Mayor To Ramp Up Vision Zero Crackdown After 4 Pedestrians Killed In 24 Hours
The focus will be on driver safety after a heartbreaking end to last week leaving several families without loved ones for the holidays.
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The focus will be on driver safety after a heartbreaking end to last week leaving several families without loved ones for the holidays.
With no small measure of bravado, the mayor says the city has "cracked the code" to make it happen.
Sources told CBS2 the mayor is facing an even bigger inconvenience -- his own DOI is examining the cost to taxpayers for his security detail while he campaigned for the White House.
The mayor and new police commissioner spent much of the day in Williamsburg discussing the city's response to the targeted attack in Jersey City.
The mayor reacted forcefully and quickly, ordering the NYPD to go on high alert and sending counter terrorism teams to protect Jewish communities for the foreseeable future.
"It will directly take on the hate groups that are trying to spread in this country and that pose a threat to so many communities," de Blasio said.
The officer pulled the full-sized razor out of his mouth. He was taken to a hospital where he was treated and released.
Bloomberg's interview touched a raw nerve with the present occupant of Gracie Mansion, Bill de Blasio.
The fiery comments come even as his own Department of Investigation issues a blistering report about how the city treated the forgotten families CBS2 has been reporting on for nearly a year.
First came the photo op -- the mayor and his new commissioner -- meeting with neighborhood policing cops in the Bronx. Then came the press conference to introduce the new leadership team.
Michael Bloomberg quickly moved into fifth place in the Democratic presidential primary standings, just as the current resident of Gracie Mansion stepped up his criticism of the Big Apple's former mayor.
For nearly a year, CBS2 has been covering the Forgotten Families who say they were pressured by New York City to leave and move into unlivable homes.
A delicacy served in some of the Big Apple's finest restaurants helps put food on the table for hundreds of upstate families. Most of them are immigrants, who now fear their jobs are in jeopardy.
Queens residents still living in filth days after a sewage pipe backed up flooding their basements want to know why the city has been so slow to respond, and who is going to pay for the damage.
The New Jersey city is taking action to stop the program from moving any more homeless families into places where many have suffered at the neglect of their new landlords.
Not much snow stuck in New York City on Monday, but it was still wet and cold as commuters tried to get home.
Shea is replacing outgoing Commissioner James O'Neill who spent three years on the job.
The 28-year NYPD veteran takes over after serving as NYPD chief of detectives.
The council speaker said he doesn't expect to kick off his campaign in earnest until after next year's presidential election.
As of Nov. 29, the city will close some streets surrounding Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall to vehicle traffic.
The sweeping agenda calls for transforming streets to speed up buses and make it safer for cyclists and pedestrians.
He previously said the policy took guns off the streets and made the city safer. Now, he's walking back those beliefs.
Bloomberg says if anyone was wrongly stopped by police, "I apologize."
Under the new program, thousands of front-line employees from various city agencies will be trained to request homeless outreach assistance when they come across someone in need.
Tuesday marks 18 years since the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in Queens that killed 260 people on board and 5 people on the ground.
