The Daily News' report was true. The Observer now has the statement from the Manhattan D.A.'s office concerning Good Day New York host—and police comissioner Ray Kelly's son—Greg Kelly, and the sexual assault accusations against him. Via a spokesperson from the D.A.'s office: Read More
The New York Daily News is reporting that Greg Kelly—son of police commissioner Ray Kelly and the host of Good Day NY—will not be charged by the Manhattan D.A. with any criminal complaint following an accusation that he sexually assaulted a woman. Read More
As we reported last week, New York is one of the few states where the sport of mixed martial arts is still illegal. The Ultimate Fighting Championship, MMA's biggest league, has lobbied for years to get this changed so they could hold lucrative live events at venues like Madison Square Garden.
But so far they have had no luck with politics. So today Zuffa, the league's parent, took a different tack. The UFC sued New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. to overturn that state's 1997 law banning Mixed Martial Arts on the grounds that the ban violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
"This is mixed martial arts, emphasis on the arts," said Barry Friedman, the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Constituional Law at NYU. "The reason these atheletes are suing is because they have been prevented from their self-expression on some of the biggest stages in the nation." Read More
It's not every day an email about the Girl Scouts arrives in our inbox. And, hey, it's still 67 days until cookie season, according to the up-to-the-second countdown on the company's website. Why, then, did we receive a Tagalong-flavored dispatch on this day? And why is Cy Vance quoted in it? Turns out former Read More
Yesterday afternoon, news broke that the Manhattan D.A. office was going to request that all criminal charges of sexual assault against former I.M.F. chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn be dropped. This followed a meeting with Mr. Strauss-Kahn's accuser, Nafissatou Diallo, and her lawyer, Kenneth Thompson. Mr. Thompson had requested yesterday that a special prosecutor be appointed to the case; his request was denied this morning. Moments ago, Dominique Strauss-Kahn sat down in a courtroom in Lower Manhattan, and received a verdict on his long-contested innocence: the case against him has collapsed. He is a free man, and the conclusion of his long, strange, epic entanglement with the American judicial system has officially began.
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Puritan Avenue in Queens leads through Forest Hills Gardens, a serene enclave in the city, where 100-year-old homes evoke the English countryside. At the corner of Puritan and Greenway North, shaded by an expansive beech tree, is a $1.8 million brick Tudor. Unlike the immaculate neighboring lots, the grounds on this house aren't particularly well Read More
Gerson, a Democratic Council incumbent facing a competitive primary, at one point was heard telling one senior, "I'll get re-elected, then I'll get married."
Gerson, Read More
Here's a giant poster hung up at the intersection of 134th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard, highlighting the support Manhattan district attorney candidate Cy Vance has from the Amsterdam News and David Dinkins, among others.
Across the street, a woman was handing out fliers for Leslie Crocker Snyder.
In a primary in which turnout is expected to be low, advertising like this could be get the attention of Manhattanites who may not have noticed there's Read More
Leslie Crocker Snyder hoisted her granddaughter onto her hip, kissed her on the cheek and said, “Hopefully she won’t have to face the kind of discrimination that many of us had to face, [like] when the D.A. asked me for a letter of permission from my husband to go to the homicide bureau. She won’t Read More
Two out of the three Democratic candidates for Manhattan district attorney said they are gun owners, they said during a debate at WABC’s studios in Manhattan.
Leslie Crocker Snyder said she got a gun “at the suggestion of the police department when I had the death threats” while she was a judge during the 1980s Read More
Cy Vance’s campaign announced endorsements today from 1199, the health care workers union, and 32BJ, the city’s largest private union.
They’re major unions with well-proven Get Out the Vote operations. It’s also worth noting that they are part of the labor coalition that runs the Working Families Party which, as an umbrella organization, backed another Read More
“I’ve been here through all the worst times Read More
Here’s Leslie Crocker Snyder’s new television ad, titled “Seattle,” which says that Cy Vance spent years away from New York City “to make millions defending criminals, mobsters, murders, helping doctors who defrauded Medicare.”
Vance has defended his record as a defense lawyer, noting that some of the cases Snyder criticizes him for were actually cases Read More
Quindlen told the crowd, “Last week in a debate, one of his Read More
