Dozens of workers and activists are gathering in Manhattan to demand that the City Council pass the Safe Jobs Act, which would prohibit employers from firing workers without just cause. People who have been unjustly fired hope that the Mayor’s Office will not commit again what they describe as arbitrariness. They want city leaders to … Read more
Police try to track down a man in connection with the attempted kidnapping of a girl in Brooklyn. Surveillance footage shows the individual in question. The event occurred on Friday, May 26 at about 8:30 p.m., in front of number 8 Wyckoff Avenue, in the Bushwich sector. There a 36-year-old woman and her 7-year-old daughter … Read more
Authorities confirm that the two men found dead in a parked car near a Brooklyn shelter were asylum seekers. The victims, ages 24 and 25, respectively, were discovered unconscious inside a 2005 Nissan at Flushing and Scott avenues. two minutes from the shelter in Bushwick where they were living. A spokesperson for the mayor’s office … Read more
The Crown Heights Wise Deli and Grill was packed, doors wide open, as one worker always recounted, when a gunfight suddenly broke out Wednesday morning. “I heard about five shots, yes, this morning,” says Julia Núñez, a resident of the neighborhood. Neighbors from other nearby buildings said they heard between 5 and 6 shots, which … Read more
Following up on a story we told you a few days ago, we have new information After remaining in critical condition, a cyclist loses his life after being hit by a car in Brooklyn. The victim has been identified by the authorities as Edgar Torres Hernández, 35 years old. Initially the authorities were trying to … Read more
More than a thousand nurses at New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital prepare to start a strike on June 12. Health workers have delivered a notice of work stoppage to the medical center. They voted to stop their duties in two weeks. This comes after their employment contracts expired on April 30. They demand a new … Read more
The city is expected to announce today that it will begin requiring residents to separate their leaf debris and other organic-type material such as those collected from yards from other trash. With the measure, the administration of Mayor Adams seeks that this compostable material be collected as it is done with bottles, cans and cardboard. … Read more
They file charges against a 16-year-old teenager, for allegedly shooting the driver of a train in service in the face with a pellet gun. The event occurred on Saturday afternoon, at the Borough Hall Subway station, located in downtown Brooklyn. Police reported that the teenager was on the platform when he fired with a pellet … Read more
A man is arrested in connection to a shooting Saturday that left a man dead and a woman wounded in Brooklyn. Gioliver Tinero, 23 years old, was arrested yesterday afternoon by the agents of the 75th police station. The suspect faces charges of murder, attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon for the incident … Read more
The authorities ask for the help of the community to identify the victim of an accident in Brooklyn, it is a Hispanic cyclist who is hospitalized in critical condition. These are some of the images of the person in question who suffered the accident last Friday at the intersection of “R” and Nostrand avenues, in … Read more