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Last week New York’s State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli published a report on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s needs for the near future. In this report, he estimates that the MTA needs $92.2 billion over five years. This is for updates to local transportation as well as expansion projects that need to...

In September of 2019, Christina Cardenas traveled four hours to visit her husband Carlos Eugene Cardenas in prison. Before allowing her to see her husband, she was escorted to the back of the visiting office where she was interrogated and searched. Although, X-rays showed no trace of any foreign object...

After a long 18-month battle with ALS, longtime travel reporter Valarie D’Elia passed away on Tuesday. The adored journalist did work for HBO, the Travel Channel, WOR Radio Network, and of course NY1. She was most known for her infamous “Travel with Val” segments that became popular with New Yorkers...

This afternoon the Harlem Blackstone that Doug E Fresh lost to foreclosure will be auctioned off. The property is a four-level brownstone located at 251 W. 131st St. in Harlem. The Brownstone has complex ownership, as Fresh’s mom, Arlene Davis, purchased the building under her name in 2007. In 2014,...

With countries like the United States, China, India, and others pushing boundaries to establish supremacy beyond Earth, space exploration is entering a new era of global rivalry. With the Moon, Mars, and asteroids serving as the focal focus of these initiatives, the reasons vary from scientific discovery to geopolitical dominance....

Back in March Princess Kate announced to the world that she had been diagnosed with cancer and would begin to undergo treatment. In a video released this morning she says that she has completed her chemotherapy and for the rest of the year she will undertake a light schedule of...

Colin Gray, whose son Colt killed four people and sent nine to the hospital in a shooting that took place at Apalachee High School, was arrested for murder on Thursday. According to reports, the parents of the shooter were going through a divorce at the time. His mother could obtain...

Governments throughout the world are finding it difficult to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), as it continues to transform industries and day-to-day life. Unquestionably, artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to completely transform industries like healthcare, finance, and manufacturing, but its unchecked development could also pose major threats. While protecting privacy,...

Passaic County police say that a car crash in Wayne on Tuesday morning turned out to be fatal. According to reports at least five vehicles were involved in this crash, two of them semi-trucks, and one car was completely flipped over. The Wayne Police Department posted a traffic update at...

25-year-old Denzel Chan was pronounced dead Monday night after he and 4 others celebrating at the West Indian Day Parade were shot. The shooting took place in Crown Heights Brooklyn at about 2:45 p.m. Monday. Aside from Chan, the victims were a 69-year-old woman who was shot in the shoulder,...

‘The Huupe’, a new smart basketball hoop has been installed at Tompkins Square Park. The founders Paul Anton and Lyth Saeed accompanied Sue Donoghue, the NYC Parks Commissioner, to cut the ribbon yesterday afternoon. They invited some local children to come to learn about this new technology and be the...

On Monday night a woman in Gloucester City was hit by a stray bullet while in her bed. Authorities say that Francisco Griffin, her 51-year-old neighbor fired the shot after getting into an argument with a woman outside his house at around 11 p.m. Griffin has been charged with second-degree...

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