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Mayor Eric Adams has expressed support for two City Council bills he says will help stem gun violence in the city. The first would require officials to study the flow of illicit firearms into the city and propose potential solutions. If approved, the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and the NYPD would issue a report each December with information about the origin of each illegal firearm seized or surrendered over the course of the year. The second sets the boundaries for the area commonly known as Times Square . The bustling tourist destination was deemed a “sensitive location” in legislation passed by state lawmakers this summer, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York’s strict firearm permit rules. That means most members of the general public are barred from carrying guns within its confines, even if they have a permit. Only a select group of permit holders, including law enforcement and active-duty military, can carry weapons in these “sensitive” zones. “I...

A photo illustration depicting the massive changes at 2797 Atlantic Avenue (Google Maps, Getty Images) Holy cow: A church-owned property across from a former dairy factory in East New York is slated to become a 14-story apartment building. The 362,000-square-foot project at 2797 Atlantic Avenue would include 353 apartments. The property owner is listed in city records as St. Malachy RC Church. Rocklyn Asset Corporation filed the plans. The group is connected to the Diocese of Brooklyn, the Catholic organization encompassing the borough’s estimated 177 parishes. (Coleen Ceriello, Rocklyn Asset’s executive director, has an email address with the diocese, and the organization’s phone number forwards to the diocese.) A representative for Rocklyn said it is merely a property manager and has partnered with a developer who will handle the project. The representative declined to name the developer. The project’s architect of record, Marvel Designs, referred an inquiry to a person...

The New York attorney general’s lawsuit accusing Donald Trump and his company of fraud has been assigned to a state court judge who repeatedly ruled against the former president in related subpoena disputes — including holding him in contempt, fining him $110,000 and forcing him to sit for a deposition. Trump’s lawyers are objecting to Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron’s continued involvement and accused Attorney General Letitia James’ office of attempting to “judge shop” because, in paperwork seeking assignment of a judge, it noted Engoron’s knowledge of the case and linked the lawsuit and subpoena disputes as “related” matters. In a letter Thursday to the court’s administrative judge, Trump lawyer Alina Habba argued that the lawsuit should instead be assigned to the court’s Commercial Division, which is set up to handle complex corporate litigation. James’ office, which filed the lawsuit last week, is angling to get the case to trial by the end of next year — before the firs...

BRIC has brought back its tradition of in-person town halls on the issues that matter to Brooklynites, discussing the housing crisis in the Borough of Kings on Thursday night with remarks from Borough President Antonio Reynoso. The arts and media nonprofit, known for staging the annual Celebrate Brooklyn series of free summer concerts in Prospect Park, had been holding its “BHeard” town hall series virtually since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, but on Sept. 29 brought panelists and a live audience back into its Fort Greene studios. The topic at hand was the out-of-control cost of housing : as of August the median rent in Brooklyn was standing at nearly $4,000 per month, up nearly 25% over a year prior, according to market research by real estate firm Douglas Elliman. Real estate market forces are showing no signs of letting up, while politicos work towards relief. During the pandemic’s darkest days of 2020 and 2021, Brooklynites witnessed a collapse in the residential re...

Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott announced Friday that cornerback Christian Benford , defensive tackle Jordan Phillips and wide receiver Jake Kumerow have already been ruled out of Sunday’s game against the Baltimore Ravens . He also added that newly-signed cornerback Xavier Rhodes , who was on the practice squad but was seemingly set for an activation to the 53-man roster against the Ravens, now has a hamstring injury and probably won’t be able to play. Just another chapter to a rather unbelievable injury situation early in the season. “I’ll get a better feel today on the rest of them; we’ll just continue to take it one one day at a time here,” McDermott said. “You have to put the health and safety of the player first in any situation and that’s what we try to do. If you can’t go out there and protect yourself or play to a football winning level, then we have to make a decision for the player not being out there.” However, even though McDermott stayed clear of say...

Ramy  kicks off the newest season preoccupied with the everlasting struggle between fate and free will. A quick montage of Ramy’s new life — exercising, going on walks with his dog, without his beard (it took me forever to realize why his face looked so different) — suggests he is doing a… More » Source link from New York News Alert https://ift.tt/5on19pP via IFTTT

Photo: Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images The Associated Press reported on Thursday that six Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration over the president’s plan to forgive some student-loan debt. As Republicans would have it, they’re fighting elites. “It’s patently unfair to saddle hardworking Americans with the loan debt of those who chose to go to college,” Arkansas attorney general Leslie Rutledge told the AP. The truth is more complicated. Rutledge’s lawsuit is no broadside against the wealthy but rather a direct attack on middle- and working-class households who benefit from the plan. By suing over student-debt relief, they’re waging class war, and if they win, they could keep millions shackled to debt. Threats from the right and from the student-loan industry itself have already harmed some student borrowers. The Biden administration announced on Thursday that borrowers with privately held student loans will no longer qualify for relief, apparentl...

The speed of communication has put the New York Film Festival, the sixtieth edition of which runs from September 30th to October 16th, in an odd position. This New York institution, which made its début in 1963, was founded as a so-called festival of festivals; unlike Cannes, Venice, and Berlin, it didn’t specialize in world premières but, rather, served as a curated anthology of films that premièred at other festivals. From the start, good reviews and buzz from New York Film Festival screenings have often led to films being picked up for American distribution. But, now, word gets around quickly—reviews and reports of films from those European festivals, as well as from Toronto, Telluride, and others from around the world, have become common coin in the American film press and are widely available online. Now many—even most—of the films in New York’s main slate will already have distribution in place and will often piggyback on festival ballyhoo into release just days or weeks a...

Note: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links, Schneps Media may earn a commission. New York Mets manager Buck Showalter, right, hugs New York Mets’ Eduardo Escobar after a baseball game against the Miami Marlins Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, in New York. The Mets won 5-4. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) If this is a foreign feeling to a lot of Mets fans, that’s probably because this hasn’t happened all that often.  The Mets control their own destiny entering a make-or-break three-game series with the second-place Braves down in Atlanta beginning Friday with the National League East title on the line. They currently hold a one-game lead over the defending World Series champions after a wild comeback win over the Miami Marlins on Wednesday night, which came just moments after the Braves dropped their finale against the Washington Nationals. Should the current standings hold, it would be just the seventh time in franchise history that they’d w...

The death toll was rising and thousand of residents desperately sought rescue Thursday as historically powerful Hurricane Ian, now a tropical storm, hammered Florida with heavy rain and strong winds,  one of the strongest systems in U.S. history . Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis described the storm as a “500-year flooding event” and said Coast Guard helicopters were plucking trapped residents from the roofs of homes. Communities across the state were or will be swamped by the overwhelming waters, he said. “The impacts of this storm are historic and the damage that has been done is historic,” DeSantis said. “We’ve never seen a flood event like this, we’ve never seen a storm surge of this magnitude.” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said on CNN that at least five deaths have been confirmed in his county, which includes Fort Myers. And a 72-year-old man in Deltona, about 30 miles northeast of Orlando, died after falling into a canal while using a hose to dr...

The Kardashians Prada You! Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars * * * * Photo: Hulu The most important time jump on television this week wasn’t on House of the Dragon ; it was on The Kardashians (easy mistake though — Kim often has the same hair as Daemon Targaryen). After the entirety of the first episode covered Khloe addressing the Tristan scandal and welcoming her new son in August, episode two hits rewind and brings us back six months before that, kicking things off in February 2022. So far, the season’s birth-per-episode ratio is off the charts, because this week, Kylie’s the one in labor and we’re alerted to this with supposed “home video” of Kris getting the news, which plays more like a found-footage improv show. To watch this little scene of her scrambling to get to the hospital, we have to suspend our disbelief big time. They expect us to believe that Corey would know about Kylie going into labor before Kris would and had to wake her up...

Corcoran’s Sheri Winter Parker and Compass’ Elkin (Getty, Corcoran, Compass) A hack that shut down Suffolk County government servers over 20 days ago has crippled the local real estate industry. The cyberattack has disabled access to county websites, servers and databases since Sept. 8, making it impossible to verify property titles or file records with the county. That, in turn, has stopped most transactions from going through. Corcoran broker Sheri Winter Parker said confusion over the situation and when it might end means “my phone is ringing with nonstop texts and emails.” A hacking group known as BlackCat has claimed credit for the attack and demanded payment to restore access to government servers, according to The Suffolk Times . The hackers claim to have stolen four terabytes of data, including on individual residents, much of it from the clerk.county.suf domain. County officials have resorted to accepting some records in person, but online databases remain out o...