Amanda Alexandre

Sanitation worker discovers body in garbage bag on Canarsie street 🎤 Amanda Alexandre reports 📸 Amanda Alexandre, Citizen App

🚨 BREAKING: Dead man found wrapped in bag on Brooklyn street spr.ly/6013BHUnuV 📸 @amandatalex

⛸️ ‘Never too early to ice skate’: Bryant Park waves off fall as the Winter Village returns 🎤 @AmandaTAlex reports

Palestine Action admits to vandalizing UES Capital One after Israeli weapons loan; NYPD investigates as a hate crime 🎤 @AmandaTAlex reports 📹📸 Amanda Alexandre, NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin

🚨 Andrea Smith-Taylor went on a Christmas Eve shopping spree in 2024 for her kids, but police arrested her that night, sending her home empty handed. Two years later, gifts like a PlayStation and clothes have never been returned. “We have not been able to find them, so she was forced to tell her children that those gifts were just gone,” said her attorney, Anca Grigore, director of the Brooklyn Defender Services’ seizure and surveillance defense project. Smith-Taylor is one of six plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit filed against the city this week. They all claiming their property was improperly seized, retained, sold, destroyed or otherwise never returned. The Brooklyn Defenders, which filed the lawsuit Wednesday, said hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers have their property seized by the NYPD each year in connection with an arrest or as a witness or victim of an alleged crime. When people try to get their belongs—like cash, electronics and jewelry—returned, they face a "labyrinthian system of contradictory instructions, arbitrary requirements, and dead ends across precincts, property clerk offices, and auto pounds,” the Brooklyn Defenders said. “New Yorkers are losing their property to the tune of tens of millions of dollars every single year to the NYPD,” said Grigore. She said bodycam footage showed officers assuring Smith-Taylor they'd get those gifts to her kids, but they never made it. “They're completely lost to the system,” Grigore said, adding the City's current process “functions more to deprive New Yorkers of their property than to ensure that New Yorkers get their property back.” An NYPD spokesperson said the department would review the lawsuit and that the incidents described in it were also under review. 🎤 @amandatalex reports 📸 Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images, New York Daily News

🎮 NYC gallery shows original Donkey Kong artwork, machine ahead of auction 🎤 @AmandaTAlex reports

🍸 A new report breaks down how much drinks cost in New York City, and not surprisingly there's some serious contrast between the city and the boroughs. If you're looking for a bargain, "Manhattan is not the place to be," according to Sam Zukin, the founder of 5PM NYC, which features a popular drink pricing guide using data from bars citywide. "Bayside in Queens, Carroll Gardens, Throgs Neck, Woodside—those are some of the places where you're going to be seeing a cocktail for under $13," he said. Meanwhile, the 10 most expensive cocktails are all in Manhattan, he said. NoMad, where cocktails come in just under $20, is the priciest, followed by neighborhoods like Tribeca, Kips Bay, SoHo, Nolita and Midtown. Even little things can rack up a bill. For example, if a cocktail involves words like "golden" or "silver,” “they’re not just words, they cost you money when you're actually paying," he said. Zukin said Happy Hour is the greatest hack, with drinks down by 30% to 40%. 🎤 @amandatalex reports 📸 smaildaga, uriluxand Ayaan Patel via iStock/Getty Images Plus

Bronx vigil honors mother who died saving baby daughter in push from balcony 🎤 Amanda Alexandre reports

NYPD detective stabbed 10 times in attempted Bronx robbery speaks out 🎤 @AmandaTAlex reports 📹 Amanda Alexandre, Mary-Lyn Buckley, Obtained by 1010 WINS

🚨 ON THE GROUND: New Yorkers protest in anger after man, 28, shot by plainclothes ICE agents with child in his car 🎤 @AmandaTAlex reports

Pro-Palestinian protesters address Mamdani at Oct. 7 vigil: ‘You're just like the rest of them’ 📹 Amanda Alexandre

Some thank Mamdani for attendance at NYC Oct. 7 vigil, others protest 🎤 Amanda Alexandre reports

Cyclist, 71, who died after off-leash dog ran in front of him in Central Park identified by police 🎤 @AmandaTAlex reports 📹 Amanda Alexandre, Mary-Lyn Buckley

NYC hiring event draws unexpected crowds and long lines from job seekers 🎤 Amanda Alexandre reports

💰 There's a life-size Monopoly game at Grand Central 🎤 @amandatalex reports 📸 Amanda Alexandre

Neighbors remember man stabbed to death on Queens subway train: ‘that's crazy' 🎤 @amandatalex reports 📸 Amanda Alexandre, Citizen App

⚾ Yankee Tavern in the Bronx provides space for fans pre- and post-game #RepBX 🎤 @AmandaTAlex reports

⚾ ‘I HATE 'EM’: Yankees fans prepare to host Red Sox in rivalry series #RepBX 🎤 @AmandaTAlex reporting 📽️ Amanda Alexandre 📸 New York Yankees/Getty Images

💎 Lose a diamond in Times Square? This couple is looking for owner of gem found at restaurant 🎤 @amandatalex reports 📸 Michelle DeLucia

Trump says Mamdani ‘off to a start’ as mayor: 'great potential' 📸 @amandatalex