Stephanie Keith, an award-winning independent news photographer who frequently shoots for Reuters, Getty, and the New York Times, was arrested outside the Broadway-Lafayette St. subway station on Monday as she photographed protest arrests. She was released later that night and charged with disorderly conduct, police said.
If we're learning anything from the tragic death of Jordan Neely on the floor of a Manhattan F train, it's that the city seems helpless even when it knows exactly which mentally ill homeless most need help.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a swing at Mayor Eric Adams Tuesday, saying that Jordan Neely the homeless man who was choked to death on the subway last week was "killed by the demonizing of the poor by many of our leaders."
Adams did not explicitly call for Daniel Penny, the former Marine who choked Neely, to be charged with a crime, after days of demands from Neely’s family that prosecutors act.