Italian-Jewish artist Amedeo Modigliani’s 1917 painting “Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)” was sold for $157 million, a Picasso’s 1932 “Le Repos,” was snagged for $36.9 million at a huge Sotheby’s auction last Monday. The Modigliani painting is considered the greatest…

On Thursday, May 9, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. released his objections to allowing his probe of Eric Schneiderman be taken over by a special prosecutor. During a joint news conference at Governor Cuomo’s office in Manhattan, Vance explained…

On Friday, May 11, the jury returned a guilty verdict on the corruption charges against the former Assembly 1speaker Sheldon Silver, convicting him on counts of extortion and honest services fraud. On Wednesday, May 9, after seven days and testimonies…

On Thursday, May 10, police revealed that they arrested the Boro Park Shomrim safety patrol’s president on charges of raping a 15-year-old girl repeatedly in his home. The politically connected 59-year-old Jacob “Yanky” Daskal was arrested at his home on…

Last week, the Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn state senator Simcha Felder showed he knows how to use his position as the divided legislative body’s swing vote when it came to allocating $16 million in discretionary education funds. Over 24 programs in…