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Lawmakers have until Friday to vote on the "Keep Police Radio Public Act" to prevent the NYPD from shutting the press out of police radio access.

Ellis Kaplan, a quirky, but beloved, veteran New York Post shutterbug who made Queens courts his turf unrivaled by no one during a spectacular four-decade career, has passed away.

Ellis Kaplan, a quirky, but beloved, veteran New York Post shutterbug who made Queens courts his turf unrivaled by no one during a spectacular four-decade career, has passed away.

Bronx Assembly Member Karines Reyes, chair of the influential Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force, introduced on April 3 an Assembly version (A.09728) of the

The NYPD began encrypting police radio transmissions in Staten Island on Thursday, thereby blocking the public and media from listening to radio transmissions.

AOC on Thursday dismissed a reporter's question about the controversial shutdown of James Madison High School in Brooklyn to temporarily house migrants because "it's not in my district."

NYPD brass remained tight-lipped Monday about their encryption plan for all police radios, and the future of journalists who would be denied access to

State lawmakers are looking to thwart the NYPD's plans to encrypt all their police radios and keep the press and public in tune with police communications.

Months after 10 northern Brooklyn police precincts cut off their radios from the press and public, the City Council will eye the NYPD's broader plans to

Police radios in four more Brooklyn precincts went dark on the morning of Sept. 11, as the NYPD seemingly took another step in its controversial plan to