NEW YORK (VINnews) — New York City saw a troubling spike in violent crime this July 4th weekend. From Saturday through Sunday night, nearly 50 people were shot, 8 of them fatally. These troubling numbers also follow a record violent month of June in NYC. While it has been obvious to most New Yorkers that […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities arrested a man Saturday they say supplied glass bottles to a woman charged with hurling a Molotov cocktail at an occupied New York City police vehicle during unrest after George Floyd’s death. In court papers, prosecutors said Tim Amerman admitted to law enforcement agents that he invited Samantha Shader […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus outbreak moved the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest from the Coney Island boardwalk to an undisclosed indoor location but the results were familiar: Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo repeated as men’s and women’s champions of the annual gluttony fest on Saturday. Chestnut downed 75 wieners and buns in […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan federal lockup failed to implement common-sense measures to protect prisoners after a COVID-19 outbreak infected dozens of inmates at the facility, a judge said Thursday. U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos said four inmates who sued over conditions at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on behalf of themselves and others were […]

NEW YORK (JNS) – Anti-Semitic and anti-Israel groups are scheduled to hold “Day of Rage” rallies and vehicle caravans nationwide and abroad, protesting Israel’s plans to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank. These events are scheduled to be held on July 1 in Los Angeles, San Diego, […]

BROOKLYN (VINnews) — At least 1 person has been injured after a massive 3-story building collapsed in Brooklyn on Wednesday. At approximately 4:30 PM, a building at the corner of Court and Union streets in Carroll Gardens came crashing down into a pile of rubble. The building, which has been identified as the Body Elite […]

NEW YORK (JTA) – From the very beginning, Mondaire Jones didn’t exactly fit the model created by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when she unseated one of the most powerful incumbent Democrats in the country. Some might have thought he would. Running as a Black, gay man challenging a popular pro-Israel incumbent of 31 years not far from […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday that he was delaying the planned resumption of indoor dining at restaurants in the city out of fear it would cause a spike in coronavirus infections. The mayor, a Democrat, said he was concerned that if the city welcomed diners back into […]

NEW YORK (Newsmax) – John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City on Monday became the first airport in the country to establish a novel coronavirus testing facility on site, open to terminal employees, airline employees, and airport workers. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a semi-autonomous bi-state government agency that operates […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City lawmakers approved an austere budget early Wednesday that will shift $1 billion from policing to education and social services in the coming year, acknowledging protesters’ demands to cut police spending — but falling short of what activists sought. The vote by the City Council came at an extraordinary […]