New York
Entries whose effect landed somewhere in New York (NY) — a city, a county, a campus, a detention facility — whichever government acted. Federal conduct inside New York counts here.
This is not the same set as New York's jurisdiction page, which records the 3 entries where New York's own government was the acting authority, wherever those events happened. The two overlap and neither contains the other: place and power are separate facts, and statewide acts appear there and not here.
22 entries · 8 places
One square per place, sized equally, coloured by how many entries landed there. Ordered most-documented first: a grid of equal tiles has no reading order of its own.
New York City city 14 entries
DOJ pressured Mount Sinai Health System into ending gender-affirming care for minors in fourth hospital settlement
On September 4, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an agreement with Mount Sinai Health System requiring the New York City hospital system to stop providing gender-affirming care to transgender minors. Mount Sinai agreed to pay a monetary penalty and dedicate $2 million to free medical care for patients DOJ said were harmed by the care, while denying all of DOJ's allegations. DOJ said the agreement is the fourth it has reached with a hospital system over pediatric gender-affirming care, following Texas Children's Hospital, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and Connecticut Children's Hospital.
Lawsuit alleged Rikers Island staff shackled a pregnant detainee during medical and court transport for months
A federal lawsuit filed August 27, 2026 in Brooklyn alleges the New York City Department of Correction routinely shackled a pregnant woman in full-body restraints — including leg shackles and waist chains — every time she was transported for medical appointments, psychiatric exams, and court appearances during roughly two months of her 2023-2024 detention at Rikers Island. The suit alleges DOC continued using handcuffs for a further month after stopping full-body restraints, and separately kept her in a mental health observation unit — because the jail's specialized unit for pregnant detainees was closed — where she was exposed to pepper spray directed at other detainees. New York state law and DOC policy bar restraining pregnant detainees absent extraordinary, written-justified circumstances, and the city has twice previously settled nearly identical shackling suits for close to $1 million each.
Mamdani administration continued to miss NYC's charter-mandated racial equity plan deadline, judge found
On August 25, 2026, New York Supreme Court Justice Phaedra F. Perry-Bond ruled that the City of New York, under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, independently violated the city's 2022 voter-approved Charter mandate for a final citywide racial equity plan by continuing to miss the deadline his predecessor, Eric Adams, had also missed. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the Commission on Racial Equity, the charter-mandated oversight body, after the Adams administration's law department had denied CORE's request to retain outside counsel; Perry-Bond granted CORE that authority and preserved its ability to sue over any future delay. Mamdani's administration released a draft plan in April 2026 but had not issued a final plan as of the ruling.
NYPD specialized units conducted unconstitutional stops at far higher rates than patrol officers, federal monitor found
A federal court-appointed monitor's Thirty-First Report, filed August 17, 2026 in the Floyd v. City of New York stop-and-frisk case, found that NYPD's specialized units -- the Neighborhood Safety Teams, Community Response Teams, and now-disbanded Public Safety Teams -- made unlawful stops, frisks, and searches at far higher rates than officers on routine patrol, based on a sample of 603 stops in 2025. Unlawful stops occurred in 17% of specialized-unit encounters versus 6% for other officers, and 91% of the people stopped were Black or Hispanic. The units missed nearly every compliance benchmark the monitor had set for the fourth quarter of 2025.
ICE arrested Guatemalan man at New York City immigration court in defiance of federal court orders, including a June 23 nationwide ban
On June 30, 2026, ICE agents arrested a Guatemalan man at the New York City immigration court at 290 Broadway, in what lawyers described as a continuing violation of two federal court orders barring such arrests: a May 18 order from the Southern District of New York covering three Manhattan courts, and a June 23 nationwide order from a federal court in California. The man was transferred to an out-of-state detention facility. The arrest came four days after ICE agents arrested two other immigrants at New York City immigration courts in apparent defiance of the same orders.
ICE arrested two immigrants at New York City immigration courts in defiance of federal court orders, including a June 23 nationwide ban
On June 26, 2026, ICE agents arrested two immigrants at New York City immigration courts in what lawyers described as the first serious violations of two federal court orders barring such arrests: a May 18 order from the Southern District of New York covering three Manhattan courts, and a June 23 nationwide order from a federal court in California. Agents arrested an Ecuadorian man at 26 Federal Plaza and a Dominican man at 290 Broadway; both were transferred to out-of-state detention facilities. ICE denied violating any court order but provided no explanation of how the arrests fit the narrow exceptions permitted by the judges.
ICE arrests a man in a Manhattan immigration court a day after a judge barred such arrests
On May 19, 2026, ICE agents arrested Vinely Alexander Castillo-Norales, a 21-year-old Honduran man, immediately after his hearing inside the immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan — roughly a day after U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel barred ICE from arresting most immigrants inside three New York City immigration courthouses. Castillo-Norales, whom his attorneys said had no criminal convictions and had attended his required hearings, was released hours later after legal aid lawyers filed a habeas petition. The Department of Homeland Security denied violating the order, asserting that Castillo-Norales is a gang member — a claim that, if accepted, would place the arrest within the order's narrow public-safety exception.
ICE arrested immigrants at three Manhattan federal courthouses for over a year without internal legal authority, a federal judge found
On May 18, 2026, U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel (Southern District of New York) issued a 15-page stay barring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from arresting most immigrants inside or around three federal courthouses in lower Manhattan — 26 Federal Plaza, 201 Varick Street, and 290 Broadway — except in narrow circumstances involving imminent national-security or public-safety threats. The court's findings document the underlying abuse this entry records: ICE had conducted courthouse arrests at substantial scale for over a year despite, as federal prosecutors admitted in March 2026, having no internal agency rules establishing the legal authority for the practice, and the agency had continued the arrests after conceding this to prosecutors. A masked-agent arrest was witnessed at 26 Federal Plaza on the morning of May 18, hours before the stay took effect.
ICE used a false missing-child pretext to detain Columbia senior Ellie Aghayeva without a warrant
Around 6 a.m. on February 26, 2026, five federal ICE agents entered an off-campus Columbia University residential building without a judicial warrant by telling building staff they were police searching for a missing child, then arrested Elmina "Ellie" Aghayeva, a 29-year-old Columbia senior from Azerbaijan. Columbia said security-camera footage captured the agents using the missing-child story to gain entry; the Department of Homeland Security said her student visa had been revoked in 2016 and disputed assertions that agents impersonated NYPD officers. Aghayeva was released the same afternoon after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani appealed directly to President Trump, and was placed in removal proceedings.
National Park Service removed the Pride flag from Stonewall National Monument, the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement
On February 10, 2026, the National Park Service quietly removed the Pride flag — which had flown for years at the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan and includes colors representing the transgender community — citing a Department of the Interior directive limiting NPS flagpoles to the U.S. flag and other "congressionally or departmentally authorized" flags. A coalition of LGBTQ+ nonprofits sued a week later, arguing NPS's own policy exempts flags that provide historical context — the same exception that allows Confederate flags at sites like Gettysburg — and the Trump administration settled on April 13, 2026, agreeing to restore the flag permanently within seven days.
ICE agents detained a Brooklyn deacon outside his home without explaining the arrest or reading him his rights, court filings say
On the morning of January 15, 2026, ICE agents detained Deacon Sebastian Renoj Ordoñez and several neighbors outside his Bensonhurst, Brooklyn apartment building as they left for work; according to federal court filings, officers did not explain the arrest or read him his rights. Ordoñez, a church leader for 18 years with no criminal record and U.S.-citizen children and grandchildren, was transferred within 48 hours to a detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. DHS said he had previously been deported under a false identity in 2000, while a federal judge ordered a pause on any further transfer or deportation and directed that he receive a bond hearing within 10 days.
OMB Director Vought froze $18 billion in congressionally-appropriated NYC infrastructure funds, citing pretextual DEI review
On October 1, 2025, the first day of the government shutdown, OMB Director Russell Vought announced a freeze of approximately $18 billion in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funds earmarked for two major New York City projects — the Gateway Hudson River Tunnel and the Second Avenue Subway extension — claiming a review was needed to ensure funds were not "flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles." The freeze blocked reimbursements already owed, including an immediately due $300 million disbursement, and targeted projects in districts represented by Senate and House Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. Critics and legal experts said the DEI rationale was pretextual and that the Impoundment Control Act prohibits such unilateral executive withholding of appropriated funds.
DHS reinstated ICE officer who shoved Ecuadoran woman on video, three days after calling conduct 'unacceptable'
On September 29, 2025, DHS quietly reinstated an ICE officer who had been placed on administrative leave after video captured him shoving an Ecuadoran woman to the ground outside Manhattan's immigration court. The reinstatement came three days after DHS publicly declared the officer's conduct "unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE" and announced a "full investigation," and followed only a "preliminary review." No public statement accompanied the decision; DHS instead deflected follow-up by attacking the character of the detained woman's husband.
ICE detains Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil over pro-Palestinian activism; no criminal charges filed
On March 8, 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Mahmoud Khalil — a lawful permanent resident and Columbia University graduate student who had been a prominent organizer of pro-Palestinian campus protests — with no criminal charges filed against him. Secretary of State Marco Rubio invoked 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(4)(C), a rarely-used statute permitting deportation on foreign-policy grounds, as the basis for removal. Khalil was transferred to an ICE detention facility in Jena, Louisiana, where he was held for approximately three months while his attorneys argued the government was retaliating against him for constitutionally protected political speech.
Buffalo city 2 entries
ICE detained Russian asylum-seeker at Buffalo airport, held her nearly a month
ICE officers detained Alevtina Soboleva, a 59-year-old Russian asylum-seeker from Sunnyvale, California, at the Buffalo airport on July 20, 2026, as she and her daughter prepared to fly home from a trip to Niagara Falls, despite her asylum application still being under review. Her daughter says Soboleva was shackled, held in a cage, and denied water and bathroom access while being transferred between detention facilities, and was held for nearly a month at a federal facility in Louisiana before an immigration judge set a $10,000 bond and she was released.
Border Patrol leaves near-blind Rohingya refugee in freezing Buffalo lot; death ruled homicide
On February 19, 2026, U.S. Border Patrol agents took Nurul Amin Shah Alam — a 56-year-old, nearly blind Rohingya refugee who spoke little English — from a county jail and released him alone outside a closed Tim Hortons in Buffalo, New York, in near-freezing cold. He was found dead five days later, and the Erie County medical examiner ruled the death a homicide caused by a perforated duodenal ulcer precipitated by hypothermia and dehydration. DHS initially said agents had left him at a "safe location," but surveillance footage contradicted that account.
Bohemia city 1 entry
Education Dept. found Connetquot school district violated Title VI by dropping its Native American mascot to comply with state law
On January 22, 2026, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights concluded that Connetquot Central School District on Long Island, New York, violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by renaming its "Thunderbirds" mascot to "T-Birds" under a settlement complying with a 2023 New York State Education Department regulation banning Native American mascots and imagery in public schools. Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey said the district "engaged in race- and national-origin-based discrimination" by abandoning the name and ordered it to revert to "Thunderbirds" and all associated logos; New York's Education Department called the finding "a mockery of our nation's civil rights laws."
Cato city 1 entry
ICE agents detained 57 workers in a Cato, NY factory raid; judge found warrants didn't authorize the detentions
On September 4, 2025, roughly 60 armed federal agents, supported by the Cayuga and Oswego County sheriff's offices, raided the Nutrition Bar Confectioners factory in Cato, New York and detained 57 of the roughly 160 workers present, though supporting affidavits named or described fewer than 10 potentially undocumented individuals. Fifty-two of the 57 were deported and five were charged with illegal re-entry; U.S. District Judge Brenda K. Sannes later found that the two warrants used authorized only the seizure of business records and the questioning of workers, not their detention, and ruled that agents violated the Fourth Amendment rights of one charged worker, Argentina Juarez-Lopez.
Hempstead city 1 entry
Newsday reporting revealed HUD withdrew its own finding that Hempstead, NY housing authority discriminated against disabled, Black residents
Newsday reported on August 20, 2026, that HUD's director of compliance and disability rights, Andrew Hill, had notified the Town of Hempstead (NY) Housing Authority that HUD was withdrawing its own 2024 finding that the authority used an illegal point system to discriminate against disabled applicants and to "systematically" further racial segregation on its public-housing waitlist. The reversal came days after a Newsday investigation made the previously undisclosed finding public, without the housing authority requesting reversal and without HUD referring the matter to the Justice Department or withholding funding as it could have done instead.
Roosevelt city 1 entry
ICE held Roosevelt, NY man incommunicado for two months, attorney says, disclosing his location only after a judge ordered it
Manuel Hernandez Zelada, 27, of Roosevelt, New York, was arrested by immigration agents on November 14, 2025 while walking to a deli, and his family had no contact with him for nearly two months. Attorneys with Make the Road NY filed a habeas corpus petition on January 7, 2026 demanding ICE disclose his whereabouts; U.S. District Judge Sanket Bulsara ordered ICE and DHS on January 8 to disclose his current and prior locations, and officials called his attorney with his location the next day. He was found in a federal facility in New Mexico, having been held in four different facilities in New York, New Jersey, Texas, and New Mexico since his arrest, and spoke to his father by phone for the first time on January 10.
Syracuse city 1 entry
DHS agents entered Syracuse polling place, threatened election worker over Instagram post naming officer who fatally shot protester Renée Good
On June 24, 2026, two DHS/ICE agents arrived at Syracuse Central Library — an active polling place during the city's primary election — and confronted elections inspector Paigelynne Gonyea over a January 2026 Instagram post in which she named the ICE officer who fatally shot anti-ICE protester Renée Good. Agents handed Gonyea a form letter warning her she "may be in violation of federal law" for the post, which was based on a published Minneapolis Star Tribune investigation, and pressured her to delete it. Gonyea refused.
West Point campus 1 entry
West Point ordered professor to stop teaching human-caused climate change, then declined to renew his contract after he objected, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein, a tenured geography professor who taught climatology at the United States Military Academy for 17 years, sued West Point and three administrators in federal court on August 24, 2026, alleging he was pushed out for refusing to comply with a directive -- issued on White House orders -- to stop teaching cadets that human activity is a primary driver of climate change. According to the lawsuit, West Point stripped Kalkstein of tenure in 2025, ordered the geography department in September 2025 to stop teaching anthropogenic climate change under threat of dissolving the department, and declined to renew his contract in 2026 after he protested the directive to the academy dean. West Point said in a statement it was aware of the allegations but declined further comment.