In a morning press conference held today January 15th,? Mayor Bill De Blasio said he would not apologize for his statements demanding police accountability and end to racist police practices. Those Statements put the NYPD...
Late Sunday, New York City comptroller Scott Stringer announced that the city was paying a total of $17 million to two men and the family of a third who were wrongly convicted of murder in...
Would you take a subway train ride in the midst of winter, without your pants on? If so, you could have joined the No Pants Subway Ride 2015. Held this year on Sunday, January 11,...
Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who died Thursday in Manhattan, was not only one of the most well-known Democrats in the country, he was also one of the most quotable. I thought a fitting...
Representative Michael Grimm, the recently re-elected Republican for Staten Island and part of southern Brooklyn, has said publicly that he will resign his seat. His resignation goes into effect as of Monday, January 5, 2015....
On an unseasonably warm but? balmy Christmas Eve night, what started out as a harmless video stunt that brought laughter to many in the past called #DanceDare made popular by TV show host Ellen DeGneneres...
Christmas Day, late afternoon. Subway train car a bit crowded, so my older daughter and I had to take seats across from husband, younger daughter, friend and her daughter. A few minutes later the man...
Visiting New York City in 2015? Whether you're a first-timer or a seasoned tourist, there are always places to see that are new, that have changed or which you have not seen before. I have...
Last spring, Michael Grimm, the only Republican Congressman from New York City, was indicted on charges that he hid over a million dollars in taxable gross receipts and wages from a health-food restaurant he owned...
On Friday, December 19th, Brooklyn's El Greco Diner on Emmons Avenue closed after 40 years. If you live in New York City, and especially in Brooklyn, this news may very well sadden you. If you...
Monday, December 22, 2014. Three days before Christmas, four days before Kwanzaa begins, and the sixth day of Hanukkah. The calendar says this is a time of merriment and happy anticipation, but in New York...
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has slammed critics of current Mayor Bill De Blasio. Many people are placing the blame for the death of two police officers on De Blasio, with police officers...
UPDATED INFORMATION: The woman (an ex-girlfriend) shot by Brinsley outside of Baltimore was not killed, but wounded.
Two police officers were shot dead execution style in Brooklyn today. The two officers sat in their marked police...
From PIX11:
Police officers turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio as he walked into the police press conference about the two NYPD officers shot and killed execution-style in Brooklyn.
De Blasio weaved through the officers...
New York City has seen several rallies in recent days, in the wake of the Eric Garner grand jury decision and related cases of African-American men and boys who died in police custody. I read...
On Saturday December 13th, a mass?of people came out to voice their anger against police violence in the Millions March. With the no true bill announcements in both the choke hold death of Eric Garner...
With police departments everywhere under intense scrutiny for racial profiling, after the recent string of questionable deaths of black men and children, a decorated black police officer spoke recently about his own experience of being...
A young Israeli student in Brooklyn was stabbed in the head late Tuesday night while studying in a library at a Brooklyn Jewish center.
According to the Associated Press,
"Calvin Peters, 49, could be seen on amateur...
First published at Liberaland.
The Central Bucks School District in Pennsylvania is investigating a guidance counselor's post in which she threatened to shoot #ICantBreathe protesters who were?demonstrating Sunday outside Lincoln Financial Field.
The counselor has since been...
If you live in Soviet Russia... Oh I'm sorry, I mean if you live in New York City and you are a protester or "fit the profile" your right to? movement will be heavily restricted...
