Police Commissioner Ray Kelly doesn’t often comment when officers are accused of a crime. Tuesday, he made an exception, lambasting two on-duty officers charged in the rape of a drunken, semiconscious woman in her East Village apartment.
Gov. David A. Paterson has signed legislation allowing Nassau and Suffolk counties to install cameras to catch red-light violators at dangerous intersections in each county, officials said Tuesday.
One hundred days into President Barack Obama’s four-year term, local Democrats are uniformly praising him while Republicans, mindful of the president’s high approval ratings, are criticizing him cautiously.
As the number of confirmed cases of swine flu nationwide jumped to 64, New York City began collecting medical samples at a Queens school for autistic children after reports of flulike symptoms and “more than usual absenteeism,” a spokesman for the mayor’s office said Tuesday.