BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo will replace its police Emergency Response Team with a new “Public Protection Unit” following the suspension and arrest of two ERT members seen on video shoving a 75-year-old protester who fell and cracked his head, Mayor Byron Brown said Wednesday. The city also will halt arrests for low-level, non-violent offenses […]

NEW YORK (JTA) – In the past few months, UJA-Federation of New York has awarded millions of dollars in emergency grants to help organizations survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Now it’s joining the ranks of organizations having to let go of its own staff members as it anticipates declining donations. And its CEO, Eric Goldstein, will […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Stocks closed a choppy day on Wall Street with broad losses Wednesday, despite fresh assurances from the Federal Reserve that it would keep interest rates low through 2022 and would continue buying bonds to help markets function smoothly. The S&P 500 fell 0.5%, extending losses from a day earlier. The benchmark […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state lawmakers repealed a decades-old law Tuesday that has kept law enforcement officers’ disciplinary records secret, spurred by the national uproar over the death of George Floyd. The measure to make officers’ records and misconduct complaints public is among several police accountability bills racing through the state legislature. Others […]

NEW YORK (VINnews/Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer) — Although my wife and I are proud residents of the great New York City urban wonder, we realize that our children desperately need a change of scenery during the summer. They need to be in a place they can play, relax, reenergize and be inspired. While day camps provide […]

BROOKLYN, NY (VINnews) – An NYPD officer has been placed on modified duty after a video circulating on social media shows him drive by demonstrators on Classon Ave in Brooklyn and opened passenger side door into a protester. According to a statement released Tuesday by Police Commissioner Dermot Shea. “As I’ve pledged to do, I […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer who was caught on video violently shoving a woman to the ground during a recent protest over the death of George Floyd is facing criminal charges, Brooklyn prosecutors announced Tuesday. Officer Vincent D’Andraia was charged with assault, criminal mischief, harassment and menacing in the May […]

NEW YORK (VINnews)- New video has surfaced showing volunteer organization of unarmed citizens Guardian Angles founder Curtis Sliwa in a confrontation with looters throwing objects at him. The incident occurred last week Tuesday night at height of the violent protests in Manhattan. Sliwa told the NY Daily News dozens of looters entered the Foot Locker […]

PHILADELPHIA — A dozen new coronavirus cases in the Philadelphia area have been traced to someone who attended gatherings at beach houses at the Jersey Shore, health officials said. Eleven cases reported Saturday were linked to a New Jersey resident at gatherings in the past two weeks, Bucks County officials said. One case reported Friday […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — As protesters of police brutality demand accountability, New York lawmakers are poised to overhaul a decades-old law that has kept officers’ disciplinary records secret. The state law, known by its section title, 50-a, was passed in the 1970s to prevent criminal defense attorneys from subjecting officers to harassing cross-examinations about irrelevant […]