Author: Gothamist

Police said Friday that a Brooklyn man surrendered in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old woman who was atacked in a Park Slope bodega with her twin. Veo Kelly, 20, was arrested after turning himself in to police with his attorney, police said. He’s facing murder, assault and weapons charges after being accused…

A federal judge could rule any day on the unique New Jersey ballot system that gives candidates who are endorsed by political parties a huge advantage. The debate over New Jersey’s arcane “county line” ballot design has been thrust into the spotlight in an election season full of wild and woolly Democratic Party county conventions,…

Detectives were investigating Friday morning after police found a woman’s body in a garbage bag at an apartment in the Bronx Thursday afternoon. According to the NYPD, officers responded to a 911 call at a building on the Grand Concourse near East 140th Street in Mott Haven at around 1:45 p.m. They found a 70-year-old…

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A 50-year-old civil rights law firm is asking the state’s highest court to overturn a lower court decision striking down New York City’s noncitizen voting law and allow it to take effect a month after it was blocked. Attorneys from the nonprofit LatinoJustice filed a notice of appeal on Friday after last month’s 3-to-1 ruling…

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NYPD officials announced Friday morning that the man shot in the subway system with his own gun last week will face charges – if he survives his injuries. Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Dajuan Robinson would be charged with criminal weapons possession if he recovers from the four gunshot wounds he sustained during a…

A new sexual harassment lawsuit against one of Mayor Eric Adams’ closest advisers is alleging a culture of misogyny and sexual harassment within the NYPD — a department that has faced numerous reports of sexism and gender discrimination against women. Roxanne Ludemann, a now retired sergeant who worked in a special mayoral unit monitoring city…

A new film about late New York Rep. Shirley Chisholm zeroes in on her 1972 Democratic presidential run, which was famously the first by a Black woman for any major political party. But at an advance screening of “Shirley” at BAM Rose Cinemas, a chief guardian of Chisholm’s historical legacy argued that her greater significance…

Voters across geographic and partisan divides strongly support incorporating additional protections into New York’s constitution that explicitly protect reproductive rights and prohibit discrimination across a wider range of individual characteristics, according to a new poll shared exclusively with Gothamist. New Yorkers hitting the polls in November will be asked if they support the so-called Equal…