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Two volunteer fire departments on Long Island have agreed to stop displaying Confederate flags and symbols on their property, undergo state human rights law training and pay fines to settle claims they engaged in unlawful, discriminatory conduct, New York officials announced.

Jan 5, 2025 | gothamist.com | Herb Pinder

A Brooklyn man was charged Sunday in connection with a pair of stabbings in the city, both following arguments in the subway. Jamar Banks, 52, is accused of stabbing a passenger in the back on a northbound 2 train early New Year’s Day, at the 14th Street and Seventh Avenue station, the NYPD said. The next morning, he allegedly stabbed an MTA worker in the back and armpit, on the northbound 5 train platform at the Pelham Parkway station, officials said.

Dec 20, 2024 | gothamist.com | Herb Pinder |Arya Sundaram

New York City has agreed to pay up to $92.5 million to settle claims it unlawfully detained more than 20,000 undocumented immigrants beyond their scheduled release from city jails, some for weeks at a time, to allow federal immigration enforcement officers to take the immigrants into custody and put them into deportation proceedings. The money will go to a class of immigrants detained by the Department of Correction between April 1, 1997 and Dec.

Nov 9, 2024 | gothamist.com | Herb Pinder

Gov. Kathy Hochul said she congratulated President-elect Donald Trump on his re-election, pitched her federal priorities for New York, and signaled she was ready to move on from Democrats’ election losses. “We had a fairly lengthy call. It was very productive,” Hochul, a Democrat, told reporters in San Juan, site of the post-election Somos Puerto Rico policy conference. The phone call came Thursday, Hochul said, following Trump’s rout of Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat.

Oct 14, 2024 | gothamist.com | Herb Pinder

The death of Curtis Davis by suicide in a Rikers Island jail cell in July 2023 prompted a quick flurry of inquiries and recommendations, including calls for bolstered suicide prevention training for Department of Correction staff and more accurate record-keeping. But that won’t be the final word.