A former NYPD School Safety chief and a tech CEO face bribery charges over an alleged scheme to win a $11M NYC school contract.
USED SYRINGES were discovered right outside Lyndon B. Johnson School in Bushwick on Monday by an area resident.
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — More than a dozen police officers were dispersing a crowd of students in Downtown Brooklyn at lunchtime on Wednesday when a moment
As a Michigan teen pleaded guilty on Oct. 24, 2022, to killing four students in a December 2021 attack, America was learning of yet another
When Mohammad Jehad Ahmad began teaching almost six years ago, he wasn’t familiar with lockdown drills. “I was under the impression that a lockdown drill
Two years ago, a boy crossing a street in Queens on his way to school was run over and killed by a man driving a
Sãmara Cotto was scrolling on Snapchat when a news headline stopped her in her tracks. Earlier that week, a secretary at her Downtown Brooklyn school
A muffled “hello?” came through the crackling intercom of a low-slung apartment building. Leidy Rodriguez, standing at the doorstep outside, perked up. “Hi!” she projected through her bright yellow bumblebee
Police Commissioner Dermot Shea on Tuesday elevated Assistant Chief Juanita Holmes, formerly in charge of the School Safety Division, to the position of chief of collaborative policing, completing the department’s
Unused W’burg park to reopen thanks to pressure from locals The Parks Department plans to reopen a closed, overgrown park at 50 Kent Ave. in Williamsburg in July for four
New York City schools are the safest they’ve been in years, according to data released Tuesday in the 2019 Mayor’s Management Report. The NYPD’s School Safety Division clocked fewer felony
Facing a July 25 deadline for New York State to dismantle speed cameras on streets near schools, transportation safety advocates are stepping up the pressure against lawmakers they charged are
City and school officials convened in front of P.S. 264, the Bay Ridge Elementary School for the Arts, on Monday, June 18 to urge Albany to move on a bill
BY ANGY ALTAMIRANO A day after autistic teen Avonte Oquendo was laid to rest, one politician announced legislation that could help prevent a similar tragedy from happening. Avonte, 14, was last seen
BY KRISTIN PETTIT A new school year has just begun. For moms across the country, like me, that means shaking off the carefree, “that’s good enough” practices of summer and
We applaud the citys Department of Transportation for instituting a School Safety Zone along Ridge Boulevard between 84th and 92nd Streets.
That short stretch of road has four schools Adelphi Academy, P.S. 185, DGK Holy Cross School and Visitation Academy alon …
Borough Safety Director Frank Jordan laid out the city’s school safety plans at Community Education Council District 21’s monthly meeting on Wednesday, February 6 at Seth Low Junior High School.
All students and staff at P.S. 58, The Carroll School, were evacuated early this morning — Thursday, January 31 — after someone called the school and reported that a bomb
Planning for the anticipated redesign of Brooklyn’s FourthAvenue continues apace as city planners with the Department ofTransportation (DOT) meet with community leaders in Sunset Park,Park Slope, Downtown Brooklyn and Bay Ridge to get feedback on thebiggest problems that residents face in using t …
The issue of how to deal with school overcrowding in southwestBrooklyn is taking center stage again as the Department ofEducation’s (DOE) proposal to rezone a portion of School District21 is coming up for a vote by the local parent advisory group,Community Education Council 21, this Wednesday, De …
Bensonhurst residents are fuming over a Department ofTransportation (DOT) proposal to reduce the number of lanes oftraffic on Avenue P and Stillwell Avenue.
If DOT gets its way, Avenue P between Stillwell and McDonaldAvenues as well as Stillwell Avenue between Bay Parkway and 86thStreet wi …