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Documentary Chronicling Kalief Browder's Family Returns to New York Theaters Ahead of National PBS Premiere

By Michele Evans | NYWeeklyRecord.com | July 17, 2026 A powerful documentary examining the lasting impact of New York City’s jail system on the Browder family is returning to the big screen before making its national television debut. “For Venida, For Kalief” will screen for a one-week theatrical run at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem from July 20 through July 26, followed by its…

Somber Silence as Upper West Side Double-Fatality Defendant Returns to Court

By Michele Evans | NYWeeklyRecord.com | July 17, 2026 There were no emotional outbursts. No dramatic arguments. No words from the man accused of leaving two fathers dead and three other people injured on an Upper West Side street. Only silence. When 61-year-old Elvin Suarez appeared before Judge Gregory Carro in Manhattan Supreme Court this week, he entered wearing civilian clothes, a dark…

Intruder Breaches NBC’s ‘Today’ Show Set, Targets Black Anchor in Alleged Hate-Fueled Attack

By Michele Evans | NYWeeklyRecord.com | July 17, 2026 A man accused of hunting for NBC personalities inside Rockefeller Center allegedly reached the backstage area of the “Today” show, hurled a racial slur at anchor Craig Melvin and lunged toward him before police intervened. Now, a security guard has reportedly been fired as serious questions mount over how an unauthorized intruder managed to…

Federal Agents Search Former NYC Sheriff Anthony Miranda’s Home as Cash-Seizure Scrutiny Deepens

By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/17/2026 Category: Government Accountability / Public Corruption / Investigations NEW YORK CITY, NY – Federal agents executed a search warrant at former New York City Sheriff Anthony Miranda’s Queens home on July 16 and seized a personal electronic device in Puerto Rico, escalating scrutiny that has followed questions about cash taken during…

Forty-Nine Judges Seek Extra Terms as Secretive Review Draws New Accountability Demands

By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/17/2026 Category: Courts / Court Administration / Judicial Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – Forty-nine New York Supreme Court justices are asking to remain on the bench beyond the state’s mandatory retirement age of 70, placing a powerful and largely private court-review process under fresh public scrutiny. Certification can extend a Supreme Court…

Brooklyn Defender Services Staff Go on Strike, Supervisors Step In to Handle Cases

By Michele Evans | NYWeeklyRecord.com | July 16, 2026 Thousands of New Yorkers who rely on public defenders in Brooklyn and Queens may notice changes at the courthouse today after unionized employees at Brooklyn Defender Services officially walked off the job. As of 8 a.m. Thursday, members of the ALAA-UAW Local 2325 Brooklyn Defender Services Union Chapter began a strike after contract…

Maino Brings Music, Motivation and a Message of Hope to Rikers Island 🎤

By Michele Evans | NYWeeklyRecord.com | July 16, 2026 Sometimes, one conversation can change a life. That was the goal when rapper and radio personality Maino visited the George R. Vierno Center (GRVC) on Rikers Island, where he met with incarcerated individuals to talk about second chances, careers, and building a better future. During the July 10 visit, Maino and his team stopped by GRVC’s new…

Otisville Officer Charged as Prison Audit Reported No Substantiated Sexual Abuse

By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/16/2026 Category: Corrections / Civil Rights / Prison Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – A federal correctional officer has been charged with sexually abusing a woman in his custody at FCI Otisville, raising new questions about whether the prison’s safeguards could detect misconduct by the very employees entrusted with enforcing them. Federal…

Federal Rikers Plan Sets Deadlines After Years of Unconstitutional Violence

By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/16/2026 Category: Rikers Island / Corrections / Court Oversight NEW YORK CITY, NY – A court-appointed manager has put dates on New York City’s promises to fix Rikers Island, turning years of warnings about violence, broken security and failed accountability into a one-year action plan that can be measured in deadlines, not speeches. Nicholas Deml,…

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Public Defender Strike Threatens Court Representation Across Brooklyn and Queens

By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/15/2026 Category: Criminal Justice / Courts / Public Defense NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York City’s court system is hours away from a labor deadline that could disrupt legal representation for thousands of low-income New Yorkers. About 500 unionized Brooklyn Defender Services workers, including roughly 280 attorneys, may strike at 8 a.m. on July 16 if…

$24 Million Lawsuit Tests NYC’s Duty After Midtown Mass Shooting

By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/15/2026 Category: Public Safety / NYPD Accountability / Courts NEW YORK CITY, NY – A survivor of the deadly Midtown office-tower shooting is asking a court to decide whether New York City and the NYPD failed him before the first bullets reached the building. Craig Clementi, an NFL employee wounded during the July 28, 2025 attack at 345 Park Avenue,…

NYC Schools’ $12.9 Billion Contract Wall Now Faces Subpoena Threat

By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/14/2026 Category: Education / Government Accountability / Public Spending NEW YORK CITY, NY – A showdown over public records at the nation’s largest school system is moving toward a subpoena deadline. New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin has accused the Department of Education of months of “opacity, slow-walking, and delay” after the agency…

New York’s Highest Court Narrows Right to Record Inside Police Precincts

By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/14/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / NYPD Accountability / Civil Rights / Government Transparency NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York’s highest court has drawn a hard line around a place where police power is often at its most concentrated: the stationhouse lobby. In a unanimous ruling in Reyes v. City of New York, the New York Court of Appeals held that…

Trump Pays $5.6 Million to E. Jean Carroll After Supreme Court Lets Verdict Stand

Trump Pays $5.6 Million to E. Jean Carroll After Supreme Court Lets Verdict Stand By Michele Evans | NYWeeklyRecord.com | July 14, 2026 Years of legal fighting have finally turned into a check worth more than $5.6 million—and the impact could reach far beyond one case. President Donald Trump has officially paid writer E. Jean Carroll more than $5.6 million, satisfying the federal judgment…

Nearly 400 New Yorkers Sickened as Cyclospora Source Remains Unknown

By Michele Evans New York City, New York Date: 7/14/2026 Category: Public Health / Food Safety / Consumer Protection / Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – Nearly 400 New Yorkers have been diagnosed with cyclosporiasis since May, yet health investigators still have not identified the food or supplier responsible for the growing outbreak. New York City reported 273 confirmed cases from May 1 through…

New York Pauses Giant Data Centers as AI Power Demands Raise Utility and Water Concerns

By Michele Evans New York City, New York Date: 7/14/2026 Category: Technology / Environment / Consumer Costs / Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York has become the first state in the nation to stop new large-scale data center projects while regulators examine what the artificial intelligence boom could cost residents, the power grid, and the environment. Governor Kathy Hochul announced…

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