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- The earthquake was centered near Whitehouse Station, New Jersey
- A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the Northeast Friday morning, shaking buildings from Philadelphia to New Jersey to New York City to Connecticut to Westchester, New York.
- John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport are all on a ground stop while runways are inspected for damage.
- The New York City mayor’s office said there’s no immediate reports of damage in the city but crews are still assessing the impacts.
- Cars at the Holland Tunnel between New Jersey and Manhattan are being temporarily held so the tunnel can be inspected, according to the Port Authority.
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- New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced plans Wednesday to send the National Guard to the New York City subway system to help police conduct random searches of riders’ bags for weapons following a series of high-profile crimes on city trains.
- Hochul, a Democrat, said she will deploy 750 members of the National Guard to the subways to assist the New York Police Department with bag checks at entrances to busy train stations.
- The move came as part of a larger effort from the governor’s office to address crime in the subway. She also floated a legislative proposal to ban people from trains for three years if they are convicted of assaulting a subway passenger and said officials would install cameras in conductor cabins to protect transit workers.
- The governor said she will also send 250 state troopers and police officers from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a state agency, to help with the bag searches.
- Overall, crime has dropped in New York City since a spike during the COVID-19 pandemic, and killings are down on the subway system. But rare fatal shootings and shoving’s on the subway can put residents on edge. Just last week, a passenger slashed a subway conductor in the neck, delaying trains.
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- Adams to implement curfew at four NYC migrant respite centers in response to neighbors’ complaints of panhandling
- Migrants staying at the affected respite centers will be required to check in each night by 11 p.m. and remain inside until 6 a.m., mirroring standard curfews in place at homeless shelters across the city.
- The directive marks Mayor Eric Adams’ first major step to address the complaints of neighbors who say they have been assailed by desperate asylum-seekers begging door to door for food and clothes.
- Exceptions to the curfew include requirements for work, school, and legal and medical appointments. Migrants must apply for permits allowing them to skip the curfew ahead of time, City Hall officials noted.
- Anyone found violating curfew three times within 30 days will be subject to expulsion from the centers.
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- Shoplifting surged 64% in NYC — more than any other US city in past 4 years
- New York City has led the US with the sharpest increase in the number of reported shoplifting incidents since before the pandemic, according to a study.
- The Big Apple saw a 64% increase in reported incidents of retail theft during the four-year period between mid-2019 and June of this year, while Los Angeles experienced a 61% surge in the same metric, according to the Council on Criminal Justice.
- A New York Police Department spokesperson pointed to crime statistics showing that there were more than 93,000 incidents of petty larceny so far this year — which is 29% higher compared to the same period two years ago but 5% lower compared to the same period last year.
- LA, meanwhile, saw a 109% increase in reported retail theft incidents in the first six months of this year — the highest in the country, the report found.
- Dallas was second with a 73% bump in the number of reported shoplifting incidents in the first half of 2023.
- Virginia Beach, Dallas, Raleigh, Boston, and Pittsburgh are the other cities that saw a spike in the number of shoplifting incidents that were reported over the course of the last four years
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- Washington, DC, CVS toilet paper lock-up shows NYC its ugly future
- The crime crisis caused by lefty policies has officially entered the theater of the absurd.
- Witness a CVS store in our nation’s capital, forced by rampant, serial theft to pull toilet paper and paper towels from the shelves, replacing them with framed photos of the missing products and a buzzer.
- In other words, the capital of the most powerful nation in human history has been reduced to Third World-style security systems to sell basic goods.
- And overall petty larceny incidents are up almost 30% over 2021 in New York — in the official stats, though many retailers have surely given up bothering to report the endless thefts.
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- The protests that shame NYC: Anti-Israel activist BURN Stars and Stripes outside City Hall in NYC – after demonstrators marched from Wall Street and accused Biden of ‘genocide’ for supporting Jewish state after Hamas terror attack
- The shameful protest came two weeks after the brutal terrorist attack which has claimed the lives of more than 1,400 Israelis, most of whom were civilians.
- A reported 3,000 protesters started gathering at Wall Street in NYC’s financial district at 5.30pm, chanting ‘genocide Joe has got to go’ and ‘Eric Adams, you can’t hide, you support genocide’.
- Someone also left graffiti reading ‘f**k the IDF’ and ‘free Palestine’.
- This is the latest protest as thousands took to the streets across the globe – in Bangladesh, South Korea, Lebanon and Iraq – with some burning American, British and Israeli flags and holding signs that read ‘USA go to hell’ and ‘Death to Israel.’
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- Radical pro-Palestinian mob wearing face coverings destroy Israeli flag in NYC, screaming ‘we’re going to kill them all!’ and blaming the Jewish state for provoking Hamas’ terror attacks which have left at least 900 Israelis dead
- A pro-Palestine crowd with their faces covered ripped apart an Israeli flag in Manhattan on Monday chanting their wish for Israelis to die, as they faced off with a pro-Israel group yelling at the Palestinians: ‘They all need to die now!’
- A large number of NYPD officers were stationed in between the rival gatherings, keeping them apart.
- In Boston, another pro-Palestine group stood on the U.S. flag, calling the United States ‘legit gangsters’.
- One pro-Palestine activist shouted at the Israeli contingent that they should prepare to ‘get barbecued’.
- The pro-Israel crowd responded with their own taunts.
- ‘They all need to die now!’ a man yelled at the Palestinian supporters, according to The New York Post.
- Karen Lichtbraun, who leads Yad Yamin New York, where members ‘encourage Jewish self-defense’, told the paper that Hamas were terrorists, and were not pro-Palestine.
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- Heavy rain and flooding on Friday making for an extremely challenging and dangerous Friday morning commute and led to subway and rail service suspensions and the closure of a terminal at LaGuardia Airport.
- Parts of New York City have already seen five inches of rain as of 11 a.m.
- Flash flood warnings were issued for much of NYC and surrounding counties in New Jersey, the Hudson Valley and into Connecticut into the early afternoon, and were likely to be extended further.
- Flooding is possible for much of the tri-state area as a result of the heavy rain, which comes as the ground is already water-logged due to the remnants of Ophelia that drenched the region last weekend.
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- A New York City man is in custody after brutally attacking and killing a mother with a hammer, while leaving her two young children fighting for their lives on Wednesday, according to police.
- When the officers arrived, they quickly apprehended the suspect who was trying to walk out of the building and placed him under arrest.
- Chell said the suspect had blood all over his body at the time of his arrest.
- The three victims — a 43-year-old married mother, her 5-year-old son, and 3-year-old daughter — were taken to a local hospital, where the mother was pronounced dead.
- The mother and her two children occupied a room in the three-room apartment. The suspect and his 9-year-old son occupied another room, while a third person occupied the third room.
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Important Takeaways:
- New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday called for the federal government to declare a state of emergency to manage the “crisis” at the border, saying the influx of asylum seekers could end up costing the city billions of dollars in the coming years.
- Adams said more than 57,000 migrants are under the city’s care on an average night and nearly 100,000 asylum seekers have sought shelter there since last year.
- At a news conference Wednesday, Adams said a federal state of emergency would “allow federal funds to be allocated quickly to help address the urgent challenges we face.”
- Adams declared a state of emergency for New York City in October.
- An official from the Department of Homeland Security pointed to the “more than $140 million in federal funding to New York City, more than any other interior city.”
- In his remarks Wednesday, Adams said the city would not “abandon our brothers and sisters seeking the American dream.”
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