New York Headlines

• 25,000 rally to demand de Blasio double number of Charter seats

  (by Selim Algar for The New York Post a minute ago)
  Cheering and chanting for choice, an unprecedented crowd of roughly 25,000 parents, children, and teachers swarmed Prospect Park Wednesday to demand the doubling of city charter-school seats by 2020. Pouring into Brooklyn by coach, subway and city bus from across the city, the swarm of boosters implored Mayor de Blasio to raise the total charter...
  
  

• NYC wants to make is safer for drug addicts to shoot up

  (by Rich Calder for The New York Post 11 minutes ago)
  Heroin addicts could be getting a clean, medically supervised facility to shoot up — all at the city’s expense. The City Council has allocated $100,000 to the Health Department for a nine-month study of whether it makes sense to open “supervised injection facilities” where intravenous drug users could get high under medical supervision. Officials said...
  
  

• Man who killed ex-girlfriend’s dog to serve just 60 days in jail

  (by Emily Saul for The New York Post 24 minutes ago)
  The monster who killed his ex-girlfriend’s Chihuahua in a fit of rage got a sweetheart deal Wednesday of just 60 days in jail for the gruesome pet killing. Dog murderer Carlos Hernandez pleaded guilty last month to killing 3-year-old Honey, whom he grabbed from the arms of his ex, Karem Belalcazar, during an argument in...
  
  
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• Average ACS worker investigates more cases now than in 2012

  (by Greg B. Smith for The Daily News 41 minutes ago)
  As the city tries to explain the events that led to Zymere Perkins' death, records show child protective workers’ caseloads have grown.
  
  

• Mayor Holds Town Hall Meeting in Queens

  (by NY1 News for NY1 News an hour ago)
  Mayor Bill de Blasio held a town hall meeting in Queens Wednesday.
  

• Police Investigate Fatal Shooting in Bronx Playground

  (by NY1 News for NY1 News an hour ago)
  Police are investigating after a man was shot to death in a Bronx playground.
  

• Man Arrested in Connection with Bronx House Explosion That Killed Firefighter

  (by NY1 News for NY1 News an hour ago)
  Police have arrested a man in connection with the house explosion in the Bronx that killed a firefighter Tuesday.
  

• NYC day care $145M deal hikes pay for staffers

  (by Ben Chapman for The Daily News an hour ago)
  City day care providers and their staffers have reached a $145 million deal to provide raises to roughly 2,700 workers.
  
  

• NYC juvenile detention aide faces 16 years for raping teen girl

  (by Leonard Greene for The Daily News 2 hours ago)
  An aide at a Brooklyn juvenile detention center was convicted on charges of raping and sexually abusing a teenage girl in his care.
  
  

• Congress Votes to Override Obama Veto on 9/11 Victims Bill

  (by JENNIFER STEINHAUER, MARK MAZZETTI and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  President Obama during a speech last week. He has conceded that Congress did not support his veto of the bill.
  
  

• Fire Dept. Chief Killed in Bronx Blast Is Recalled as Family Man and ‘Rising Star’

  (by RICK ROJAS for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  New York City firefighters placed bunting in front of Battalion 19 in the Bronx on Wednesday for Chief Michael J. Fahy, who died in an explosion this week.
  
  

• Oral Nicholas Hillary Acquitted in Potsdam Boy’s Killing

  (by JESSE McKINLEY for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  Oral Nicholas Hillary embraced his lawyer Norman Siegel outside court on Wednesday after he was found not guilty of the 2011 murder of Garrett Phillips.
  
  

• U.S. to Bar Arbitration Clauses in Nursing Home Contracts

  (by JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and MICHAEL CORKERY for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  A case involving Elizabeth Barrow, a 100-year-old woman who was found murdered in a nursing home in 2009, was initially blocked from court.
  
  

• Congress Approves Spending Bill, Averting Government Shutdown

  (by EMMARIE HUETTEMAN for The New York Times 5 hours ago)
  Speaker Paul D. Ryan, center, with the majority whip, Representative Steve Scalise, in Washington on Tuesday.
  
  

• ‘Mr. Wolf’ Sought to Fix Bridge Scandal, Ex-Christie Ally Testifies

  (by KATE ZERNIKE for The New York Times 5 hours ago)
  Bill Baroni, who was Gov. Chris Christie’s top staff appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
  
  

• A New Cuba

  (by Jon Lee Anderson for The New Yorker 3 days ago)
  One afternoon last spring, President Obama sat on a stage at La Cervecería, a high-ceilinged beer hall on Havana Harbor, where he had been invited to preside over a gathering billed as “an entrepreneurship and opportunity event.” Just a few hundred feet down the harbor wall was the spot where, in 1960, a French cargo ship full of munitions exploded, ...