New York Headlines

• Mayor Adams defiantly tells NYC colleges to hold graduation ceremonies, don’t cave to provocateurs

  (by Carl Campanile for The New York Post 3 minutes ago)
  "We'll do our job, and if the institutions decide to graduate their students and celebrate a beautiful experience with their families, we will make sure it's done in a peaceful manner," Mayor Adams said.
  
  

• Interstate 95 Reopens After Damaged Bridge Is Demolished

  (by Chelsia Rose Marcius for The New York Times 19 minutes ago)
  A section of the highway, a crucial link between Connecticut and New York City, had closed on Thursday when fuel from a burning tanker ignited an overpass.
  
  

• Hamas Claims Responsibility for a Rocket Attack Near Kerem Shalom

  (by Liam Stack for The New York Times 23 minutes ago)
  The Israeli military said that about 10 rockets were fired toward Kerem Shalom, a conduit for aid into Gaza. Several people were injured, Israel’s public broadcaster said.
  
  
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• More than 380,000 additional NYC students had personal info hacked, bringing total to over 1M

  (by Carl Campanile for The New York Post 25 minutes ago)
  The New York City Department of Education last week began sending letters notifying the hundreds of thousands of additional current and former students that they were victims of the cyber attack involving one of the DOE's former software vendors, according to a letter sent to one graduate and reviewed by The Post.
  
  

• New York City apartment evictions in 2023 not as bad as media say it is

  (by Steve Cuozzo for The New York Post an hour ago)
  Bleeding-heart real estate myths die hard. Take propaganda that residential evictions are surging in the Big Apple. The false argument was endlessly cited to support so-called “good-cause eviction” (which would have made it near impossible to boot deadbeat tenants) and, later, to whine that the watered-down version passed by the state Legislature didn’t go nearly far...
  
  

• After a U.N. official says there is famine in northern Gaza, Israel pushes back.

  (by Liam Stack for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  
  
  

• For Markus Johnson, Prison and Mental Illness Equaled a Death Sentence

  (by Glenn Thrush and Carlos Javier Ortiz for The New York Times 8 hours ago)
  The downward spiral of one inmate, Markus Johnson, shows the larger failures of the nation’s prisons to care for the mentally ill.
  

• Immigrants Find Fun and Community at Queens Soccer Fields

  (by Raúl Vilchis for The New York Times 10 hours ago)
  For generations of immigrants, Sunday soccer at Flushing Meadows Corona Park is more than a game.
  
  

• Eddie Gibbs Went From Prison to Politics. Now He Helps Others Get a Second Act.

  (by Jeffery C. Mays for The New York Times 1 day, 10 hours ago)
  Assemblyman Eddie Gibbs of East Harlem has used his experience to help people reinvent themselves, including a high-flying 1990s rapper who went to prison for murder.