Four state prison correction officers pleaded guilty Monday in connection with the death of Robert Brooks, a Black inmate whose brutal beating at an upstate New York prison was captured on bodycam videos. Two guards facing a top charge of murder...
A former employee at the city’s largest public-employee retirement system has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for stealing $624,000 from two pensioners' accounts, prompting the Department of Investigation to issue a scathing report...
Mayor Eric Adams has thrown his administration’s weight behind longtime efforts to end the horse-drawn carriage industry in New York City, by calling for the City Council to pass legislation that would phase out the carriages and replace them with...
Management at New York Legal Assistance group suspended six unionized workers over their refusal to take down posters referencing starvation in the Gaza Strip and criticizing the United States’ role in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. The...
NYCERS will walk back a policy change made in January that eliminated retirees’ ability to appeal rejections for disability benefits, Rachel Assisi, the pension fund’s deputy director of communications said in an email to The Chief on...
A proposed Caesars Palace casino in Times Square that's backed by Jay-Z lost its bid for a gambling license Wednesday after running into fierce opposition from Broadway theater owners and producers who were worried about its potential impact on...
For decades, state statute shielded the disciplinary records of police officers and other uniformed civil servants from public view, preventing independent oversight of internal investigations and frustrating people who filed claims about...
Transport Workers Union International President John Samuelsen and his full slate of officers were unanimously reelected this week at the union’s 27th Constitutional Convention in Las Vegas. Tuesday's vote by acclamation marked the second...
Municipal Credit Union, the largest credit union in the New York metro area, has been recognized for the second year in a row as one of New York’s “Best & Brightest Companies to Work For” by the National Association for Business Resources. The...
Representatives from five unions representing thousands of Long Island Rail Road Workers announced Monday that they’re asking President Donald Trump to intervene in negotiations between the unions and the Metropolitan Transit Authority,...
Workers at the New York Foundation for the Arts announced last week that they are seeking to unionize with United Auto Workers Local 2110, marking the first time in the nonprofit’s 50-year history that its staff has organized. NYFA serves 1...
She remodeled her Nassau County home, indulged in spa treatments, purchased luxury items and otherwise spent tens of thousands of dollars, funds that were otherwise intended to provide employment and education services for needy New Yorkers. In...
Recently enacted legislation looks to breathe new life into a panel of New York state and local officials charged with looking into the impacts of toxic exposures at ground zero and making...
Three bills aimed at boosting the wages and protections of delivery workers and decriminalizing street vending that were vetoed by Mayor Eric Adams when first passed were approved once again by the City Council on Wednesday. More than two-thirds...
Amid the Trump administration’s cuts to service and jobs programs, New York City is increasing its investment. The Adams administration announced Sept. 9 that it was committing $3.2 million to expand the city’s Civic Corps Program to all five...
Amid memorials for the 343 members of the FDNY who perished on 9/11 and the over 400 who have died from World Trade Center-related illnesses in the 24 years since, firefighters, union leaders, 9/11 survivor advocates and lawmakers lamented the...
On what promises to be a crisp, cloudless late-summer morning, much like that of 24 years ago, the Bell of Hope at St. Paul's Chapel will sound six times today, its knell reaching to the 9/11 Memorial plaza two blocks west. Six moments of silence,...
All of the unionized staff at one of Greenwich Village’s oldest movie theaters has been fired. The firings, of nearly a dozen workers, followed a picket organized in response to operational changes by the theater's owner, organizers...
More police agencies, from big-city departments to federal agencies, are lowering education standards for new recruits — a sign of how much the profession is changing as it struggles to recruit and retain officers. In February, the NYPD reduced...
For years, Republicans have disparaged their political rivals by describing them as socialists. But that may not be the insult it once was for rank-and-file Democrats, who have warmed to socialism and increasingly see "capitalism" as a barb. A...
Before Tabitha Arnold found her own way as an artist, she tried to unionize her workplace. The Tennessee native studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy for Fine Art and after graduating took a job at a Green Line Cafe in Philadelphia while...
Later this month, the umbrella organization of the city’s public-sector unions, the Municipal Labor Committee, will vote on a proposed cost-saving municipal health plan negotiated by city and union officials with two major insurance...
President Donald Trump's administration said Friday that it is exploring whether the federal government can take control of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum at ground zero. Since opening to the public in 2014, the memorial plaza and museum have...
Amazon cancelled its contract with a delivery service partner that employed 105 drivers at a distribution center in Queens last month, effectively firing the workers who unionized with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters last year. At a...
New York City recorded the lowest number of shooting incidents and victims on record through the first eight months of 2025, according to NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch. Between January and August, the NYPD logged 489 shooting incidents and 611...