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NEW YORK - New York City Chairman Eric Adams, New York City Division of Training (DOE) Chancellor David C. Banks, and New York City Police Office (NYPD) Chief Edward Caban declared another association between the DOE and the Police Institute pointed toward working with youngsters with developmental disabilities. Specialists from the DOE's custom curriculum Office drove a day-long preparation face to face at the Police Foundation on ways of behaving and reactions of understudies with developmental disabilities like autism and to teach NYPD initiates on mindful and caring ways of speaking with every single youngster. "The security of our understudies will constantly be a first concern for this organization, which is the reason we keep on putting resources into both upstream and downstream moves toward guard our most youthful New Yorkers," said City hall leader Adams. "Coordinated efforts like this assistance to expand on the useful advances we have taken so far and pu...

By Madhu Sharma, MD, Pediatric Cardiologist, Youngsters' Clinic at Montefiore Manhattan Voice August 17, 2023 NEW YORK - Coronary illness was once viewed as a medical problem that main impacted grown-ups. Sadly today it is progressively influencing kids and youthful grown-ups as well. Atherosclerotic coronary illness (a main source of sickness and demise all over the planet) is the improvement of a tacky substance called plaque, which is comprised of cholesterol in the veins - called courses. The plaque limits the supply routes over the long run, and this causes diminished blood stream to the heart, cerebrum, and other indispensable organs. This, thusly builds the gamble of respiratory failures, strokes and other heart illnesses sometime down the road.

Police are searching for this man in connection with a string of muggings on the Upper East Side and the Bronx. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice August 17, 2023  NEW YORK - Cops are searching for a moped-riding mugger who attacked three people throughout the Upper East Side of Manhattan and at least one person in the Bronx.  The NYPD released surveillance video of a man wanted in four separate attacks that occurred on the same day on the Upper East Side- as well as one case in the Bronx days later. Cops said the suspect’s MO is he rides up behind his victim on the moped riding on the sidewalk. He punches the victim in the head and tries to steal their headphones off their head.  The first case was around 5:30 pm on July 3. The suspect rode up behind a 20-year-old man in front of 440 East 79th Street. The moped rider reached over and punched the victim in the head and tried to yank the headphones off the man’s head. He failed to do so.   ...

Health officials are urging New Yorkers to find ways to beat the heat. -Photo by VNSNY By Constance Washington, RN and Care Coordinator, VNS Health Plans  Bronx Voice  August 15, 2023  NEW YORK - The record high heat this summer, alongside the number of days this season with dangerous air quality conditions , has many of us double-checking our calendars in the hopes that fall weather will soon be here.  Unfortunately, it has become increasingly common for elevated temperatures to go hand in hand with elevated levels of air pollution.  While we are all looking forward to temperatures going down, it has never been more important to take steps to lessen chances of overheating and limit exposure to poor air quality. Smog, ozone, and even smoke from distant forest fires can make breathing difficult and can increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.  Having worked as a home health care nurse, and now as a Care Coordinator with the nonprofit VN...

65 Already Arrested on Various Charges during Riot  Police are searching for 16 people in connection with the vandalism of a car during the Union Square Riot. -Photo by NYPD By David Greene  Manhattan Voice  August 15, 2023  NEW YORK - More fallout from the Union Square Riot in which a video game console giveaway got out of hand and crowds damaged property. Cops are searching for 16 people for wrecking a BMW parked near Union Square.  Police released new surveillance video from the riot which highlights the faces of the suspects, cops say, wrecked a car parked near the scene.

Police are searching for a group of people who maced a woman and stole her purse. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice August 11, 2023 NEW YORK - Police are looking for a group of people who maced a woman in the face to steal her purse in the Flatiron District. At around 10 pm on July 5, a 34-year-old woman was in the Flatiron District when a group of four people walked up behind her. In the vicinity of 6th Avenue and West 23rd Street, one of the members of the group ran up to the woman and sprayed her in the face with an unknown substance. Another member of the group grabbed onto the victim’s purse and violently stripped it from her. The group of purse snatchers then ran off. Cops said the crew were spotted running into the “R” and “W” train station at Broadway and West 23rd Street. Cops said the victim’s arm was bruised in the attack but did not require medical attention. Police released surveillance video from inside the subway station when the members ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams hosts “Talk with Eric: A Community Conversation. P.S. 2, 122 Henry Street, New York, NY. August 10, 2023. -Photo Credit by Benny Polatseck/Mayoral Photography Office By Mayor Eric Adams Community Op-Ed Manhattan Voice August 11, 2023   NEW YORK - As mayor, it is my sacred duty to keep New Yorkers safe. I campaigned on making New York City a safer place to live, work, and raise a family, and now, after a little over a year and a half in office, we continue to see the results. Shootings are down an incredible 27% through the first 7-months of this year, and, so far this year, we have removed almost 4,000 illegal guns from our streets. Murder, robberies, and burglaries are all down, it is safer to ride on the subway, and hate crimes have declined.   This is the result of intervention–targeted, precision policing, but also a prevention-based approach to tackle the root causes of crime. The loss of even a single life due to violence i...