1+ hour, 19+ min ago (424+ words) Immigrant advocates and elected officials condemned the NYPD on Sunday for its heavy-handed response to anti-ICE protests in Chinatown that turned chaotic 24 hours earlier. Standing outside the garage on Howard and Centre Streets, the advocates and group of elected officials did not pull any punches when it came to criticizing law enforcement. Murad Awawdeh, the head of the New York Immigration Coalition, charged that police brutalized protesters during the Nov. 29 demonstration. "New Yorkers, friends, and family members were confronted by the NYPD, and then they were brutalized. Some people, randomly, were maced. Others were thrown to the ground violently for what New York City has been a sanctuary city for decades," Awawdeh said. Local politicians echoed Awawdeh's statements, demanding that Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg drop the charges against as many as 19 protesters arrested during…...

1+ hour, 50+ min ago (272+ words) Police in Harlem are investigating a shooting at a housing complex on Sunday afternoon that left a woman seriously injured. Law enforcement sources said the gunfire erupted outside the Martin Luther King Jr. Houses at 21 West 112th St. just before 2:10 p.m. on Nov. 30. Officers from the 28th Precinct and NYPD PSA 5 responded to the location after receiving reports of a person shot there. Upon arriving at the scene, authorities said, the cops came upon the victim, a 48-year-old woman who sustained a gunshot wound to her thigh. During a preliminary investigation, police believe that two suspects were involved in the shooting. Sources familiar with the case said it is not believed that the victim was deliberately targeted. EMS rushed the woman to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition. So far, no arrests have been made in the ongoing…...

5+ hour, 44+ min ago (295+ words) As many as three downstate full casino licenses could be awarded when the New York Gaming Facility Location Board meets in Manhattan on Monday. The board's Dec. 1 marks the end of a long, two-year campaign to bring full casino gambling " including lucrative table games such as blackjack, craps, and roulette " to the New York City area. Just three bidders for the three licenses remain in the running, though it is not a guarantee that the board will award all of the licenses on Monday. One of the favorites to receive a downstate casino license is Resorts World New York City, which operates a video gaming facility at the site of Aqueduct Racetrack in South Ozone Park, Queens. The organization's plan calls for $5.5 billion in investment that includes the construction of a new 500,000 square-foot gaming floor comprising more than 6,000 slot machines…...

6+ hour, 5+ min ago (450+ words) Every week for about half a year, two separate groups have converged on 26 Federal Plaza, where masked ICE agents have routinely detained immigrants at their legally mandated court hearings. One group prays; the other group protests and holds up documented images of detainees printed in amNewYork. The groups are vastly different, but their goals align. For six months, amNewYork has documented federal agents" unrelenting and sometimes violent arrests outside of courtrooms on the 12th and 14th floors, and every Thursday, New Yorkers with Rise and Resist gather outside the facility in silent protest. "I think part of this group found out about a lot of what was happening through your posts," Jackie Rudin said, referring to amNewYork. "We"re here because we can"t handle the atrocities on the 12th floor. It"s inhumane, it"s illegal, and it has to be stopped....

6+ hour, 38+ min ago (397+ words) Nick Folk's 56-yard field goal as time expired lifted the New York Jets to a 27-24 victory on Sunday afternoon at MetLife Stadium. Forcing a Falcons punt late, a 16-yard return by Isaiah Williams put Gang Green near midfield. Quarterback Tyrone Taylor's 14-yard scramble and a pair of completions to Adonai Mitchell was just enough for the leg of Folk, as New York (3-9) picked up its third win in its last five games after starting the 2025 campaign 0-7. Atlanta answered just before halftime, executing a well-timed drive that chewed the clock and forced the Jets' defense into extended coverage. With nine seconds remaining in the half, Tyler Allgeier plunged in for a 1-yard touchdown, tying the game at seven apiece and shifting the momentum heading into the locker room. The Falcons grabbed early control in the third quarter, largely thanks to Bijan…...

7+ hour, 44+ min ago (392+ words) ELMONT, NY "Home cooking clearly is not agreeing with the New York Islanders, who lost for the fourth time in five games amid this seven-game homestand with a 4-1 result against the Washington Capitals on Sunday afternoon at UBS Arena. Tom Wilson scored twice and added an assist for the visitors, while the Islanders (13-10-3, 29 points) were stymied by Capitals goalie Logan Thompson, who made 30 saves. New York has scored just five goals in their last five games, and three of them came in Friday's 4-3 shootout loss to the Philadelphia Flyers. Ilya Sorokin, who gave Wilson his second goal on a silver platter thanks to an errant pass in the second period, stopped 14 Capitals shots. His giveaway proved to be the difference, as Bo Horvat finally broke through Thompson with 6:17 remaining in regulation. Aliaksei Protas and Alex Ovechkin added empty-netters inside the…...

8+ hour, 59+ min ago (352+ words) Luigi Mangione, the accused assassin of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, will be back in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday for a pre-trial hearing just days before the one-year anniversary of the killing. The hearing will take place before Acting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro at the criminal courthouse in Lower Manhattan on Dec. 1 in advance of Mangione's state murder trial. He is also being prosecuted for the shooting in federal court. During Monday's hearing, ABC News reported, Mangione's attorneys are expected to argue against certain evidence that prosecutors for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg intend to present before the jury. The evidence includes writing in a notebook Mangione kept, excerpts of which have already gone public, which seemed to establish an apparent motive for the assassination. Prosecutors said Thompson, a Minnesota resident who was in town for a…...

10+ hour, 51+ min ago (307+ words) ELMONT, NY "New York Islanders head coach Patrick Roy has the non-envious role of trying to fill out his team's lineup after top-six forward Kyle Palmieri went down with a season-ending torn ACL in Friday's loss to the Philadelphia Flyers at UBS Arena. The veteran winger got tangled up with Flyers forward Jamie Drysdale roughly four and a half minutes into the second period before awkwardly falling on his left leg. He needs surgery on the ACL, which will sideline him for the next six to eight months. It is the second prominent injury that the Islanders have suffered in as many weeks. One of their top defensemen, Alex Romanov, is out five to six months after suffering a shoulder injury that requires surgery after he was slammed into the boards on a brutal hit from behind by Dallas Stars…...

11+ hour, 20+ min ago (406+ words) A Manhattan judge has dealt an early blow to an effort by a group of fellow jurists to strike down New York's judicial retirement mandate. Under the current retirement laws, Miller and Marrazzo, who both turned 76 years old during the current calendar year, must step down after Dec. 31. Meanwhile, judges who turn 70 years old " as Montelione did this year " must regularly prove their competency to do the work if they intend to stay on the bench. In his ruling to deny the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction to bar the state court system from enforcing the retirement mandates, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank said that, for New York's new equal rights amendment to apply to their case, the judges would need to show that the age limits "violate a civil right of theirs." The judges "have not shown,…...

11+ hour, 54+ min ago (424+ words) Amongst the Mets" lengthy to-do list this winter is to address a starting rotation that needs a significant overhaul after last season"s collapse. So anything linking former Houston Astros ace and free agent Framber Valdez to Queens would be understandable." According to MLB insider Hector Gomez, the Mets are trying to get a six-year, $200 million deal over the finish line for the veteran right-hander, who is coming off a down year in which he went 13-11 with a 3.66 ERA. Still, an ace who boasted a 3.08 ERA and a 1.153 WHIP over his previous four seasons projects far better as a No. 2 than nearly anything else the Mets have to slot in behind Nolan McLean." Of course, there are significant wrinkles in all of this. Gomez"s reporting has been spotty in the past, including a story last winter that the Mets…...