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The attorneys filed a motion in Manhattan federal court asking that Peter Zimroth -- the court-appointed monitor assigned to review stop-and-frisk -- be tasked with investigating the NYPD's social distancing enforcement.

The white Central Park dog-walker accused of launching a racist tirade against a black man has been fired, her former employer said Tuesday.

In the video of the Monday encounter, the woman — real name Amy Cooper, but widely dubbed Central Park Karen — loses it and threatens to call the police when birdwatcher Christian Cooper asked her to abide by park rules and put her dog on a leash.

The Brooklyn funeral home that was shut down for storing decomposing bodies in U-Haul trucks amid the coronavirus crisis is being hit with a wave of litigation from families outraged over the treatment of their loved ones’ remains. Four suits were filed against Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Services as of early Tuesday afternoon, records show,...

This is what churches look like in the age of social distancing. A Catholic church in Brooklyn reopened its doors Tuesday — but had to be decked out like a “crime scene” with police tape cordoning off pews and warning signs everywhere. “I know it may look like a crime scene, or a construction site...

Cleaner subways and nightly sweeps of the homeless from the system are the “silver linings” of the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday. “I’ll tell you one of the silver linings here: The subways have never been as clean as they are now, and we’re helping more homeless people than ever before,” Cuomo said...

The now-viral video of a white woman who called the cops on a black man in Central Park is “disturbing” — but “we’ve got bigger fish to fry” than pursuing charges against her, NYPD First Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Tucker said Tuesday morning. The video shows the woman, identified in reports as Amy Cooper, on the...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange as brokers returned to its trading floor for the first time in two months.

The white woman who called the cops on a black man in Central Park said her “entire life is being destroyed” since video of the confrontation went viral, according to a new report. Amy Cooper told CNN that she wanted to “publicly apologize to everyone” after she was caught on video Monday morning calling the...

A Republican candidate running against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dropped out of the primary race, saying Andrew Cuomo's lockdown orders have stifled her ability to campaign.