Important Takeaways:
- New Yorkers have been told to take shorter showers after the city on Monday issued its first drought warning in 22 years after months of little rain.
- New York City officials had already implemented water-conservation protocols when Mayor Eric Adams upgraded the drought warning yesterday.
- Water-saving measures planned for the coming weeks will include washing buses and subway cars less frequently and limiting water use for fountains and golf courses, the mayor said in a press conference on Monday.
- ‘Our city vehicles may look a bit dirtier, and our subways may look a bit dustier, but it’s what we have to do to delay or stave off a more serious drought emergency,’ Adams noted.
- The measure comes after fires broke out across the region in the last few days amid unexpectedly drier-than-usual conditions.
- Last week, a park on the northern tip of Manhattan caught fire, sending smoke billowing across the city – less than a week after a brush fire in Brooklyn´s Prospect Park.
- Meanwhile, New York City’s fire department said it had responded to 229 brush fires from October 29 to November 12.
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- The commissioner of the biggest police department in the country resigned Thursday, days after having his phone seized by federal agents as part of one of multiple, ongoing criminal investigations into New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration.
- At a hastily arranged press conference, Adams said he accepted Caban’s decision to resign and appointed Tom Donlon, a retired FBI official who previously served as New York’s director of Homeland Security, as interim police commissioner.
- The development comes amid at least four ongoing federal investigations into the Adams administration — and have ensnared several of his top officials.
- Adams has denied any wrongdoing. At Thursday’s press conference, the mayor said he was “surprised as you to learn of these inquiries,” and added: “I take them extremely seriously.”
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- Jewish children savagely beaten by man in New York City attack
- Williamsburg 365 News posted on Wednesday footage of a man dismounting from his bicycle and approaching a group of orthodox Jewish children who were playing on the sidewalk.
- The assailant appeared to smack one of the children on the face, kicking him to the ground. The man threw another child to the ground before repeatedly kicking him. The children fled, and the man returned to his bicycle.
- The NYPD said that there was an additional victim not recorded in the video. The police received a criminal complaint that they were investigating, about a bicyclist in the same area approached a man and his son who were also playing on the sidewalk.
- “The suspect then pushed the victim to the ground causing a minor laceration [to] his head,” said the NYPD. “The suspect fled southbound on Franklin Avenue. There are no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.”
- Antisemitic incidents have increased in New York since the October 7 Hamas attacks.
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- The earthquake was centered near Whitehouse Station, New Jersey
- A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the Northeast Friday morning, shaking buildings from Philadelphia to New Jersey to New York City to Connecticut to Westchester, New York.
- John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport are all on a ground stop while runways are inspected for damage.
- The New York City mayor’s office said there’s no immediate reports of damage in the city but crews are still assessing the impacts.
- Cars at the Holland Tunnel between New Jersey and Manhattan are being temporarily held so the tunnel can be inspected, according to the Port Authority.
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Important Takeaways:
- New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced plans Wednesday to send the National Guard to the New York City subway system to help police conduct random searches of riders’ bags for weapons following a series of high-profile crimes on city trains.
- Hochul, a Democrat, said she will deploy 750 members of the National Guard to the subways to assist the New York Police Department with bag checks at entrances to busy train stations.
- The move came as part of a larger effort from the governor’s office to address crime in the subway. She also floated a legislative proposal to ban people from trains for three years if they are convicted of assaulting a subway passenger and said officials would install cameras in conductor cabins to protect transit workers.
- The governor said she will also send 250 state troopers and police officers from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a state agency, to help with the bag searches.
- Overall, crime has dropped in New York City since a spike during the COVID-19 pandemic, and killings are down on the subway system. But rare fatal shootings and shoving’s on the subway can put residents on edge. Just last week, a passenger slashed a subway conductor in the neck, delaying trains.
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- Adams to implement curfew at four NYC migrant respite centers in response to neighbors’ complaints of panhandling
- Migrants staying at the affected respite centers will be required to check in each night by 11 p.m. and remain inside until 6 a.m., mirroring standard curfews in place at homeless shelters across the city.
- The directive marks Mayor Eric Adams’ first major step to address the complaints of neighbors who say they have been assailed by desperate asylum-seekers begging door to door for food and clothes.
- Exceptions to the curfew include requirements for work, school, and legal and medical appointments. Migrants must apply for permits allowing them to skip the curfew ahead of time, City Hall officials noted.
- Anyone found violating curfew three times within 30 days will be subject to expulsion from the centers.
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Important Takeaways:
- Shoplifting surged 64% in NYC — more than any other US city in past 4 years
- New York City has led the US with the sharpest increase in the number of reported shoplifting incidents since before the pandemic, according to a study.
- The Big Apple saw a 64% increase in reported incidents of retail theft during the four-year period between mid-2019 and June of this year, while Los Angeles experienced a 61% surge in the same metric, according to the Council on Criminal Justice.
- A New York Police Department spokesperson pointed to crime statistics showing that there were more than 93,000 incidents of petty larceny so far this year — which is 29% higher compared to the same period two years ago but 5% lower compared to the same period last year.
- LA, meanwhile, saw a 109% increase in reported retail theft incidents in the first six months of this year — the highest in the country, the report found.
- Dallas was second with a 73% bump in the number of reported shoplifting incidents in the first half of 2023.
- Virginia Beach, Dallas, Raleigh, Boston, and Pittsburgh are the other cities that saw a spike in the number of shoplifting incidents that were reported over the course of the last four years
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- Washington, DC, CVS toilet paper lock-up shows NYC its ugly future
- The crime crisis caused by lefty policies has officially entered the theater of the absurd.
- Witness a CVS store in our nation’s capital, forced by rampant, serial theft to pull toilet paper and paper towels from the shelves, replacing them with framed photos of the missing products and a buzzer.
- In other words, the capital of the most powerful nation in human history has been reduced to Third World-style security systems to sell basic goods.
- And overall petty larceny incidents are up almost 30% over 2021 in New York — in the official stats, though many retailers have surely given up bothering to report the endless thefts.
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Important Takeaways:
- The protests that shame NYC: Anti-Israel activist BURN Stars and Stripes outside City Hall in NYC – after demonstrators marched from Wall Street and accused Biden of ‘genocide’ for supporting Jewish state after Hamas terror attack
- The shameful protest came two weeks after the brutal terrorist attack which has claimed the lives of more than 1,400 Israelis, most of whom were civilians.
- A reported 3,000 protesters started gathering at Wall Street in NYC’s financial district at 5.30pm, chanting ‘genocide Joe has got to go’ and ‘Eric Adams, you can’t hide, you support genocide’.
- Someone also left graffiti reading ‘f**k the IDF’ and ‘free Palestine’.
- This is the latest protest as thousands took to the streets across the globe – in Bangladesh, South Korea, Lebanon and Iraq – with some burning American, British and Israeli flags and holding signs that read ‘USA go to hell’ and ‘Death to Israel.’
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Important Takeaways:
- Radical pro-Palestinian mob wearing face coverings destroy Israeli flag in NYC, screaming ‘we’re going to kill them all!’ and blaming the Jewish state for provoking Hamas’ terror attacks which have left at least 900 Israelis dead
- A pro-Palestine crowd with their faces covered ripped apart an Israeli flag in Manhattan on Monday chanting their wish for Israelis to die, as they faced off with a pro-Israel group yelling at the Palestinians: ‘They all need to die now!’
- A large number of NYPD officers were stationed in between the rival gatherings, keeping them apart.
- In Boston, another pro-Palestine group stood on the U.S. flag, calling the United States ‘legit gangsters’.
- One pro-Palestine activist shouted at the Israeli contingent that they should prepare to ‘get barbecued’.
- The pro-Israel crowd responded with their own taunts.
- ‘They all need to die now!’ a man yelled at the Palestinian supporters, according to The New York Post.
- Karen Lichtbraun, who leads Yad Yamin New York, where members ‘encourage Jewish self-defense’, told the paper that Hamas were terrorists, and were not pro-Palestine.
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