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It's Wednesday in New York City, where the NYPD isn't obligated to protect you from an angry mob, according to city lawyers.
Back in 2025, a woman named Amanda Luci said she was surrounded, kicked and threatened by a large group of Orthodox Jewish men in Crown Heights after they mistook her for a pro-Palestinian protester.
In a lawsuit filed against the NYPD, Luci argued that the police officers who responded to the scene failed to protect her — and emboldened the mob by doing nothing to quell the situation.
But in a new court filing, city lawyers argued that the NYPD is not constitutionally required to help someone in that case.
Legal experts who spoke with Gothamist agreed that the Constitution generally does not require cops to protect people. But they said there are exceptions, which may apply to Luci’s case.
Federal transportation investigators yesterday pointed to two key areas under scrutiny in Sunday's deadly runway collision at LaGuardia Airport: The fire truck involved was not equipped with a transponder and only two air traffic controllers were on duty at the time.
City officials are shutting down the old East New York entry point for homeless women entering the shelter system and opening a new, state-of-the-art site a few blocks away.
The city education department released its long-awaited guidance on artificial intelligence yesterday, rolling out a “traffic-light approach” for New York City’s 78,000 teachers that allows the technology in some cases, prohibits it in others and urges caution in areas that fall in between.
Dennis Ostermann, the controller for the NYPD sergeants union who pleaded guilty to helping his former boss steal $150,000, has been sentenced to two years of probation but no jail time.
It's time forBest New York City Movie Made in the 21st Century Madness.
“This is not only a truly major exhibition, but quite honestly, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Raphael in that way in the United States,” Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Max Hollein said of the upcoming exhibit. “It is not going to happen again in this generation and the next.”
The long-stalled plan to build a platform and new apartment buildings above the train tracks at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards may soon get a major cash infusion, not from developers but from New York state itself.
