New York
‘I Ran Home to Grab a Measuring Tape and Then Returned’
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Nook Cupboard
Expensive Diary:
I dwell in Astoria. At some point, whereas I used to be out strolling and speaking on the telephone with my mother, I noticed a porter put a fantastic nook cupboard subsequent to a pile of trash exterior the church a couple of doorways down from my constructing.
It was a top quality piece that I knew would look nice in my house, so I ran house to seize a measuring tape after which returned to see whether or not it was the precise measurement.
As I used to be measuring, I heard a mild voice from behind me.
“Will it match?”
I circled to see a younger man standing there.
I mentioned goodbye to my mother and turned again to the younger man.
“I feel so,” I mentioned.
“I’ll carry it for you, if you happen to’d like,” he mentioned.
How might I refuse?
With out saying a phrase, he lifted the cupboard up simply and hoisted it over his shoulder. We set off down the road after which up the steps once we bought to my constructing.
As soon as we had gotten inside and the cupboard was in place, I wasn’t positive easy methods to thank him.
He observed my piano.
“Will you play me a tune?”
— Katie Coleman
A True Gentleman
Expensive Diary:
I hopped right into a cab that was stopped at a pink mild on Park Avenue. The taxi was immaculate, and the driving force was, as my mother and father would say, a real gentleman.
All of the sudden, midway to the place I used to be going, he requested: As we’re at a pink mild, could I feed the birds?
Sure, I nodded.
He hopped out of the cab clutching a big bag of seed and commenced to unfold it amongst a large group of pigeons that have been loitering on the mall.
Do you do that typically? I requested when he returned.
It’s exhausting to discover a meal in winter, particularly for smaller birds, he mentioned.
Then he burrowed into one other bag to throw a big bread crumb or two to an expectant sparrow.
— Marcia D.B. Levy
Fishing
Expensive Diary:
My husband returned from lunch fairly forlorn. Certainly one of his earbuds had popped out on the way in which house, bounced off a pile of leaves and fallen by means of a sewer grate.
Wanting down, he might see it resting on some leaves beneath. Considering he may be capable of fish it out, he wrapped an extended wire to a penlight with a magnetic deal with. He was capable of carry it as excessive because the sewer grate, which was too slim to get it by means of.
He needed to get to a gathering, so he was compelled to surrender. I made a decision to provide it a attempt earlier than the solar set.
Armed with a small however highly effective magnet tied to an extended wire, I regarded by means of the grate, spied the earbud and tried my luck. I, too, managed to get it on the magnet, however I couldn’t get it by means of the grate both, and it fell again down.
“Fishing for one thing?” I heard a person say.
I circled to search out two development staff standing there. I instructed them what I used to be fishing for. Certainly one of them eliminated the grate, requested for the magnet and pulled the earbud up effortlessly. Then he put the grate again on, they usually walked away.
— Miriam Ok. Tierney
On a Brooklyn Roof
Expensive Diary:
i used to be on a roof in Brooklyn wanting down
and had a digicam packed, pulled it out
and loaded my final black & white roll of movie.
patiently holding nonetheless.
noticed an empty chook’s nest on a window sill.
guess all of them discovered to fly, want ’em properly.
noticed a well-dressed lady put mail in her purse
and a tricycle with a lacking wheel within the grime.
for what it’s price:
{a photograph}’s the one path to time journey in reverse.
throughout the road,
what regarded like a fort at first
was actually simply the again of the church.
if I bought to the rooftop earlier,
would’ve had extra time earlier than the moon turning up.
so it wasn’t that lengthy until i put the lens cap again on
and I walked downstairs — quick ahead:
again on the block onto the practice platform
and the doorways have been open,
what extra might I ask for?
— Leo Coltrane
Sensible Man
Expensive Diary:
I used to be crossing Madison Avenue on a highly regarded August day. Visitors was largely frozen as a Cadillac edged previous a truck and stopped for the sunshine.
The driving force of the truck bought out and began yelling on the driver of the Cadillac, whose home windows have been rolled up.
“What are you silly or one thing?” he yelled.
The Cadillac’s window rolled down slowly.
“Silly?” the person behind it mentioned. “Who’s driving the truck and who’s driving the Cadillac?”
— Alan H. Zwiebel
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New York
Transcript of Trump Manhattan Trial, May 30, 2024
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Jury Deliberation Re-charge
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF NEW YORK CRIMINAL TERM
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PART: 59
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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,
-against-
DONALD J. TRUMP,
DEFENDANT.
BEFORE:
Indict. No.
71543-2023
CHARGE
4909
FALSIFYING BUSINESS
RECORDS 1ST DEGREE
JURY TRIAL
100 Centre Street
New York, New York 10013
May 30, 2024
HONORABLE JUAN M. MERCHAN
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT
APPEARANCES:
FOR THE PEOPLE:
ALVIN BRAGG, JR., ESQ.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY, NEW YORK COUNTY
One Hogan Place
New York, New York 10013
BY:
JOSHUA STEINGLASS, ESQ.
MATTHEW COLANGELO,
ESQ.
SUSAN HOFFINGER, ESQ.
CHRISTOPHER CONROY, ESQ.
BECKY MANGOLD, ESQ.
KATHERINE ELLIS, ESQ.
Assistant District Attorneys
BLANCHE LAW
BY:
TODD BLANCHE, ESQ.
EMIL BOVE, ESQ.
KENDRA WHARTON, ESQ.
NECHELES LAW, LLP
BY: SUSAN NECHELES, ESQ.
GEDALIA STERN, ESQ.
Attorneys for the Defendant
SUSAN PEARCE-BATES, RPR, CSR, RSA
Principal Court Reporter
LAURIE EISENBERG, RPR, CSR
LISA KRAMSKY
THERESA MAGNICCARI
Senior Court Reporters
Susan Pearce-Bates, RPR, CCR, RSA
Principal Court Reporter
New York
Transcript of Trump Manhattan Trial, May 29, 2024
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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF NEW YORK CRIMINAL TERM
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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,
PART: 59
Indict. No.
71543-2023
CHARGE
-against-
DONALD J. TRUMP,
DEFENDANT.
BEFORE:
4815
FALSIFYING BUSINESS
RECORDS 1ST DEGREE
JURY TRIAL
X
100 Centre Street
New York, New York 10013
May 29, 2024
HONORABLE JUAN M. MERCHAN
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT
APPEARANCES:
FOR THE
PEOPLE:
ALVIN BRAGG, JR.,
ESQ.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY, NEW YORK COUNTY
One Hogan Place
New York, New York 10013
BY:
JOSHUA STEINGLASS, ESQ.
MATTHEW COLANGELO,
ESQ.
SUSAN HOFFINGER, ESQ.
CHRISTOPHER CONROY, ESQ.
BECKY MANGOLD, ESQ.
KATHERINE ELLIS, ESQ.
Assistant District Attorneys
BLANCHE LAW
BY:
TODD BLANCHE, ESQ.
EMIL BOVE, ESQ.
KENDRA WHARTON, ESQ.
NECHELES LAW, LLP
BY: SUSAN NECHELES, ESQ.
Attorneys for the Defendant
SUSAN PEARCE-BATES, RPR, CSR, RSA
Principal Court Reporter
LAURIE EISENBERG, RPR, CSR
LISA KRAMSKY
THERESA MAGNICCARI
Senior Court Reporters
Susan Pearce-Bates,
RPR, CCR, RSA
Principal Court Reporter
New York
Critics Fault ‘Aggressive’ N.Y.P.D. Response to Pro-Palestinian Rally
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Violent confrontations at a pro-Palestinian rally in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on Saturday reflected what some local officials and protest organizers called an unexpectedly aggressive Police Department response, with officers flooding the neighborhood and using force against protesters.
At the rally, which drew hundreds of demonstrators, at least two officers wearing the white shirts of commanders were filmed punching three protesters who were prone in the middle of a crosswalk. One officer had pinned a man to the ground and repeatedly punched him in the ribs, a 50-second video clip shows. Another officer punched the left side of a man’s face as he held his head to the asphalt.
The police arrested around 40 people who were “unlawfully blocking roadways,” Kaz Daughtry, the department’s deputy commissioner of operations, said on social media on Sunday.
Mr. Daughtry shared drone footage of one person who climbed on a city bus, “putting himself and others in danger.” The Police Department, he wrote, “proudly protects everyone’s right to protest, but lawlessness will never be tolerated.”
Neither Mr. Daughtry nor the police commented on the use of force by officers. A spokeswoman for Mayor Eric Adams did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the police response. The Police Department’s patrol guide states that officers must use “only the reasonable force necessary to gain control or custody of a subject.”
Bay Ridge has a significant Arab American population and hosts demonstrations in mid-May every year to commemorate what Palestinians call the Nakba, or “catastrophe” — when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes during the war that led to Israel’s founding in 1948.
Andrew Gounardes, a state senator and a Democrat who represents the area, said local politicians had been in touch with the commanding officer of the 68th police precinct before the preplanned protest and said there had been no indication that there would be such a heavy police response. He called the videos he saw of the events “deeply concerning.”
“It certainly seems like the police came ready for a much more aggressive and a much more confrontational demonstration than perhaps they had gotten,” he added.
Justin Brannan, a Democrat who is the city councilman for the area, said the protest was smaller than last year’s but that officers had come from all over the city to police it. He said their approach appeared to be directed by 1 Police Plaza, the department headquarters in Manhattan.
“These were not our local cops. Clearly, there was a zero-tolerance edict sent down from 1PP, which escalated everything and made it worse,” Mr. Brannan said.
“I’m still waiting on information and details about the arrests that were made,” he added, “but from my vantage point, the response appeared pre-emptive, retaliatory and cumulatively aggressive.”
The Republican state assemblyman whose district includes parts of Bay Ridge, Alec Brook-Krasny, had a different perspective. He said an investigation would determine whether the officers’ actions were warranted, but he said some protesters were “breaking the law” by refusing to clear the street.
“I think that those bad apples are really hurting the ability of the other people to express their opinions,” Mr. Brook-Krasny said.
Some local residents supported the police and said they were tired of the protests’ disruptive impact. “Enough is enough,” said Peter Cheris, 52, a 40-year resident of Bay Ridge, who said he had viewed the videos of the protest. “If you’re going to break the law, you deserve it,” he said.
Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, singled out the presence of the Police Department’s Strategic Response Group, a unit that is sometimes deployed to protests and has been the subject of several lawsuits brought by the civil liberties union and other groups.
The police unit’s handling of the demonstration “was a violation of New Yorkers’ right to speak out and risks chilling political expression,” Ms. Lieberman said in a statement. “N.Y.C.L.U. protest monitors witnessed violent arrests, protester injuries, and even arrests of credentialed members of the press.”
She added: “The continual pattern of N.Y.P.D. aggression against pro-Palestine demonstrators raises important questions about the city’s disparate treatment of speakers based on their message.”
Abdullah Akl, an organizer with Within Our Lifetime, the pro-Palestinian group that organized the protests, said the response took organizers aback, particularly for a demonstration that occurs every year in Bay Ridge and is known to be frequented by families with children.
“It was really an unusual and unprecedented response,” Mr. Akl said.
He said he witnessed two men being pushed to the ground. One of them can be seen in a video with blood streaming down the side of his face. Nerdeen Kiswani, chair of Within Our Lifetime, said three protesters — including the two who can be seen being punched — were treated for their injuries at hospitals.
The Police Department has arrested hundreds of demonstrators since street protests began shortly after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza. The protests have been largely peaceful, with few injuries or violent clashes.
In a turning point, on April 30 officers cleared Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, which had been occupied by protesters for 17 hours. Many officers showed restraint during the arrests, though a handful were filmed pushing and dragging students as they removed them from the building.
On Sunday, Ms. Lieberman said police response to the protests in Bay Ridge underscored the importance of implementing the terms of a $512,000 settlement the civil liberties union and the Legal Aid Society reached with the city this month. The settlement set new terms for how the Police Department manages protests, creating a tiered system that dictates how many officers can be sent to demonstrations and limits the use of the Strategic Response Group. It will take years to put into practice.
The settlement is one of several that stemmed from the George Floyd racial justice protests in 2020. Last year, the city agreed to pay $13.7 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed unlawful police tactics had violated the rights of demonstrators in Manhattan and Brooklyn. In March, the city agreed to pay $21,500 to each of roughly 300 people who attended another Black Lives Matter protest in 2020 in the Bronx. Those people were penned in by the police, then charged at or beaten with batons, according to a legal settlement.
Andy Newman and Camille Baker contributed reporting.
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