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Metal detectors could be added to migrant tent shelters after the slaying of Dafren Canizalez, 24, this weekend, Mayor Eric Adams said.
Hundreds of protesters blocked traffic on the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges, as well as the Holland Tunnel.
New York City is now nearly 700 days without an inch of snow — and a super soaker of rain is on the horizon Tuesday.
The long-promised +Pool — a filtered pool in one of New York City's rivers — will get $16 million under a proposal by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
New York City is right on the edge of a major winter storm that could bring either rain, snow or both.
Feast on the New Year's first plate of food news.
The former president should also face a lifetime ban from New York's real estate industry, argued AG Letitia James in a new court filing.
Tests, new hospitalizations and even sewage samples all show the same thing: the coronavirus is roaring back.
A crew of bank robbers made off with $6,300 in a spate of holdups in Queens as recently as this week, police said.
Two subway lines remained partly suspended during Friday's rush hour after a train collision that left 26 injured, MTA officials said.
Chima Williams, 43, collapsed while playing basketball Thursday, officials said.
"Today’s lawsuit should serve as a warning," said Mayor Eric Adams about a complaint filed Thursday against 17 charter bus companies.
"He lives in a fort," Eric Adams said about Public Advocate Jumaane Williams. The watchdog shot back that Hizzoner lives in Fort Lee, NJ.
Four straphangers rang in the New Year by beating and stabbing a man who bid them well in 2024, police said.
But the forecast is still in flux ahead of an expected weekend storm.
A murder, shootings and armed carjackings in Queens are linked to four Trinitarios street gang members, authorities said.
"We are turning the corner of crime in the city," Mayor Eric Adams said about the NYPD's crime data for last year.
The early morning crash along the Cross Island Parkway remains under investigation, police said.
Get ready for Brooklyn Bridge walks without dodging rows of vendor tables.
Javel Lawton, 15, is the second reported New Yorker to die by murder during 2024.
