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FDA cracks down on popular gay party drug ‘poppers’

FDA cracks down on popular gay party drug ‘poppers’

Poppers, made of alkyl nitrates, have operated in a legal gray area for decades — masquerading as cleaning solvents and nail polish remover, according to Fast Company — but the inhalants have now seemingly fallen under scrutiny.


Albany to crime victims: Drop dead

Albany to crime victims: Drop dead

Over the past weeks of budget debates, “progressive” legislators and advocates have argued that because dismissal rates for indicted felonies — think heinous murders and shootings — have not skyrocketed under the discovery law, everything is fine.


Exclusive | Overwhelming number of New Yorkers support changes to take mentally ill off streets, subways: poll

Exclusive | Overwhelming number of New Yorkers support changes to take mentally ill off streets, subways: poll

The poll — conducted by Tulchin Research for ABNY — also found that 73% of voters said that the number of public safety incidents in New York involving individuals with untreated severe mental illness has increased in recent years.


Exclusive | NYC residents beg Trump admin to close controversial safe injection site: ‘We need federal intervention’

Exclusive | NYC residents beg Trump admin to close controversial safe injection site: ‘We need federal intervention’

In November 2021, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio celebrated the nation’s first government-backed “overdose prevention centers” opening in East Harlem and Washington Heights, where junkies could snort or inject their drug of choice under medical supervision, in addition to picking up clean paraphernalia to use either in or outside their walls.


Exclusive | NYPD patrol car beloved cop was executed in by drug deal was left for ruin— until now

Exclusive | NYPD patrol car beloved cop was executed in by drug deal was left for ruin— until now

The estimated $30,000 restoration effort is a labor of love for about a dozen retired officers who will ask the NYPD to install the car at the Police Academy in Queens so young cops can learn about Byrne, 22, who was guarding the home of a witness in a drug dealer’s criminal case on Feb. 26, 1988, when he was murdered.


Career criminal with more than 70 prior busts tries to rape woman on Manhattan subway: cops

Career criminal with more than 70 prior busts tries to rape woman on Manhattan subway: cops

Homeless maniac Tyriek Martin — who already has at least 70 busts under his belt, including for randomly bashing a 2-year-old autistic girl in the face with a 20-pound suitcase — heinously attacked a female straphanger Thursday, police said.


Exclusive | Kanye West ‘relapsed’ and is inhaling nitrous oxide, leaving his memory ‘messed up’: sources

Exclusive | Kanye West ‘relapsed’ and is inhaling nitrous oxide, leaving his memory ‘messed up’: sources

Last August, Yiannopoulos accused dentist Thomas Connelly of getting the rapper addicted to nitrous oxide — which is not an illegal substance, although in California- it is an offense to buy it “with the intent to inhale” — in a sworn affidavit filed with the California Dental Board.


Exclusive | ‘Steroid Olympics’ raises millions from backers led by Donald Trump Jr. as investors plot US debut

Exclusive | ‘Steroid Olympics’ raises millions from backers led by Donald Trump Jr. as investors plot US debut

While his games entice athletes to use drugs with hefty prizes — a $1 million bag for record-breakers in track and swim events, and a five- or six-figure upfront payment to participants — the Olympics similarly push dangerous substances, he said.


Exclusive | Reputed Tren de Aragua gangsters nabbed in NYC felony drug raid — only to be cut loose with a slap on the wrist

Exclusive | Reputed Tren de Aragua gangsters nabbed in NYC felony drug raid — only to be cut loose with a slap on the wrist

Jose Tamaronis-Caldera, 27, and Richard Garcia, 33, both tied to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, were busted on felony drug and gun charges in a Feb. 5 raid at V&R Auto and Collision in Woodside, along with 54-year-old shop owner Rafael Nieves, according to sources and court records.


Adams and Hochul need to follow federal law and scuttle illegal sanctuary laws

Adams and Hochul need to follow federal law and scuttle illegal sanctuary laws

It’s a federal crime to intentionally conceal, harbor or shield from detection a person who is in the United States unlawfully — and New York’s Green Light law does just that, barring the Department of Motor Vehicles from releasing driver info to the feds without a court order, subpoena or warrant from a judge.


Kanye West dramatically quits X after Super Bowl jab at Taylor Swift

Kanye West dramatically quits X after Super Bowl jab at Taylor Swift

Hours later, West took to X to unleash a nonstop rant during which he voiced his support for Sean “Diddy” Combs and Chris Brown — both of whom have faced sexual abuse allegations as the former currently remains incarcerated.


Trio accused of robbing, fatally drugging men leaving NYC gay clubs found guilty

Trio accused of robbing, fatally drugging men leaving NYC gay clubs found guilty

Jayqwan Hamilton, Robert DeMaio and Jacob Barroso were convicted by a Manhattan jury on every count prosecutors hit them with — including murder, robbery, burglary, conspiracy and larceny — for the ghoulish crimes, which left dead political consultant John Umberger and Brooklyn social worker Julio Ramirez.