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De Blasio can soon ask donors to pay his $300K legal bills
Mayor Bill de Blasio will be hitting up his donors again soon — this time to raise $300,000 to pay off a two-year-old legal bill. The City Council will introduce...
Fraction of eligible city residents will get half-priced MetroCards
Just 30,000 of the 800,000 poor New Yorkers eligible for half-price MetroCards will be getting them when the program starts this month, Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker...
De Blasio won't say why he's been ducking the NYPD corruption trial
Mayor de Blasio refused to explain Thursday why he ignored the NYPD corruption trial that ended in the conviction of a former fund-raiser — even as the city’s top cop...
De Blasio wants to push for tougher bail for ex-cons
Recidivist criminals committed or were killed in nearly one of every five New York City murders last year -- leading Mayor Bill de Blasio to express "real concerns about the...
Dozens say 'Good Riddance' to 2018's bad vibes in Times Square
Good riddance to bad friends, stressful mortgages and embarrassing dandruff! Dozens of people flocked to a rainy Times Square to unload the past year’s emotional baggage — and pesky personal...
NYPD beefs up Times Square New Year's security with drones
The NYPD is ramping up security for the city’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square with more than 1,200 cameras — some installed on high-flying drones — to...
Children allegedly kidnapped by Jewish 'cult' found in Mexico
Two kids who were kidnapped from an upstate family retreat earlier this month were found in a small town near Mexico City on Friday -- as three men charged in...
City will hire 6 workers to remove used needles from parks
The city plans to hire six workers just to clean up the fields of syringes littering drug-infested South Bronx parks amid the failure of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s program to...
De Blasio's son Dante didn't even vote in the last election
One month after Mayor Bill de Blasio created a new $165,000 position of “chief democracy officer” to boost voter turnout in the city, the mayor’s own son failed to vote,...
Mayor de Blasio has some ideas to reduce noise in New York City
Mayor de Blasio wants the Big Apple to be the city that never screams. Hizzoner on Friday said he plans to introduce new measures in 2019 to reduce noise across...
De Blasio’s plan to safely dispose of used needles is failing
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to have junkies toss their used syringes into special receptacles has failed to clean up drug-infested parks, and the bins are serving more as suggestion...
City corrections officer reinstated after bagels cost him job
His bagel defense survived a schmear campaign. A city correction officer won back his job after a yearlong struggle that all started when he chowed down on some poppy-seed bagels...
DA faults NYPD in call not to charge vagrants in subway platform melee
Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. on Wednesday said it's the NYPD's fault that his office cut loose the homeless men caught on camera attacking a cop in a Manhattan subway...
Short-lived de Blasio official got $23K for moving expenses
The city’s short-lived chief technology officer tried to squeeze every penny from the city for his 2016 move from San Francisco to the Big Apple — seeking $27,315 in reimbursements...
Lawmaker distances herself from supporter who blamed Jews for NYCHA woes
A member of the transition team for newly elected Brooklyn Assembly member Mathylde Frontus has found a new villain to blame for NYCHA’s troubles: Jews. Coney Island advocate Soya Stewart...
Brooklyn man charged with kidnapping in connection with Jewish extremist 'cult'
A Brooklyn man has been arrested in connection with two kids who disappeared after escaping from an extremist “cult” in Guatemala, authorities said. Aron Rosner — the brother of a...
Ousted DOI chief purchased a small arsenal for the agency
The former chief of the city's Department of Investigation cultivated a small arsenal at the agency — spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on handguns, body armor and ammunition, a...
De Blasio's study on delivery truck traffic is six months late
Lateness counts — but not in the de Blasio administration. A report on traffic congestion caused by truck deliveries and a separate study on the hotel industry are six months...
De Blasio wants a $10 million fund for pot startup grants
Your taxpayer dollars are set to go up in smoke. Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to roll out the green carpet for budding pot dealers with a scheme to let...
De Blasio: Capping ride-hail licenses in 2015 might have saved cabbies' lives
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday said that if the city council had backed his cap on Uber and other ride-hail licenses three years ago, the lives of cab drivers...