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Mayor Bill de Blasio’s budget proposal would delay the expansion of the Civilian Complaint Review Board that was ordered under changes to the city charter for at least one year, a new city report revealed. The analysis by the city’s Independent Budget Office uncovered that the spending plan de Blasio submitted to the City Council...

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced Friday that his office won’t prosecute protesters for low-level offenses. Vance said in a statement that he won’t pursue raps involving unlawful assembly,  disorderly conduct and “other protest-related charges where appropriate” — as people around the city continue to demonstrate against cases of excessive police force amid the Minneapolis...

New York City educators are mounting a letter-writing campaign to urge Mayor Bill de Blasio and city and state lawmakers to dramatically slash funding to the police department and instead divert millions of dollars to public schools. The campaign, launched by Brooklyn MS 839 principal Michael Perlberg and first reported by Chalkbeat, has garnered more...

A Manhattan man claims in a new lawsuit that Mayor Bill de Blasio and top NYPD brass have violated his constitutional rights by enforcing an 8 p.m. curfew in New York amid citywide protests and unrest this week. William Hamilton of Morningside Heights said in the Manhattan federal court complaint that the curfew limits his...

New York City braced for its 10th straight night of protests Friday, with rallies planned throughout the city despite a steady rain and a looming 8 p.m. curfew. By sunset, a group of more than 1,000 soggy protesters were already marching past dozens of cops stationed on Court Street and onto Atlantic Avenue in Cobble...

New York City’s first step to reopening its economy after the coronavirus pandemic will allow 32,000 city construction sites to reopen and put hardhats back on the job, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday. “That means a lot of New Yorkers will come back to work but it has to be safe, it has to...

The number of hospital admissions across the city spiked to 84 Friday, a day after just 48 were recorded, according to Mayor de Blasio.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday said Buffalo police shoving a 75-year-old protester, causing him to fall and bash his head, was “fundamentally offensive.”

The unidentified man "told police he was an essential worker" but actually "had not made any deliveries that day and was not making any delivery at the time," an NYPD rep said.

The NYPD has come under fire for how police handled the Mott Haven demonstration, which was organized by Decolonize This Place.