By: Chaya Abecassis The New York Police Department has opened a formal Internal Affairs investigation into the conduct of senior leadership during last week’s volatile pro-Hamas demonstration outside Park East Synagogue, a storied Jewish institution on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. As VIN News reported on Saturday evening, the incident has become a flashpoint in the […]

By: Abe Wertenheim Astoria, once known primarily as a working-class enclave of Greek tavernas, mom-and-pop storefronts, and union households, is fast becoming something very different: a proving ground for New York City’s most ascendant political faction, the Democratic Socialists of America. According to a report that appeared on Saturday in The New York Post, the […]

By: Jerome Brookshire New York City stands once again at an ideological precipice, edging closer to what critics warn is a dramatic restructuring of private property rights unprecedented in the city’s modern history. The legislative flashpoint is the increasingly controversial Community Opportunity for Purchase Act, known as COPA, a bill that the Council’s dominant left-wing […]

By: Tzirel Rosenblatt In a dramatic realignment of power inside New York City’s political architecture, Councilwoman Julie Menin announced on Wednesday that she has secured what she called “super majority” support in her bid to become the next speaker of the New York City Council. The news, first reported on Wednesday in The New York […]

By: TJVNews.com Starbucks has agreed to pay almost $39 million in restitution and penalties after The Associated Press (AP) reported that New York City regulators found the coffee giant repeatedly violated the city’s Fair Workweek law, depriving thousands of workers of stable schedules and reliable income. According to AP, city officials announced Monday that more […]

By: Cora Lewis Chain stores have Black Friday. Online marketplaces have Cyber Monday. For local businesses, it’s Small Business Saturday. In the last 20 years, more segments of the retail industry have vied for their own piece of the holiday shopping season. The travel trade has firmly joined the trend with another post-Thanksgiving sales push: […]

By the time Carter entered the game, the Patriots already had built a 17-0 lead.

A faceless Baby Jesus statue was taken from a Christmas Nativity scene in Belgium after a conservative leader compared the figures to “zombies.”