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Election Day 2024 voting at Riverside Church in Harlem on Nov. 5, 2024. Picture by Dean Moses A legislation permitting a whole bunch of 1000’s of noncitizens residing in New York Metropolis to vote in municipal elections was struck down on Thursday by the state’s highest court docket. The 6-to-1 resolution by the New York State Court docket of Appeals discovered that the legislation ought to be voided as a result of it violates the state Structure. Within the court docket’s majority opinion, Chief Choose Rowan Wilson wrote that the state structure clearly states that solely US residents can vote…
A person pretending to be in mourning violently robbed a funeral house director at machete-point in Harlem, authorities say. Based on investigators, the suspect confirmed up at Daniels Wilhelmina Funeral house on West 131st Avenue in the course of the afternoon one February day. He had made an appointment to fulfill with the director, purportedly to debate funeral preparations, police stated. As soon as he acquired into the 66-year-old funeral director’s workplace, cops say the suspect demanded cash, punched the sufferer within the head a couple of occasions and brandished a machete earlier than stealing his cellphone and pockets. The…