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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 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...

#8 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...

#9 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...

#10 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...

#11 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...

#12 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...

#13 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...

#14 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...

#15 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...

#16 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...

#17 New York Unveils Rules to Ban Addictive Social Media Feeds for Kids

Sep 17 2025 // New York’s attorney general on Monday proposed regulations for its crackdown on addictive social media feeds for children, including rules for verifying a user’s age.The Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE)...

#18 New York Court Blocks Suit Against Social Media Giants Over Buffalo Racial Massacre

Jul 28 2025 // Social media companies cannot be sued for their alleged roles in a racially-motivated mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo in 2022, according to a New York court that said to allow the lawsuit would “result in...

#19 Deadly Crash Raises Questions About Safety of New York’s Helicopter Tours

Apr 14 2025 // A helicopter ride giving a thrilling sweep of Manhattan’s iconic skyline has long been on the to-do list for New York City tourists of means.For several hundred dollars, tour companies fly passengers high above the...

#20 Two Men Charged with Staging Car Crashes for Insurance Money in New York City

Aug 1 2025 // Two Brooklyn men have been charged with staging three automobile accidents and then seeking insurance payouts from Allstate Insurance Co. for damages and purported injuries.Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced...