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Progressives have eroded safety and fueled tragic cases of self-defense
Charles Foehner, the senior citizen Kew Gardens resident who shot and killed his would-be mugger early Wednesday morning, will face weapons charges and nothing more serious.
NYC landlords — and residents — deserve background checks for would-be tenants
If council members really believe what they say, let them build more homeless shelters and low-income housing in their districts. Leave law-abiding citizens alone.
Hochul's mental-illness plan, though not gutsy, marks real progress
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a $1 billion “Comprehensive Plan to Fix New York State's Continuum of Mental Health Care” in her State of the State address Tuesday. She pitched this initiative as...
Mayor Adams steps up to get NYC's seriously mentally ill into the treatment they need
“If severe mental illness is causing someone to be unsheltered and a danger to themselves, we have a moral obligation to help them get the treatment and care they need,” Adams...
Kendra's Law must be expanded to tackle the mental health crisis in NYC
In trying to make sense of the mental health crisis in New York, the standard question to ask is: What’s this city’s excuse?
Law named after my slain sister isn’t protecting New Yorkers enough
In 1999, Ralph Webdale lost his 32-year-old sister, Kendra, when a mentally ill man, Andrew Goldstein, pushed her in front of a subway train and killed her — sending shockwaves...
How progressive groups like the ACLU make New York City more dangerous
Progressive groups are expert at persuading courts to release mentally ill people in the name of freedom.
If Michelle Go's killer is unfit for trial, why was free to roam streets in the first place?
Prosecutors agreed Tuesday that the homeless man who fatally pushed Michelle Go on the subway was unfit for trial. So why did authorities free him in the first place?
NYC pols have let the mentally ill take over our streets
Why must City Hall and Albany continue to ignore the homeless and mentally ill hurting, stabbing and shooting New Yorkers on the subway?
Will the latest train terror finally be a turning point for mental health?
Either the city reins in the crazies who are making life hellish for everyday New Yorkers or it watches its residents flee — and its future spiral downward.
Save lives: Expand Kendra's Law and other 'tough love' for the severely mentally ill
If the need to bolster New York's laws on getting help to the severely mentally ill weren't already obvious, recent subway-shoving and shooting deaths of two women by plainly troubled...
Heed the pleas of the subway-shover's sister: Stop letting the severely mentally ill roam loose and untreated
Time and again, New York City’s mental-health system releases to the streets people who are a danger to at least themselves, and tragically often to innocents like Michelle Go.
Eric Adams needs a plan for getting dangerous homeless off subways, streets
The subways are the veins of our city; if they are unsafe, the entire metropolis withers.
NY's leaders have blood on their hands in the death of Maria Ambrocio — just as we warned
Just days ago we asked, “Are New York’s leaders waiting for an innocent to get killed before they do something about this threat” of dangerous mentally ill people roaming the...
We know how to handle NYC's homeless
With enough will, the city can repeat former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's success and do better: not just getting dangerous homeless off the streets, but getting them the help they need.
De Blasio needs to face the growing wave of assaults by the mentally ill
Refusing to confront the crisis of mentally ill homeless people attacking New Yorkers may be the worst failure of the de Blasio mayoralty.
In feud with de Blasio, Cuomo lectures mayoral hopefuls on city issues
Gov. Andrew Cuomo lectured the Big Apple's mayoral hopefuls Friday over the slew of crises confronting City Hall amid the coronavirus pandemic, all as Mayor Bill de Blasio again demanded...
The system failed them — then they threw innocents onto the subway tracks
As though things weren’t dismal enough, subway-track pushings have now become part of the “new normal” in Mayor de Blasio’s New York. What used to be terrifying but rare is...
Kendra's Law might have prevented Times Square subway push, advocate says
A law that could curb or prevent tragedy on city streets is not invoked as often as it should be, data show and advocates claim. "Kendra's Law" was enacted 21...
City unveils new $21M spending plan for homeless crisis
Mayor de Blasio Monday unveiled his administration’s latest idea to ease the city’s mental-health crisis — pumping millions more dollars into the broken system. Hizzoner said a recent 30-day study...