Each of New York City’s 472 subway stations are now equipped with security cameras.

Transit leaders over the last year have ramped up efforts to put more eyes in the sky to beef up security. At the start of the year, fewer than 60% of subway stations had cameras, which hampered the NYPD’s efforts to investigate transit crimes.

But the work sped up this year — and Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said a push by former interim NYC Transit president Sarah Feinberg to install “a new class of cameras that could be deployed more quickly and at much lower cost than traditional cameras” helped quicken the rollout.

“We have delivered on Sarah’s commitment to accelerate the camera roll-out as we look to restore confidence in the system,” said interim NYC Transit president Craig Cipriano, who succeeded Feinberg in July after she resigned from her post.

Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Jim Breuer canceled two standup shows at theaters that are requiring patrons to show proof of vaccination.

The driver accused of killing a baby girl in Brooklyn should have had his car impounded months ago.
But the city has failed to implement legislation signed into law by the mayor to crack down on the most reckless drivers.

State Dept’s top chief defends Afghanistan withdrawal under fierce grilling by GOP lawmakers

Nearly two weeks after the hastened withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the chaos and criticism that followed, Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday blamed former President Donald Trump for dropping the ball.

Appearing via video link, Blinken told a House committee the U.S. had no good choices once it decided to pull all troops out of Afghanistan.

“We inherited a deadline,” Blinken said. “We did not inherit the plan.”

Grilled by Republicans on why the withdrawal wasn’t delayed, Blinken said it wouldn’t have helped.

“There’s no evidence that staying longer would have made the Afghan security forces or the Afghan government any more resilient or self-sustaining,” Blinken told lawmakers. “If 20 years and hundreds of billions of dollars in support, equipment, and training did not suffice, why would another year, or five, or 10, make a difference?”

Blinken said Trump effectively tied President Biden’s hands by signing a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban without creating a viable plan for executing the withdrawal.

The nation’s top diplomat will remain on the hot seat over Afghanistan later this week when he appears before a similar Senate panel.

Along with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Blinken has faced bruising attacks over the lightning-fast collapse of the previous Afghan government and the chaotic first hours of the effort to get Americans and allies out of the country.

The siblings were sitting in front of their building in the Monroe Houses on Taylor Ave. when Johnson walked up and shot them both in the head, according to police.

The Tunstalls were accused of being members of the Monroe Houses Crew, a violent gang that sold crack cocaine in the Soundview public housing complex and targeted rivals with shootings and stabbings, authorities say.

They were indicted in Manhattan Federal Court in January 2020 alongside nine other alleged members of the gang, and were both released on bond with ankle monitoring devices.

Johnson, who served four years in prison after being convicted of an attempted-murder charge in the Bronx in 2016, was released from prison last year and is on parole until 2025, public records show.

He remains locked up without bail after his arrest a few hours after the double shooting.

Second brother dies in gang-related Bronx shooting

Malik Tunstall, 22, died two days after he and his brother, Price Tunstall, 24, were gunned down as they sat on a bench outside their Bronx housing development.
Police have charged Kai Johnson, 26, a rival gang member who was out on parole for attempted murder, with the Aug. 31 shooting.

Some of the wildest outfits worn at previous Met Galas

Katy Perry

In 2019, the last Met Gala before the pandemic, Katy Perry lived up to her famous song “Firework” when she walked up the Metropolitan Museum of Art steps decked out in a chandelier outfit.

Adams vows to return donation from NYPD union boss who publicly denigrated Rep. Torres

Eric Adams vowed to return a campaign donation from an NYPD union head who’s facing disciplinary proceedings for calling a N.Y. congressman a “whore,” among other eyebrow-raising conduct.