an audience member being asked to leave the venue after she and a performer called out Harvey Weinstein, who attended the show. A night of comedy ended in a performer and an audience member being asked to leave a bar in New York City after they confronted Harvey Weinstein […]
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Please enable Javascript to watch this video NYACK, New York – Bed Bath & Beyond has removed black jack-o’-lanterns from its website after some compared them to blackface. It all started when a law firm in Nyack, New York displayed the pumpkins along with the names of the partners on the porch outside their office. […]
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Donald Trump’s latest bid to keep his long-sought tax returns under wraps has resulted in his lawyer making a brash contention: As the occupant of the Oval Office, Trump couldn’t be prosecuted even if he really did shoot someone in the middle of New York’s famed Fifth Avenue. Trump is fighting New York prosecutors’ attempt […]
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What’s more relaxing than a healthy dose of Pilates … and puppies? A Pilates studio in upstate New York is now offering “Puppy Pilates,” a class where for $25, you can do Pilates while playing with puppies. While exercising with furry friends should be enough for most animal lovers, this unique Pilates class comes with […]
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Maybe it was seeing House Republicans give him the thumbs-down on his pullout game in Syria that pushed him over the edge, but Donald Trump reportedly had a “meltdown” while meeting Wednesday with Democratic congressional leadership after the vote. As CNN reports: “He was insulting, particularly to [House Speaker Nancy Pelosi]. She kept her cool […]
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Thanks to a bill signed today in New York state, tampon manufacturers will now have to print a list of all product ingredients on their packaging. Called the Menstrual Products Right to Know Act, the new law is a result of more than a decade of lobbying attempts, mostly from people who own and/or have […]
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St. Vincent’s most recent record Masseduction led to a much-discussed Grammy performance with Dua Lipa, and we placed the album on our list of the best pop records of the last decade. After staying relatively quiet after releasing the record, St. Vincent announced Friday that the entire album will be remixed, with the collection curated […]
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Real. Frightening. Confusing. Those are words that you could use to describe any of Rudy Guiliani’s recent television appearances, but they’re also the words that test-players used to summarize the hour that they spent in a newly opened escape room in Queens, New York. The Real Kitchen Nightmare welcomed its first guests on Friday the […]
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R. Kelly (R) leaves the Leighton Criminal Courts Building following a hearing on June 26, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) Imagine treating a donation to an alleged pedophile/ephebophile like an incorrect Postmates order. Well, imagine not, as one woman is actually hoping to get a refund for her charity in connection […]
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