NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is taking control of the $7 billion reconstruction project for New York City’s busy but aging Penn Station, sidelining the city’s mass transit agency, the transportation chief said Thursday.State and city officials have sought for years to remake the country’s busiest rail hub, which is beleaguered by…
Manhattan Beer Distributors has announced that the strike of Six hundred unionized delivery workers is over. The workers had been on strike for two days in an ongoing dispute over pensions and other labor practices. The tentative agreement still has to be ratified by the members, but is expected to pass.
NEW YORK (AP) — Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos “remains unrepentant” as he faces years in federal prison for fraud and identity theft, federal prosecutors say, citing a tirade of his social media posts in recent days.Prosecutors, in a legal filing Thursday, bolstered their arguments for a stiff sentence, saying the 36-year-old New York…
The Trump administration has ordered an immediate halt to work on a planned offshore wind project near the coast of Long Beach, arguing the Biden administration rushed the approval process.54 1,000-foot wind turbines were planned to be built around 15 miles from the shore. Gov. Hochul responded that she would “fight this decision every step…
The 2025 FourLeaf Air Show at Jones Beach is set for Memorial Day weekend on Saturday, May 24, 2025, and Sunday, May 25, 2025, from 10 AM – 3 PM. The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds are returning for their 10th appearance as the headliners, The United States Army Golden Knights Parachute Team and the American…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday said he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court and warned he could seek officials’ prosecution for violating his orders last month to turn around planes carrying deportees to an El Salvador prison.The ruling from U.S District Judge James E.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Elise Stefanik, a member of House Republican leadership and onetime nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is considering a run for New York governor, according to a person close to her.The person was granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. The state’s current governor, Democrat Kathy Hochul, was elected in…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wink Martindale, the genial host of such hit game shows as “Gambit” and “Tic-Tac-Dough” who also did one of the first recorded television interviews with a young Elvis Presley, has died. He was 91.Martindale died Tuesday at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage, California, according to his publicist Brian Mayes. Martindale had…
NEW YORK (AP) — As jury selection began Tuesday in Harvey Weinstein’s New York City rape retrial, some prospective jurors made clear they couldn’t be fair in judging the one-time Hollywood mogul-turned-#MeToo pariah.Mark Axelowitz, an actor who plays a Manhattan prosecutor in the new Robert De Niro film “The Alto Knights,” was one of more…
Accused serial killer Rex Heuermann and his wife Asa Ellerup finalize their divorce on Tuesday when she attended a hearing about DNA evidence in the case. Ellerup filed for divorce a week after her husband’s arrest. Her attorney says the family has never believed that Heuermann was capable of murdering the seven women he is…