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NYC Outdoor Dining Permits Left Restaurants Waiting 19 Months
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/31/2026 NEW YORK CITY, NY – More than half of the New York City restaurants that secured outdoor dining licenses under the permanent program waited longer than 19 months, a city comptroller investigation found. The delays stretched far beyond the timeline restaurants were…
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Watchdog Finds NYPD Property Disposal Rules Broke City Standards
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/31/2026 NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York City’s police watchdog found that the NYPD’s rules for relinquishing property it no longer needs did not comply with citywide standards, while employees responsible for the process lacked adequate training. At least one NYPD division…
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Attorney General Releases Footage in Fatal Gates Police Shooting
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/30/2026 Category: Police Accountability / Public Safety / Civil Rights GATES, NY – New York Attorney General Letitia James has released body-camera footage from the fatal police shooting of 27-year-old Haley Rodriguez, placing a disturbing encounter before the public while the state’s investigation…
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New York High Court Revives Speedy-Trial Appeals After Guilty Pleas
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/30/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Justice Reform / Court Administration NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York’s highest court has opened the door for defendants to challenge statutory speedy-trial rulings on appeal even when they pleaded guilty before a key reform took effect.…
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Things To Do This Week in NYC: October 29 – November 4, 2026
Free and low-cost things to do in NYC October 29–November 4, 2026, from Halloween parades and harvest festivals to the NYC Marathon and Día de Muertos.
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Former NYPD Sergeant Gets 4-to-12 Years for Fatal Wrong-Way Crash
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/29/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / NYPD Accountability / Victim Justice / Public Safety NEW YORK CITY, NY – A former NYPD sergeant has been sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for a drunken wrong-way crash that killed 61-year-old Manuel Boitel as…
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Appeals Court Cuts Sex-Offender Risk Level, Rejecting Prosecutors’ Upgrade
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/29/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Corrections / Court Administration / Public Safety NEW YORK CITY, NY – A New York appellate court has reversed a judge’s decision to classify a convicted sex offender at the state’s highest risk level, finding prosecutors did not…
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Court Vacates Sentence After Defense Lawyer Barred From Presentence Interview
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/28/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Sentencing / Right to Counsel / Court Administration NEW YORK CITY, NY – A Manhattan defendant will be sentenced again after an appellate court found that a judge wrongly barred his lawyer from attending a presentence interview. The…
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New York High Court Says Self-Defense Can Apply in Child-Endangerment Cases
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/28/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Justice Reform / Due Process / Court Administration NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York’s highest court has reversed a child-endangerment conviction and ordered a new trial after finding that jurors should have been allowed to consider self-defense.…
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Judge Finds Maurene Comey’s Firing Illegal, Orders Back Pay
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/27/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Government Accountability / Prosecutor Accountability / Court Administration NEW YORK CITY, NY – A federal judge in Manhattan has ruled that the Justice Department unlawfully fired career prosecutor Maurene Comey, rejecting the government’s claim that senior executive officials…
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Lawsuit Says NYC School Watchdog Hid 5,700-Round Ammunition Stash
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/27/2026 Category: Government Accountability / Public Safety / Whistleblowers / Education Oversight NEW YORK CITY, NY – Former employees of the agency charged with investigating corruption in New York City schools say that office concealed more than 5,700 rounds of ammunition and retaliated…
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Dismissed Charges, Back-Pay Battle: State Worker Still Off Job
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/26/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Government Accountability / Taxpayer Funds / Labor NEW YORK CITY, NY – A New York state technology worker whose criminal case ended without a conviction is still waiting to return to work, even after an arbitrator ordered the…
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Family Questions Charge and Bail After George Washington Bridge Killing
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/26/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Police Accountability / Public Safety / Victim Advocacy NEW YORK CITY, NY – Koran Irvine was driving home from work when prosecutors say a retired NYPD detective followed his car across the George Washington Bridge, fired through a…
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Police Resignation Reclassified After Stalking Arrest, Putting Certification at Risk
NEW YORK CITY, NY – A former East Greenbush police officer’s resignation has been reclassified as a removal for cause after state officials questioned how the town reported his departure following a stalking arrest. The new designation means Peter E. Lavin, 40, is likely to lose the basic training certificate…
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Woman Who Called 911 Shot by NYPD as Family and Police Accounts Diverge
NEW YORK CITY, NY – A Queens woman who relatives say called 911 for help was shot by an NYPD officer after police entered a Jamaica home and found a chaotic scene involving a knife and several injured people. Shanequa Donovan, 38, survived and was reported in stable condition. Her…
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Debt Buyers Targeted Homeowners With Expired Zombie Mortgages
NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York has forced a group of debt buyers to return money and stop pursuing expired mortgage payments after investigators found that homeowners were targeted with foreclosure demands tied to long-dormant second mortgages. Attorney General Letitia James announced a settlement totaling more than $480,000 in…
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Queens Robbery Convictions Vacated After Police Pocket Search Went Too Far
NEW YORK CITY, NY – An appeals court has vacated two robbery-related convictions in Queens after finding that a police officer crossed a constitutional line by reaching into a suspect’s pants pocket after officers had already secured a box cutter and handcuffed him. The ruling does not clear Dajohn Sanchez…
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Court Orders Disclosure of Secret Discipline Against Top Federal Prosecutor
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/23/2026 Category: Court Administration / Prosecutor Accountability / Government Transparency / Legal Ethics NEW YORK CITY, NY – A New York appeals court has ordered the state’s attorney grievance committee to disclose the discipline it imposed on John A. Sarcone III, the senior…
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Chinatown Residents Sue Over Midnight Construction at Rikers Replacement Jail
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/23/2026 Category: Rikers Island / Corrections / Government Accountability / Community Health NEW YORK CITY, NY – Chinatown residents are asking a state court to stop extended construction hours at the Manhattan jail being built as part of New York City’s plan to…
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No Charges in Death of William Huertas After Off-Duty NYPD Crash
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/22/2026 Category: NYPD Accountability / Public Safety / Attorney General / Community Impact NEW YORK CITY, NY – An off-duty NYPD officer will not face criminal charges in the collision that killed William Huertas as he crossed a Rockland County road after finishing…
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Appeals Court Orders New Trial After Judge Appeared to Advocate for Queens Prosecutors
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/22/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Court Administration / Civil Rights / Judicial Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – A Queens defendant will receive a new trial after a state appeals court found that the trial judge questioned witnesses so aggressively that the judge…
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Rikers Held Him 17 Days Past His Maximum Sentence. A Federal Appeals Court Revived His Lawsuit
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/21/2026 Category: Rikers Island / NYC Department of Correction / Sentencing / Civil Rights NEW YORK CITY, NY – James Seabrook had already served more time in jail than the maximum term the court imposed. He still spent 17 more days at Rikers…
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More Than 100 NYC Adult Day-Care Providers Face Medicaid Fraud Scrutiny
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/21/2026 Category: Government Accountability / Medicaid / Public Health / Taxpayer Funds NEW YORK CITY, NY – More than 100 New York City adult day-care providers are under scrutiny in a coordinated Medicaid-fraud crackdown that is testing how aggressively the state protects money…
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Pediatric Health Network Knew Security Gaps Before 825,000 New Yorkers’ Records Were Stolen
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/20/2026 Category: Consumer Protection / Public Health / Government Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – A pediatric health network knew for years that sensitive patient data sat in an unencrypted archive, yet the records remained largely unprotected until hackers stole information tied to…
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Eric Ulrich Corruption Trial Opens With City Hall Officials Set to Testify
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/20/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Public Corruption / Government Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – Former New York City Buildings Commissioner Eric Ulrich is on trial on charges that he sold access to city government for cash, gifts and political favors, putting a…
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Federal Judge Keeps Rikers Exercise-Deprivation Lawsuit Alive
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/19/2026 Category: Rikers Island / Criminal Courts / Civil Rights / NYC Department of Correction NEW YORK CITY, NY – A federal judge has refused to dismiss claims that New York City denied pretrial detainees meaningful exercise at the Eric M. Taylor Center…
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Judicial Watchdog Censures NYC Judge Over Courtroom Gun Experiment
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/19/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Judicial Accountability / Public Safety NEW YORK CITY, NY – A New York City Criminal Court judge has been publicly censured after the state judicial watchdog found that he brought his personal gun into a Manhattan courtroom, left…
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Federal Judge Dismisses Trump Administration Challenge to New York City Sanctuary Laws
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/18/2026 Category: Courts / Immigration / Civil Rights / Government Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – A federal judge has dismissed the Trump administration’s lawsuit against New York City’s sanctuary laws, rejecting an effort to force the city to give federal immigration authorities…
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Rikers Detainees Have the Right to Vote. The System Still Blocks the Ballot
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/18/2026 Category: Rikers Island / Voting Rights / Department of Correction / Civil Rights NEW YORK CITY, NY – New Yorkers held on Rikers Island who are awaiting trial have not lost their right to vote. Yet complaints from inside the jail system…
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Attorney General Opens Investigation Into Death After NYPD, DHS Shelter Restraint
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/17/2026 Category: NYPD Accountability / Homelessness / Civil Rights NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York Attorney General Letitia James has opened a full investigation into the death of a man who became unresponsive while Department of Homeless Services peace officers and NYPD…
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Six Nonverbal Children Spent More Than Four Hours on a Lost School Bus
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/17/2026 Category: Disability Access / Public Safety / Education Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – Six nonverbal children between 6 and 8 years old spent more than four hours on a school bus while parents and school staff struggled to determine where they…
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Mental-Health Isolation Claim Advances Against Marcy Prison Officials
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/16/2026 Category: New York Prisons / Mental Health / Civil Rights NEW YORK CITY, NY – A federal judge has allowed a constitutional claim to continue against two officials responsible for a mental-health unit at Marcy Correctional Facility, where incarcerated men say they…
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Federal Jail Officer Accused of Taking Bribes to Smuggle Contraband
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/16/2026 Category: Corrections / Public Corruption / Public Safety NEW YORK CITY, NY – A federal correctional officer assigned to Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center is accused of taking cash from people tied to incarcerated men and smuggling contraband into the jail she was…
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NTSB Says D Train Reached 28 MPH Before Killing Bronx Flagger
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/12/2026 Category: Transit Safety / Worker Safety / Public Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – A D train reached about 28 miles per hour after its operator had been warned that workers were preparing track protection ahead, according to the National Transportation Safety…
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Family Says NYPD Stop Over Open Beer Led to Shelton Ennis’s Death
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/12/2026 Category: NYPD Accountability / Civil Rights / Public Safety NEW YORK CITY, NY – A family lawsuit is forcing a second look at the death of Shelton Ennis, a 54-year-old man who died after an NYPD encounter that began with an open…
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Cornell Will Offer Ivy League Degree Inside New York Prison
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/11/2026 Category: Criminal Justice / Corrections / Education / Justice Reform NEW YORK CITY, NY – Cornell University plans to open a bachelor’s degree program inside Cayuga Correctional Facility in fall 2027, creating what the university says will be the first Ivy League…
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New York Closes Police Shooting Case After Mental Health Crisis
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/11/2026 Category: Police Accountability / Mental Health / Public Safety / Civil Rights NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York’s attorney general will not charge the Town of Poughkeepsie police officer who shot and killed Brian Czornyj during a mental health emergency, closing…
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Federal Judge Finds ICE Falsified Records After Wrong-Man Bronx Arrests
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/10/2026 Category: Federal Courts / Civil Rights / Government Accountability / Public Safety NEW YORK CITY, NY – A federal judge has ruled that immigration agents illegally arrested the wrong men in the Bronx, then used false records and misleading sworn testimony to…
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Family Seeks Precinct Video After Reginald Newkirk Dies in NYPD Custody
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/10/2026 Category: NYPD Accountability / Criminal Courts / Public Safety / Civil Rights NEW YORK CITY, NY – Reginald Newkirk entered the 67th Precinct on a drug-possession arrest. Roughly a day and a half later, after two hospital trips and reported withdrawal symptoms,…
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Seven ICE Rounds Fired Near Child in Marble Hill
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/9/2026 Category: Public Safety / Federal Accountability / Civil Rights NEW YORK CITY, NY – A federal immigration officer fired seven rounds during a plainclothes arrest operation in Marble Hill, striking a 28-year-old man in the neck while a five-year-old boy sat inside…
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NYPD Retirement Error Erases Trial in Win Rozario Killing
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/9/2026 Category: NYPD Accountability / Mental Health / Civil Rights NEW YORK CITY, NY – A New York City police officer accused of using excessive force in the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Win Rozario retired with a disability pension before his disciplinary case…
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Queens Pharmacy Owner Indicted in Alleged $31 Million HIV Drug Fraud Scheme
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/8/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Health Care Fraud / Consumer Protection / Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – A Queens pharmacy owner and his business have been indicted in an alleged $31 million fraud scheme that prosecutors say used cash kickbacks, medication buybacks…
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Federal Probe Targets NYC Schools’ Handling of Staff Sexual Misconduct
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/8/2026 Category: NYC Schools / Accountability / Civil Rights / Public Safety NEW YORK CITY, NY – The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has opened a directed investigation into how New York City Public Schools handles reports of sexual misconduct…
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NYC Accuses Injury Firm of Turning Assaults Into Taxpayer Claims
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/7/2026 Category: Courts / Government Accountability / Taxpayer Protection / Legal Ethics NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York City has accused a Manhattan personal-injury firm and two of its attorneys of building lawsuits on false accident stories, then seeking millions of dollars…
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NYPD Left 5,500 Stops Off the Books, Corrected Monitor Report Finds
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/7/2026 Category: NYPD / Criminal Justice / Police Accountability / Civil Rights NEW YORK CITY, NY – A federal court monitor says the New York Police Department failed to document an estimated 5,524 street stops in 2025, leaving thousands of police encounters outside…
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NYPD Detective Forced Out After False Warrant Statements
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/6/2026 Category: NYPD Accountability / Police Misconduct / Criminal Courts / Public Safety NEW YORK CITY, NY – An NYPD detective was forced into retirement after admitting that he supplied false information used to obtain a search warrant and repeated false information to…
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Blind Grand Juror’s Lawsuit Exposes Court Accessibility Gap
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/6/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Disability Rights / Civil Rights / Court Administration NEW YORK CITY, NY – A blind Brooklyn lawyer who says he was barred from voting on grand jury cases involving visual evidence can continue his federal disability lawsuit against…
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Adams Case Prosecutors Say Justice Department Demanded Apology
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/5/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Prosecutorial Accountability / Government Misconduct / New York City NEW YORK CITY, NY – Federal prosecutors who worked on the corruption case against former Mayor Eric Adams say the Justice Department made an admission of wrongdoing a condition…
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New York Prison Staffing Crisis Hits 56 Percent Vacancy
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 10/5/2026 Category: New York State Prisons / Corrections / Government Accountability / Public Safety ALBANY, NY – New York’s prison staffing crisis is no longer a warning on a budget sheet. The state reports a 56 percent vacancy rate among prison workers, while…
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How Meisner Training Enhances Observational Skills
by Michele EvansNYweeklyRecord.com10/4/2026 NEW YORK CITY, NY – Meisner training requires an actor to pay close attention to another person. That sounds simple. It is not. People often listen while thinking about what they are going to say next. They anticipate where a conversation is headed, interpret what another person…