Senator Simcha Felder (D-Midwood) and Assemblywomen Aileen Gunther (D-Forestburgh) introduced legislation (S6802) that would increase the Volunteer Firefighter and EMS State income tax credit for the first time in 12 years.

A man who attacked a New York City police officer with a metal chair, critically injuring him, was fatally shot by the officer on Friday, police officials said.
The officer fired after efforts to subdue the man with a Taser were unsuccessful, Chief of Patrol Rodney Harrison said.

The following is via News 12:
A candidate for the County Legislature in Rockland is drawing fire after he made what some say was a controversial and racist remark on a radio show earlier this month.

The attached hate message was found on Thursday evening in Penn Station NYC
It was found in a restroom near the NJ Transit waiting area.
According to an eyewitness, police came and took a report.
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The shutdown of one of the nation’s oldest nuclear power plants last year is having a surprising, stinging consequence for a New Jersey bay considered one of the nation’s most fragile.
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Declassified U.S. government documents and artifacts will be part of a new exhibit about the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden at the site of the New York terrorist attack he masterminded.
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The officer who was fired in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner is suing the New York Police Department and the police commissioner to be reinstated.
Daniel Pantaleo’s lawyer, Stuart London, told the New York Post the lawsuit was filed on Wednesday and argued that his termination following an administrative trial was “arbitrary and capricious.”

A woman was shoved head-first into the side of a New York City subway train Wednesday in what appeared to be an unprovoked attack.
The video below shows a man hopping up and down and moving about the platform at DeKalb Avenue station in Brooklyn around 7:20PM when he appears to suddenly shove someone on the crowded platform.

A $2.7 billion project to replace one of Newark Liberty International Airport’s three terminals passed a milestone Wednesday as it moves slowly toward what officials hope is a makeover of an airport that consistently ranks near the bottom of surveys on passenger satisfaction and on-time performance.

Skaters in New York’s Central Park may notice something missing from its two ice rinks this winter – President Donald Trump’s name.
The Trump Organization still operates the rinks but has removed the Trump name from the outer boards, the skate rental counters and elsewhere.