NEW YORK-A display in a Manhattan Baby Gap is causing controversy due to its eerie resemblance to a “lynching tree.” RELATED: Racial anti-abortion billboard pulled down amid outrage from Black leaders Gawker reports: We’ve emailed Gap for some clarification, and we’ll update with their reply. The photo raised much outrage among Facebook commenters when it […]
New York Fire Department electrician, Gregory Seabrook, found a noose in his locker after suing the FDNY for racial discrimination. The New York Daily News reports: Gregory Seabrook, an FDNY communications electrician for nearly 20 years, found the noose Thursday at the FDNY facility at 87 Union St. in Brooklyn, his lawyers said yesterday. “There’s […]
New York– Authorities say a crafty group of people ran an ID theft operation, buying at least a million dollars worth of iPads and other Apple products on their victims tab- sometimes even run from behind bars.
New York — A tony Queens enclave once home to a host of black stars – including Jackie Robinson and James Brown – became a historic district Tuesday on the first day of Black History Month.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. –- A woman who said she strangled her 18-year-old daughter because she “pushed my last button” pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree manslaughter.
MT. VERNON NY-A group of dogs brutally mauled an electrician in Mount Vernon, New York. 1010 Wins Reports: Police said two Rottweiler’s and a Wheaton terrier mix attacked Craig Jones as he walked along East 4th Street around 9:30 p.m. “I saw three huge dogs on top of him and he was just screaming. He […]
New York– A suicidal man plummeted nine stories and survived in midtown Sunday when he landed on a mountain of trash that had piled up since last week’s blizzard, officials said.
New York — Just as it has happened for more than a century as the old year ticks toward history, a large crowd will gather Friday night in New York’s Times Square to mark the old and the new with the descent of an iconic ball.
Nathaniel Lindein, a crack-addled burglar accused of robbing nearly a dozen Bronx churches says he broke into the poor box as revenge for the child sex scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church.
A man lost control of his motorized wheelchair and was saved Friday after he fell on the tracks at a Harlem subway station – just moments before a train approached the platform, authorities said.
Brooklyn — A brawl between what appears to be high school students and the NYPD was caught on tape and posted on YouTube. The fight appears to be at the Broadway Junction Subway stop in Brooklyn. RELATED STORIES Woman Says Cops Brutally Beat Her For Not Picking Up Dog Poop NYPD Paid $1 Billion In […]
The Village Voice has a good article on the reasons for lack of Black firefighters in New York City and the requirement test necessary to become a firefighter: “There’s no question that there is something very wrong with how the FDNY adds new employees. For nearly 40 years, various courts have issued injunctions to correct […]
