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10/09/2025

🚔 1010 WINS reporter Monica Guy took a ride on Thursday in one of the NYPD's new hybrid SUVs. A new generation of police vehicles with the promise of a greener future hit the streets on Friday.

"Police intercept the utilities made by Ford; half internal combustion, and half electric motor," executive director of fleet services Steve Ciregna said.

The vehicles aren't losing any muscle or power, he said.

"The beauty is, it's a seamless integration as far as the officer's are concerned," Ciregna continued.

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10/09/2025

A Long Island woman was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly setting fire to her home with three children inside last month, Suffolk County Police said.

10/09/2025

🚨 BREAKING: A grand jury has indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on a fraud charge, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday.

10/09/2025

🚨 An on-duty MTA worker was punched in the face at the same Downtown Brooklyn subway station where a man was beaten to death a day earlier, sources said Thursday.

10/09/2025

🗳️ NYC VOTES 2025 — Democratic candidate for mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani spoke with 1010 WINS’ Susan Richard on Thursday regarding his public safety platform to create a Department of Community Safety, which would make mental health professionals the primary responders to mental health calls.

Despite the latest NYPD statistics showing a notable dip in crime across the city, Mamdani acknowledged that when New Yorkers are asked about how safe they feel, they share from experience. According to the candidate, when he speaks with constituents, the place they say they feel most ill-at-ease is on public transit.

"Oftentimes what they're actually describing are not things we might not categorize as crime, but they are signs of a mental health crisis, and a homelessness crisis," Mamdani said.

Mamdani said that the city should keep the number of police patrols consistent in the system, but the important thing is to "allow the cops to do the job of focusing on serious crimes, we don't ask them to be the primary responders to the mental health crisis."

His proposed plan, the Department of Community Safety, would have teams of mental health outreach workers that would be deployed to the 100 subway stations with the highest level of mental health crises and homelessness, so their needs can be met, and they can be removed from the system.

🔊 Susan Richard interviews: http://spr.ly/6180AsxK2

10/09/2025

🗳️ NYC VOTES 2025 — NYC Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani sat down with 1010 WINS anchor Susan Richard on Thursday, and discussed how he would respond to potential actions by Donald Trump's administration, specifically regarding the deployment of the National Guard to New York City and cuts to federal funding.

Mamdani stated that the Trump administration's threats should not be treated as a foregone conclusion. He argues that they are subject to the law and can be challenged.

"The first thing is we have to stop treating everything that he says as if it's already the law just by virtue of him saying it," Mamdani said. "He is just like any other person in this country, he's subject to the laws that we have in this country."

Citing California as an example where the state's attorney general successfully fought back against withheld federal funding, Mamdani noted that for "every dollar they spent on legal fees, they recovered more than $30,000 in federal funding that would have otherwise been lost." He pledged to use "every tool" available to "fight back."

Mamdani characterized Trump's threats as a "political tool" intended to "intimidate Democrats across the country" and dismissed the idea that these threats are about public safety, pointing out that some of the states with the highest crime rates are led by Republican governors. He also voiced his agreement with a statement from NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish, "We don't need the National Guard here. We have the NYPD, they are the ones who will be in charge of keeping New York safe."

Mamdani framed Trump's actions as an attack on "the fabric of this city," including the jobs and infrastructure projects that would be affected by a loss of federal funding.

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10/09/2025

🗳️ Democratic candidate for mayor Zohran Mamdani told 1010 WINS’ Susan Richard on Thursday that he’s confident his administration would have a better working relationship with Albany than in the past, when City Hall and the governor’s office were famously at odds.

Mamdani has outlined a vision to make NYC more affordable, and while some of the proposals, such as freezing the rent, can be implemented locally, others, like free city buses, require working with Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Legislature.

“I’m very excited of all of the people in Albany, we’ve received the endorsements especially of Carl Heastie, who’s the speaker of the state Assembly, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the majority leader of the state Senate, and Gov. Kathy Hochul,” Mamdani said.

“They’ve not endorsed just my campaign but also our affordability agenda,” Mamdani said. “It speaks to a partnership that we’re actually building, such that we can deliver on this agenda for New Yorkers.”

He pointed to former Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration, which had to "fight Andrew Cuomo" to deliver universal pre-K.

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10/09/2025

🗳️ NYC VOTES 2025 — NYC Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Kwame Mamdani sat down with 1010 WINS anchor Susan Richard on Thursday, and elucidated his use of the word "genocide" to describe the situation in Gaza.

"Genocide is a term that I'm using not as my own, independent assessment, but rather a reflection of leading genocide scholars from across the world," Mamdani said. "These also include Israeli scholars themselves, including Amos Goldberg, Daniel Blatman. And these are the findings also of a number of United Nations experts."

Mamdani said that the use of "genocide" is a "reflection of these facts," but discouraged the use of language like "globalize" and "from the river to the sea," after speaking with Jewish New York community members who have a different experience with the phrasing.

"I know there are some who use this as a reference to a call to the end of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land," Mamdani said, but acknowledged that his job as Democratic nominee and potentially mayor is to "reckon with the complexity of the nuance of it" through engagement.

The Queens assemblymember said that he has had meetings with Jewish community leaders and elected officials, and discussed the experience of one rabbi who found issue with the language.

"That same phrase, was one that, for her, brought memories back of bus bombings in Haifa, of restaurant attacks in Jerusalem, and the phrase left her with a fear that that violence could come home to New York City," Mamdani said. "And in hearing that, and in wrestling with that, and the distance between these two things, I then said that this is language I would discourage."

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10/09/2025

"These individuals are not members of the prosecution team, or trial counsel or staff supervised by the prosecution team, or otherwise employed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Nor are they law enforcement agents working on this prosecution," prosecutors wrote in a submission in Manhattan federal court.

10/09/2025

A Manhattan man was arrested for allegedly stabbing an off-duty NYPD officer who had intervened to stop him from stealing from a parked vehicle on Long Island.

A Manhattan man was arrested for allegedly stabbing an off-duty NYPD officer who had intervened to stop him from stealing from a parked vehicle in Lindenhurst.

10/09/2025

Join 1010 WINS for a live, in-studio conversation with New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
He sits down with Susan Richard to talk about his vision for a more affordable city.

10/09/2025

🗳️ NYC VOTES 2025: Zohran Kwame Mamdani will sit down soon for a live interview. Stream it here on the 1010 WINS page, or at TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and X.

The Democratic candidate and Queens assemblyman will speak one-on-one with Susan Richard to address the questions New Yorkers want to know most, with less than a month to go until Election Day.

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