A jury on Monday convicted a former state correction officer of second-degree murder — and acquitted two other former officers — in the killing of Robert Brooks, an incarcerated man beaten to death last year inside Marcy Correctional Facility upstate. The verdict against David Kingsley, one of three officers on trial, marks the second conviction […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. More than 150,000 New York City students experienced homelessness last year, setting yet another record high according to new data obtained by the nonprofit Advocates for Children. The staggering total, which includes students who lived in shelters along with those doubled up with family or friends, […]

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Rep. Dan Goldman is calling on the NYPD to arrest and even charge federal agents working in the city if they break New York’s laws.  In a letter sent to NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and first reported here, the Democratic congressmember representing parts of Brooklyn and lower Manhattan points to recent reporting in ProPublica […]

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The legendary illustrator talks with LIT NYC hosts Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel about what he wants to illustrate now that he no longer needs to take assignments, how New York City shaped his work, why he thinks being called the “Vermeer of the Borscht Belt” (the title of the new documentary about him) is […]

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For a couple of hours on Saturday afternoon, the din of midtown traffic was replaced by thousands of marchers whistling, cheering and singing folk songs at a ‘No Kings’ protest down Seventh Avenue in Manhattan.  The demonstration, which broadly denounced the Trump administration’s policies, brought out students worried about funding their education, healthcare workers watching […]

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