New York Headlines

• Heavyweight hero: Punchy boxer saves women trapped in smoke-filled SUV

  (by Thomas Tracy for The Daily News 2 hours from now)
  Add another knockout to Mitchell Rose’s record. The former heavyweight “boxing bum” from Brooklyn traded in his gym shorts for a superhero’s cape when he punched out an SUV’s back window, saving six people in the smoke-filled vehicle. “The old one-two combination kicked in,” Rose, 49, joked. “It’s...
  
  

• Christine Blasey Ford Reaches Deal to Testify at Kavanaugh Hearing

  (by SHERYL GAY STOLBERG for The New York Times 24 minutes ago)
  The woman who has accused Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, of sexually assaulting her decades ago is set to testify on Thursday.
  
  

• Prosecutors: Off-duty NYPD cop, released after he beat and choked girlfriend, arrested again for sending her threatening messages

  (by Esha Ray for The Daily News 54 minutes ago)
  An off-duty NYPD cop was arrested in Queens for sending threatening messages to his girlfriend — just hours after a judge released him without bail for allegedly choking and beating her up. Keith Roman, 29, was nabbed Saturday night and charged with violating an order of protection after he sent...
  
  
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• Armed With a Laptop and a Spreadsheet, He Takes On the City’s Biggest Landlords

  (by CHARLES V. BAGLI for The New York Times an hour ago)
  An opposing lawyer called Aaron Carr, the founder of the Housing Rights Initiative, “a very dangerous young man.”
  
  

• Four shot through fence at Long Island backyard party

  (by Stephanie Pagones for The New York Post an hour ago)
  Four people were shot when bullets ripped through a fence into the yard of an outdoor party in Long Island, police said Sunday. The victims were in the backyard of an apartment building on Dorlon Street in Hempstead around 11:15 p.m. Saturday, when they were hit by bullets fired from the yard of an adjacent...
  
  

• John Jay Professors Face Allegations of Drug Sales and Sexual Misconduct

  (by WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and DAVID W. CHEN for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  Four professors at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan have been placed on administrative leave after allegations were made of drug use and sex on campus.
  
  

• Teen passengers slap livery cab driver, steal his money: cops

  (by Esha Ray for The Daily News 3 hours ago)
  Three obnoxious teens slapped a Bronx livery cab driver after refusing to pay the fare, then took off with $100 of his cash, cops said Sunday. Police released surveillance video Saturday of the trio, believed to be in their mid-teens, in the back of the victim’s black Toyota RAV4. They hopped into...
  
  

• Grace Notes: From a 1993 Vow to 320,000 Reusable Water Bottles for Every New York High Schooler

  (by JAMES BARRON for The New York Times 3 hours ago)
  Sarah Kauss, the founder of S’well, and Mark Chambers, the director of the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, at S’well in Manhattan last week. They are working to slow the stream of discarded plastic bottles that clog waterways, threatening marine life, and that pile up in landfills.
  
  

• Dad of baby in day care stabbing attack shares recovery photo

  (by Georgett Roberts for The New York Post 3 hours ago)
  This exclusive photo — provided to The Post by the father — shows tragic Atiana Wang, one of three babies attacked by a berserk, cleaver- and butcher knife-wielding nanny on Friday at an illegal Queens care center for moms and their newborns. The nanny’s knife entered the 13-day-old baby’s torso near her navel, said Chen...
  
  

• Scandal-plagued school bus system sends taxpayer-funded cars for employees

  (by Susan Edelman for The New York Post 5 hours ago)
  While parents have deluged a city hotline with nearly 102,000 complaints about late or no-show school buses, 25 employees in the Department of Education’s Office of Pupil Transportation get taxpayer-funded city cars to commute from their homes. Some — including managers with cushy six-figure gigs — do little or no field work, according to co-workers...
  
  

• Your Weekend Briefing: Brett Kavanaugh, Hurricane Florence, Russia

  (by JOUMANA KHATIB and LANCE BOOTH for The New York Times 5 hours ago)
  
  
  

• Trump Galvanized a Movement of Women. Kavanaugh Is Testing It.

  (by ALEXANDER BURNS, ELIZABETH DIAS and SUSAN CHIRA for The New York Times 20 hours ago)
  President Trump with Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, and the judge’s wife and two daughters just before he was announced as a Supreme Court nominee in July.
  
  

• After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside

  (by Noam Cohen for The New Yorker 3 days, 19 hours ago)
  Noam Cohen on Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, and his decision to step aside following complaints of abusive behavior toward programmers, and particularly women, who work on the system.
  

• We Now Know More About the Apparent Poisoning of the Pussy Riot Member Pyotr Verzilov

  (by Masha Gessen for The New Yorker 3 days, 21 hours ago)
  Masha Gessen on the apparent poisoning of the Pussy Riot member Pyotr Verzilov, who had been investigating the deaths of three journalists who were killed while reporting on a mercenary force linked to an associate of Vladimir Putin.
  

• Don’t Underestimate the Danger of Trump’s Trade War with China

  (by John Cassidy for The New Yorker 4 days, 1 hour ago)
  John Cassidy writes about the escalating trade war between the Donald Trump Administration and China, and its possible impact on the markets.