Tandy Lau

New York

Public Safety Reporter at New York Amsterdam News

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Primary Care: Democratic mayoral hopefuls talk civil rights at Cooper Union

3 weeks ago | amsterdamnews.com | Tandy Lau

Mayoral forum at Cooper Union on June 2.
Program builds economic empowerment for domestic violence shelter residents

3 weeks ago | amsterdamnews.com | Tandy Lau

CAPTION:(Center) Olga Loaiza, Program Director, EEP (left) Daniela Perez, Children's Rescue Fund (right) Alex Ansah-Arkorful, Bronx Education Center. Credit: Courtesy of URI Can the country’s biggest domestic violence transitional housing provider, Urban Resource Institute (URI), create a shelter-to-workforce pipeline in New York City?
Chinatown residents propose new location for Manhattan jail

3 weeks ago | amsterdamnews.com | Tandy Lau

Manhattan Chinatown advocates seek a middle ground on 124-25 White Street before machinery breaks literal ground. Residents have long protested against the borough-based jail planned in the neighborhood but now propose moving construction to a nearby location and repurposing the two-acre plot for affordable housing and green space.
Mayor Adams rolls out youth summer program funding

3 weeks ago | amsterdamnews.com | Tandy Lau

Mayor Eric Adams smiles when asked a question during a press conference at City Hall in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter K. Afriyie) Mayor Eric Adams kicked off summer by announcing $13 million in community-based safety initiatives to keep the kids busy during the hottest — and most violent — months.
Flaco the owl remembered a year after death

Feb 26, 2025 | amsterdamnews.com | Tandy Lau

Super Bowl weekend was a “superb owl” weekend at the New York Historical for the opening of “The Year of the Flaco.”
Manhattan sees spike in anti-migrant attacks

Feb 20, 2025 | amsterdamnews.com | Tandy Lau

Hate crimes unit chief Hannah Yu (left) and Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg (center) announce Hate Crimes Modernization Act in 2023 with sponsor Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal (right). (Credit: Yakov Mantelman/DANY Photo Unit) In 2023, the Manhattan District Attorney initiated just one hate crime prosecution based on national origin.
Eliseo Deleon seeks to overturn murder conviction for second and final time

Jan 16, 2025 | amsterdamnews.com | Tandy Lau

Eliseo Deleon (left) and Jeffrey Deskovic (right). Credit: Courtesy of Jeffrey Deskovic Eliseo Deleon and Jeffrey Deskovic first met while both incarcerated at Elmira Correctional Facility. They worked together in food service and bonded over regular chess matches over roughly a three-year span.
Fed Up: City held in contempt over jail conditions as federal judge favors receivership

Dec 5, 2024 | amsterdamnews.com | Tandy Lau

Federal judge Laura Taylor Swain held the City of New York in civil contempt last Wednesday, Nov. 27 for failing to properly implement court-ordered reforms in city jails, particularly on Rikers Island, stemming from a 2012 class action lawsuit over unconstitutional detainee conditions. The case, Nunez v. City of New York, was settled in 2015 and required the NYC Department of Corrections (DOC) to comply with a laundry list of changes and report them to a monitoring team.
Black and brown NYC public students hit hardest by homelessness

Nov 27, 2024 | amsterdamnews.com | Tandy Lau

Migrant children take a school bus in front of the Row Hotel that serves as migrant shelter on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, in New York.
Biden's clemency record scrutinized amid federal death row debate

Nov 11, 2024 | spokesman-recorder.com | Tandy Lau

President Joe Biden could not spare Marcellus Williams from being executed by the state of Missouri last month despite potentially exonerating evidence. Nor can he halt the upcoming execution of Robert Roberson in Texas, stemming from a now-debunked criminal science, because non-federal sentences like those of Williams and Roberson remain in the hands of governors. But Biden can grant clemency to prisoners on federal death row.