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On Friday, a Queens judge vacated the double-murder conviction of Allen Porter. Jabbar Collins, who was exonerated 16 years ago, never stopped fighting for the friend he met in custody.
Inna Vernikov, a Republican city councilwoman, was named to help lead a task force to fight antisemitism. She later apologized for her remark about Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The police accused a New Jersey man of slamming his vehicle into the Hasidic Jewish organization’s Brooklyn headquarters. The man’s father said that his son wanted to convert to Judaism.
Federal prosecutors said a man was arrested after he impersonated an F.B.I. agent during a visit to the federal jail in Brooklyn where Luigi Mangione is being held.
Winston Nguyen, a former teacher at Saint Ann’s School who pleaded guilty to a felony charge last year, is accused in the lawsuit of soliciting naked photos of students and sharing them online.
A gas leak from the stove started a fire that engulfed apartments on the top floors. The man was arrested on Wednesday.
The New York City Council overwhelmingly voted to create wage minimums for private security officers and lift the cap on street vendor licenses.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the only way to close a more than $12 billion budget gap was to raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations.
The man, now 44, said that a teacher in Newark repeatedly sexually abused him in the 1990s.
As a legal battle continues over the fate of New York City’s toll program, a judge appeared skeptical of the federal government’s arguments, but did not issue a ruling.