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"We will do everything in our power to retry this case," a spokesperson said after a decision to overturn Harvey Weinstein's conviction.
The subway groper remained on the loose after he touched a straphanger's buttocks Monday morning in a Forest Hills station, police said.
"People that go to libraries, I want to get them safely," he said about spending roughly $60 million on NYPD classes instead of libraries.
Officers Christian Garcia, 32, and Julio Alcantara-Santiago, 40, were arrested Tuesday on sex crime charges, police said.
Jurors found Antony Abreu, 36, guilty Tuesday of murder-for-hire in a businessman's revenge plot against a former worker, prosecutors said.
The would-be assassin of President Ronald Reagan canceled an upcoming concert in New York City by calling the city a "dangerous mess."
"Just say 'Free Palestine' one time," the performance artist repeatedly chides Baldwin before he appears to smack the phone from her hand.
Most pro-Palestinian protesters nabbed in recent days got trespassing summons that won't result in a criminal record, police said.
An unlicensed pot shop crackdown, lower city speed limits and a housing deal are all in the state's much-delayed new budget.
Not one group of New Yorkers supported the tolls coming to Manhattan in June, according to a new poll.
A 49-year-old man's body was found with multiple stab wounds Sunday inside the Public Hotel, police said.
Sorry, but there's not going to be a 17-story Papaya King.
A Florida man — Maxwell Azzarello, 37 — clung to life Friday after setting himself aflame to draw attention to his conspiracy manifesto.
A pair of robbers beat a 22-year-old man with a bat before stealing his phone as he walked home in Fresh Meadows, NYPD officials said.
At least one of three sickened New Yorkers fell ill after an unlicensed Botox injection, city health officials said in a warning Friday.
Don't worry — Saturday morning's April will give way to blue skies.
The long-awaited Sammy's Law, which would allow the city to set its own speed limit, is part of a state budget deal, advocates said.
Two teens appeared in court Thursday to face accusations they killed Nadia Vitels in her Kips Bay apartment, prosecutors said.
A stranger with an umbrella accosted, then punched a 37-year-old straphanger in the mouth in a Jamaica station, police said.
An as-yet-unidentified assailant randomly slapped a 26-year-old woman with a hockey stick in the East Village, police said.
