As if busy New Yorkers didn’t have enough to worry about this holiday season, an old nuisance is growing alarmingly commonplace. Opportunistic thieves are snatching purses and other items in the subway with increased frequency, [...]
It's been one week since Occupy Wall Street was booted from Zuccotti Park in a pre-dawn raid. But there were already signs that the movement was growing unstable and fragmented.
Dozens of people gathered at Foley Square Friday to protest against the NYPD, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg for allegedly systematically spying on New York Muslims after the September 11 attacks.
Patch.com reports that OWS marchers in Brooklyn “will not skip a beat” after the NYPD evicted Zuccotti Park early Tuesday morning. “This is just getting started,” Michael O’Neil, Occupy Brooklyn activist, told Patch, saying protesters [...]
The people of Brooklyn strongly reacted after police officers descended on Zuccotti Park in a surprise sweep of the Occupy Wall Street headquarters. We asked Brooklyn: What do you think should happen next?
Three days after arsonists torched three cars and left a trail of anti-Semitic graffiti, a state of fear lingers over the traditionally Jewish neighborhood of Midwood in Brooklyn.
A lengthy report from Fox News details how one cafe in Bay Ridge fell victim to the NYPD’s increased and unlawful surveillance of the Muslim community. According to the owner Mousa Ahmad, undercover police constantly [...]
Muslim students are attending seminars and learning how to defend themselves after an NYPD officer infiltrated their group at Brooklyn College, The Huffington Post reports. Over the summer an AP investigation revealed that the NYPD was [...]
An 87-year-old man was hit and killed by an NYPD vehicle last Friday, Nov. 5 on Eastern Parkway between Dean Street and Bergen Street, according to the New York Daily News. Theauther Love, an assistant [...]
Jason Arbeeny, a NYPD detective of 14 years, was found guilty of planting crack cocaine on two innocent people. Yvelisse DeLeon, one of the victims, stated during his trial that in 2007 Arbeeny placed a small bag [...]
Sunday, December 4, 2011
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