Today, a case was filed on behalf of the City of New York in New York State Supreme Court against predatory delivery app Motoclick for egregiously violating the city’s Delivery Worker Laws. Motoclick, which operates a restaurant-facing delivery service, blatantly ignored the Minimum Pay Rate and stole directly from workers’ paychecks, with shocking tactics that include charging workers a $10 fee for canceled orders and deducting the entire cost of refunded orders from workers’ pay – sometimes claiming that workers owed the company money. DCWP estimates that Motoclick and CEO Juan Pablo Salinas Salek owe workers millions in stolen pay and damages and seeks to shut the company down completely.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su, DCWP Commissioner Sam Levine, and advocates from Worker’s Justice Project and Los Deliveristas Unidos to announce the lawsuit.
Commissioner Levine also today launched a compliance blitz, sending notices to Instacart, DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber, and others warning them to adhere to new Delivery Worker Laws taking effect on January 26, 2026. This includes Local Laws 107 and 108, related to tipping protections; Local Law 113 related to delivery worker pay transparency; and Local Laws 123 and 124, related to expanding the minimum pay rate to more delivery workers, timely and weekly payment rights, and improved bathroom access for delivery workers. As a report DCWP released earlier this week revealed, DoorDash and Uber engineered design tricks in their interfaces to lower workers’ tip earnings by $550 million.
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On Friday, January 9, 2026, at approximately 1835 hours, New York City Police Department (NYPD) police officers responded to a 911 call of an assault in front of 1500 Bryant Avenue, within the confines of the 42nd Precinct in the Bronx.
Upon arrival officers observed a 34-year-old male with multiple stab wounds throughout the body.
EMS responded and transported the victim to St. Barnabas hospital in critical condition, where he was later pronounced deceased.
Following proper family notification, the deceased has been identified as indicated.
Victim:
Aaron Carpenter
address withheld
Queens, NY 11433
There have been no arrests made and the investigation remains ongoing.
Anyone with information related to this incident is asked to visit the NYPD Crime Stoppers website, call their hotline at 1–800–577–TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1–888–57–PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
Alternatively, a new NYPD Crime Stoppers mobile app is now available for free for download on Apple iOS and Android devices.
All tips will be kept strictly confidential.
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New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli is urging New Yorkers to spend and register the gift cards they receive during the holidays to avoid losing track of their money. After five years of inactivity, retailers are required by law to turn unused gift card balances over to the State Comptroller’s Office of Unclaimed Funds (OUF), where the money can always be claimed. In 2025, DiNapoli’s office recovered more than $28 million in unused gift cards that New Yorkers can claim.
“Spend those gift cards you get this holiday season, so they do not become unclaimed funds,” DiNapoli said. “Also consider taking the extra step of registering the gift card so if you do forget about it, it is easier to return those funds to you. No one wants to lose money, and we want to make sure if you do, you know you can always claim it by going to our website. Funds sent to our office never expire and are free to claim.”
Registering a gift card helps retailers connect unused balances to a person’s name, making it easier for DiNapoli’s office to reunite New Yorkers with their money if a card is lost or goes unused.
Retailers can provide OUF with a name if the person registers the gift card online, if they have been issued a refund, or if the card was purchased with an existing store account. If the owner’s information is not known to a New York retailer, it will report the card details, such as card number and balance, which can be used by the recipient to claim the balance.
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ew York City FC has selected Legends Global as Etihad Park’s Food and Beverage Operating Partner. Legends Global will handle premium suites, concessions, club spaces, and catering throughout the venue. For the Club, this decision goes beyond operations. Food and beverages are being treated as part of how the stadium will feel on matchdays. NYCFC has been open about wanting Etihad Park to reflect the city itself, and that goal shows up clearly in how dining has been planned from the start rather than added later.
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