The ICE pitch links to a recruitment page declaring that "America has been invaded by criminals and predators" and promising signing bonuses up to $50,000.
The recruitment effort comes as the NYPD struggles to fill nearly 1,300 vacancies and keep pace with attrition. Earlier this year, Commissioner Jessica Tischsaid the city was “begging” people to join the force.
In response to the ongoing federal government shutdown, the FAA is ordering airlines to reduce domestic flights by 10% at 40 of the country’s busiest airports, including JFK, LaGuardia and Newark.
Prosecutors said five members of an alleged Brooklyn biker gang face charges of attempted murder and assault following a frenzied East Flatbush gun battle last spring.
An NYPD officer responding to a call yesterday about dogs chasing people on a Queens street fatally shot a dog after getting bit, officials said.
"Fan Man," the high-flying Brooklyn hobbyist who says he did not jump off the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge with a parachute but rather flew near it with his homemade rig, has emerged as something of a people's champ.
Would you be willing to wait in line to see "Napoleon," Abel Gance's nearly six-hour silent film from 1927? A lot of other New Yorkers are.
The Anti-Defamation League launched a tip line for anything coming out of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's administration that could be construed as antisemitic.
Prominent real estate firm JLL yesterday fired a top broker who responded to a company-wide email about working collaboratively with the incoming mayor by comparing Mamdani to Hitler and complaining that he didn't want to hear Islamic prayers being broadcast from City Hall.
The City reports that pro-Andrew Cuomo Super PACs effectively spent about $65 per vote for the runner-up, while independent groups backing Mamdani spent $15.81 per vote.
The 51-year-old vagabond who wrecked his sailboat on a Jersey Shore beach and was taken in by loving locals is losing some goodwill after failing to move the boat in over a month. (Sea Girt locals have also discovered his past felony convictions, which include fraud and selling cocaine.)
The Washington, D.C. man who threw a sandwich at a federal officer has been found not guilty of assault.
The number of overdose deaths per 100,000 residents on Staten Island last year fell by nearly 50%, compared with 28% citywide, according to a city health department report released last week. The borough was once known for the highest rate of overdose deaths in the city, before being outpaced by the Bronx.
"We will be building out a timeline to fulfill our commitment for universal child care and to do so by not only reckoning with the ways in which the Adams’ administration has made it harder to afford raising a child in the city, but also by going beyond that to the final point of having every child from six weeks to five years of age receiving that child care," Mamdani said.
Despite its ripped-from-the-headlines quality, “Queens” is not set in the present-day: A previous iteration premiered in 2018 at Lincoln Center’s Clair Tow Theater.
