New York Mayor Eric Adams reacted in anger and disgust after anti-Israel protesters vandalized a World War I memorial in New York City on Monday. The 107th United States Infantry monument, located along Central Park on the Upper East Side, depicts seven U.S. Army soldiers in the throes of battle in September 1918, as they burst through the Hindenburg Line — the last and strongest of the German army's defense. On Monday, as anti-Israel protests were underway in the area near Hunter College and the star-studded Met Gala, demonstrators placed...

If Donald Trump is held in contempt of court again, the New York City Department of Corrections will "be ready" for his incarceration, according to Mayor Eric Adams. In the former president's Manhattan criminal trial, Judge Juan Merchan has ordered Trump to pay a total of $10,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that forbade him from publicly discussing witnesses and jurors in the case. Following Tuesday's bombshell testimony from former adult film actress Stormy Daniels , some have questioned whether Trump, 77, might violate the order yet again and...

NYPD Police Commissioner Edward Caban o Friday cleared two police officers of any wrongdoing in the killing of Kawaski Trawick, drawing sharp and immediate rebuke from the man’s family and police reform advocates who have for nearly five years called for the officers to be fired. In a late Friday afternoon press release, the NYPD said Caban “has determined that two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers involved in the fatal shooting of Kawaski Trawick in April 2019 acted within the law for their actions leading up to the...

Love is in the air for squeakhearts — and city lawmakers want to stop them from becoming new parents. Councilmember Shaun Abreu (D-Manhattan) has proposed a rat birth control program jointly run by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Department of Sanitation — in the latest attempt to quell the plague. Abreu — who helms the Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management — said “ContraPest pellets” would work together with the city’s broader push to fight rats. ”We believe that we need to take a shock-and-awe...

New York City Football Club will eventually have its own venue to call home after the New York City Council approved a Queens-based development project that will provide the soccer team with a 25,000-seat soccer stadium. The $780 million stadium is slated to open in 2027, according to the Associated Press, 12 years after NYCFC played its first game in Major League Soccer. New York City Mayor Eric Adams will have five days to approve or veto the decision, though a veto seems unlikely given Adams’ public support of the...