Billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg won’t have to file a mandatory financial disclosure until after Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential contest, under an extension granted by the Federal Election Commission this week.
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A New York judge threw out state mortgage fraud charges against Paul Manafort, ruling Wednesday that the criminal case was too similar to one that has already landed President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman in federal prison.
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Falling ice has forced officials to close the following locations in NYC:
—The Upper Level of the George Washington Bridge to NY is closed due to an icing condition.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio released a plan Tuesday aimed at getting nearly all of the estimated 3,600 people who are living on New York City streets and in the subway system into shelters and homes within five years.
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A ban on single-use food and beverage containers made from polystyrene foam was proposed Tuesday by New York’s governor.
The proposed ban on the containers commonly known as Styrofoam would go into effect Jan.
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A powerful former prosecutor in the New York suburbs was convicted Tuesday of helping cover for a police chief who punched a handcuffed man suspected of stealing sex toys and pornography from the chief’s department SUV.
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On Sunday December 15, 2019 at approximately 8:45 PM, the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office responded to the report of a burglary in progress at the Forest Park Estates complex on Anawana Lake Road in the Town of Thompson.
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The NYPD is looking for multiple suspects wanted in a string of violent robberies in Flatbush / Gravesend over the past few weeks. In some incidents the suspects punched their victims in the face, other times they displayed knives.
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It was cold in Jersey City on Wednesday, but it seemed like the whole neighborhood was standing outside. As I walked down the road towards the grocery store, the first thing that struck me was the eerie silence.
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The children of the Jersey City Satmar cheder participated in the funeral procession of Miguel Douglas Rodriguez, 49, who was killed in the JC grocery store last week along with Mindel Leah Ferencz HY”D, 33, and Moshe Hersh Deutsch HY”D, 24.