NYC & Company Helps Find New York’s Best Holiday Attractions

CBS New York 12/7 3:55A CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) New York City really dazzles during the holidays with so much to do and see across the five boroughs. Alyssa Schmid, from NYC & Company, the city s official tourism bureau, stopped by to discuss some of the best attractions...

Readers sound off on legal weed, free speech and the SOTA program

NYDailyNews.com (News) 12/6 6:00P Voice Of The People

Let's legalize weed the right way Great Barrington, Mass.: To Voicer Gregory Chupa: The question should not be whether or not to legalize cannabis in New York State, but how to. At Theory Wellness in Great Barrington, the closest recreational and...

Thompson Scores Late In 3rd, Canadiens Beat Rangers

CBS New York 12/6 4:45P CBS New York

NEW YORK (AP) The Montreal Canadiens are hoping their season is back on track. After suffering eight straight losses, Friday night s 2-1 win over the New York Rangers gave Montreal two victories in...

‘It’s Obviously Outrageous’: Reputed Gang Member Set Free On Bail Just Days After Allegedly Beating...

CBS New York 12/6 4:20P CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) –  An accused killer and reputed gang member is free on the streets of New York City, less than a week after allegedly beating a man so badly he would die in the hospital. The...

Take A Look Behind The Scenes Of The Dyker Heights Christmas Display

CBS New York 12/6 4:00P CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The Dyker Heights holiday lights are up and on. It s one of the biggest attractions in New York City at this time of year, but how does this spectacle all come together? CBS2 s Ali Bauman got a behind-the-scenes look. MORE:...

Ron Leibman, Tony Award-winning actor who played Roy Cohn in ‘Angels in America’ and Jennifer...

NYDailyNews.com (News) 12/6 1:34P Storm Gifford

Ron Leibman, the versatile actor best known for his Tony Award-winning performance as Roy Cohn in “Angels in America” and recurring role as Jennifer Aniston’s gruff dad Dr. Leonard Green on “Friends," has died at the age of 82. The New York...

Amazon Planning To Build New Office At Hudson Yards Without Controversial Tax Breaks

CBS New York 12/6 1:32P CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Amazon is coming to New York City after all. CBS2 has learned that the company is planning to open up an office space in the new Hudson Yards neighborhood on the west side of...

New York can end its insane scaffolding plague

NYPost.com (Opinion) 12/6 1:06P Post Editorial Board

Scaffolding covers roughly 200 miles of New York City streetfront, with nearly 4,000 sites in Manhattan alone — a blight that, as Miranda Devine wrote in Monday’s Post, plagues no other major city. Though nominally about safety, these “sidewalk...

Talking Points: What’s Next For Criminal Justice Reform In New York?

CBS New York 12/6 12:06P CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) –  Starting Jan. 1, New York State will eliminate cash bail and pretrial detention for most suspects accused of low-level offenses. In New York City, defendants will also receive...

Snapshot NY: Father & Son Raising Thousands For Charity With Photographs Of Ghana

CBS New York 12/6 10:30A CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) New York is considered the art capitol of America, but to show in New York, you don t need to be world famous. One family made it by simply showing the world. The Sloyers are the...

New Jersey, NYC government accounts get into bizarre Twitter feud

NYPost.com (Metro) 12/6 10:29A Nolan Hicks

New Jersey s official Twitter account mixed it up with New York City government s sassiest Twitter account Friday after the Garden State s feed tweeted your mom to a random social media user. The dust up began when the Jersey account...

Sources: Razor Blade In NYPD Officer’s Sandwich Appears To Be Accidental

CBS New York 12/6 8:52A CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) An on-duty NYPD officer bit into a sandwich he bought in Queens Thursday and got a mouthful of razor blade. The officer pulled the full-sized razor out of his mouth. He was taken to a hospital where he was treated and...

Bed-Stuy church nominated for national historic status

Brooklyn Daily Eagle 12/6 8:00A Lore Croghan

A late 19th-century Bedford-Stuyvesant church has been honored with a nomination to the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Cornerstone Baptist Church was the only Brooklyn property...

Murders up 8.7 percent in New York City in 2019

Brooklyn Daily Eagle 12/6 6:00A Noah Goldberg

Murders citywide are up 8.7 percent this year, slightly disrupting the city s downward trend in homicides over the past few decades, police announced Thursday. The announcement came at the NYPD s final crime briefing of the year, the first...

Harvey Weinstein Accused Of Mishandling Ankle Monitor

CBS New York 12/6 5:49A CBS New York

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein violated his bail conditions by mishandling his electronic ankle monitor, which left his whereabouts unrecorded for hours at a time, a New York prosecutor argued...