Author: newyork-news

Two males disguised as development staff walked right into a midtown Manhattan jewellery retailer armed with hammers and tried to drag off a daring smash-and-grab heist, in accordance with regulation enforcement sources. The incident was captured on surveillance video from the shop on the nook of East 53rd Avenue and Madison Avenue round 2 p.m. Wednesday, regulation enforcement sources stated. One man entered the store and held the door open for the opposite man, sporting a yellow development vest and a blue surgical masks. The second man walked as much as a show case, took out a hammer and commenced…

Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters stormed a library at Columbia College and refused to go away for hours, college officers mentioned, staying put till the NYPD was known as to take away the demonstrators. The protest at Butler Library started round 4 p.m. and was remoted to a studying room within the library, in keeping with the college. About 60-100 protesters entered the constructing at the moment, lots of whom had been carrying facemasks. Protesters hung Palestinian flags and different banners on bookshelves in an ornate studying room. Some protesters additionally appeared to have scrawled “Columbia will burn” throughout framed photos. Columbia’s Public Security…