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Health inspectors found an Irish pub in Manhattan with sewer problems, a trendy sushi spot in Queens with signs of mice and more.
Krissa Cetner and Alex Salazar are celebrating their five year anniversary at mile six of the Brooklyn half marathon where they got married.
About 22,000 runners will take to the streets of Brooklyn for the first RBC Brooklyn Half Marathon in three years. Learn more here.
As proposed, the district could prioritize the desires of brownstone Brooklyn homeowners over affordable housing efforts, advocates said.
"People are hurting. They need leaders who can actually get them help now, and know how to do it," he said. "I do know how to do it."
After hearing that a boy was fatally shot sitting in a car in Brooklyn, Alan Rosen, owner of Junior's, decided to act against gun violence.
The theater-turned-synagogue will all-but certainly be demolished under a luxury building plan, but locals want to save its Art Deco facade.
Tom Suozzi faced backlash for saying the state should double down on bail reform when asked what NY needs to do in the wake of the shooting.
The teen thought he was being questioned by police after jumping the turnstile in a Brooklyn train station.
A woman was driven to Queens and assaulted by a man who promised to take her to Brooklyn, according to police.
Bayside's State Senator John Liu expects the mayor will stay at the helm of the city's public school system — but with some changes.
In a letter signed by most women on the majority-woman Council, lawmakers urged the mayor to buy more formula and help stop price gouging.
The bill was introduced after the 2020 general election, when nearly 14,000 New Yorkers' ballots were nixed under a polling place rule.
The man, who was discovered early in the morning by a park-goer, is the latest person to be found dead in a Queens park by a passerby.
De Blasio, who already considered and backed-out-of two races this year, is among many liberal leaders eyeing a new congressional seat.
Orsolya Gaal, who was stabbed to death in her house, was memorialized by her sons and husband at a service this week, the NY Post reported.
Opponents of the rezoning who are suing NYC over the plan wrote a letter to the EPA saying the city also violated laws in its canal cleanup.
The neighborhood was abuzz with unwelcome guests, but removing the visitors required more backup than a typical sting operation.
Kristof Williams was among a group of men who broke into a home in search of pills and weed and stabbed a 20-year-old to death, the DA said.
