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#1 New York Central Park Managers Support Eliminating Horse-Drawn Carriages

Aug 27 2025 // For more than 150 years, horse-drawn carriages have been trotting through Manhattan’s Central Park, weathering the arrival of the automobile, years of criticism from animal rights activists and even a mayoral...

#2 New York Executives Blast State Over Regulatory ‘Black Hole’

Sep 18 2025 // At a recent roundtable with New York executives, Heather Briccetti Mulligan remembers the frustration of a businessman who compared trying to file a permit for a $200 million construction project with ordering a pizza.The...

#3 New York AG Sues Zelle, Claims Lax Security Led to $1 Billion Consumer Fraud Losses

Aug 14 2025 // Zelle was sued on Wednesday by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who said the electronic payment platform’s refusal to adopt critical safety features enabled fraudsters to steal more than $1 billion from...

#4 Federal Jury Awards $80 Million to Estate of NY Man Wrongfully Convicted of Murder

Nov 25 2025 // A federal jury awarded $80 million Wednesday to the estate of a Buffalo man whose conviction in a 1976 murder was overturned after he spent nearly a quarter century in prison.Darryl Boyd, one of the group of Black...

#5 Judge Throws Out Trump’s $15B Lawsuit Against New York Times

Sep 22 2025 // A federal judge on Friday threw out U.S. President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times over its content, calling it a “decidedly improper and impermissible” effort to...

#6 Trump $464 Million NY Civil Fraud Penalty Vacated on Appeal

Aug 21 2025 // A New York appeals court struck down a $464 million fraud fine against President Donald Trump and his company, handing him a victory over the state’s attorney general.In a decision issued Thursday, the Manhattan...

#7 NY Times Asks Judge to Dismiss Trump’s ‘Implausible’ Defamation Suit

Dec 18 2025 // The New York Times asked a judge to once again dismiss President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit, arguing the complaint is based on “implausible allegations” that cannot overcome First...

#8 $182M Settlement Reached in 2015 New York Train Crossing Crash That Killed 6

Jan 15 2026 // A more than $182 million settlement has been reached with victims of a deadly 2015 collision between a train and an SUV at a suburban New York crossing.The majority of the settlement with Metro-North Railroad goes to the...

#9 Wealthy County in New York Must Pay $112 Million Over Immigrant Rights Violations

Dec 5 2025 // New York’s Suffolk County, home to the ultra-wealthy Hamptons and the bucolic North Fork, must pay $112 million in damages to immigrants after a court ruled that their detention in local jails violated their...

#10 Archdiocese of New York Pledges $300M to Mediate Clergy Sex Abuse Claims

Dec 9 2025 // The Archdiocese of New York announced it is establishing a $300 million fund that it intends to use to pay for a global settlement of most of the 1,300 lawsuits it still faces from victims of clergy sexual abuse.The...

#11 Court Upholds New York’s Gun Restrictions, Including Times Square and Subway Bans

Sep 22 2025 // No guns for Elmo, Spider-Man or anyone else in New York’s Times Square — and don’t try sneaking them into the subway, either.That is the decision last Friday from a federal appeals court effectively upholding...

#12 Trump Sues The New York Times for Defamation and Libel, Seeks $15 Billion

Sep 16 2025 // U.S. President Donald Trump sued the New York Times, four of its reporters, and publisher Penguin Random House for at least $15 billion on Monday, claiming defamation and libel, and citing reputational damage, a Florida...

#13 New York Says It Follows Federal Rules on Commercial Driver’s Licenses for Immigrants

Dec 17 2025 // New York is the eighth state found to routinely issue commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants that are valid long after they are no longer legally authorized to be in the country, U.S. Transportation Secretary...

#14 Judge Dismisses Texas Challenge to New York Abortion Shield Law

Nov 3 2025 // A New York judge dismissed a legal challenge Friday from Texas seeking to enforce a more than $100,000 civil judgment against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a Dallas-area woman in an early test of the...

#15 New Jersey Seeks Limits on Nonessential Helicopter Flights Citing Fatal NY Crash

Sep 2 2025 // New Jersey’s governor is asking federal officials to impose restrictions on nonessential helicopter flights in his state after a New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair in April, killing six...

#16 New York Financial Services Regulator Harris to Depart

Sep 30 2025 // New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that Superintendent Adrienne Harris will be leaving the Department of Financial Services (DFS).Hochul is appointing Kaitlin Asrow as acting superintendent of DFS effective October...

#17 Trump Restores $187M Funding Cuts for New York Counterterrorism

Oct 6 2025 // President Donald Trump said Friday he has personally reversed $187 million in funding cuts made by his administration for New York’s law enforcement and counterterrorism operations, following bipartisan outcry from...

#18 New York Attorney General Settles Lead Paint Complaint Against Major Buffalo Landlord

Sep 8 2025 // New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a resolution of her office’s lawsuit to protect Buffalo children and families from lead poisoning in their homes.An agreement filed Friday in Erie County Supreme...

#19 New York Says Cab, Rideshare Insurance Rates to Rise 25%

Dec 16 2025 // New York officials have told rideshare companies, driver representatives and others in the for-hire vehicle industry that insurance policy rates will rise by an average 25% over the next three years, according to people...

#20 Amazon Wins Injunction Against New York Law on Labor Relations

Dec 1 2025 // A federal judge last Wednesday granted Amazon.com a preliminary injunction to block the New York State Public Employment Relations Board from enforcing a new state law that the online retailer considers an attempt to...