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Investigators in the New York City suburbs continue to scour the home of a Manhattan architect charged in a string of slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings. Friday marked the fifth straight day of the renewed search at Rex Heuermann’s dilapidated, single-family home in Massapequa Park on Long Island. Police in the early afternoon were seen rem...

Thousands of New Jersey residents were bracing for a sweaty night as utility crews raced to restore power knocked out by a Friday morning fire. A substation fire around 11 a.m. plunged a large swath of Sayreville residents into darkness and injured a couple of utility employees. Estimates suggested some 6,000 customers were without power, and air c...

Brooklyn just got a little greener, just in time for summer. Ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, Luna Park introduced what it says is New York City’s first electric go-kart racing at its iconic amusement park on Coney Island. “Electric Eden Raceway” is part of the park’s sustainability effort and recent expansion to attract v...

The unofficial start to summer is finally here. It’s that time of year to host backyard barbecues and head down the shore. As long as the weather cooperates. And it should – for MOST of the weekend. By “most,” think Saturday and Sunday. The first two days of the holiday weekend will be mainly dry with temperatures in the upper...

The popular Bethpage Air Show will return to the skies over Jones Beach this Memorial Day weekend. This year’s air show at Jones Beach State Park marks the 20th anniversary of the hugely popular event and the 95th birthday of Jones Beach. The air show is scheduled to take place Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26 from 10 a.m….

Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Zoo is welcoming its first guests since devastating flooding back in September. The zoo has been closed for 239 days, as crews worked to repair exhibits and other infrastructure. Tropical Storm Ophelia flooded the zoo with as much as 25 feet of water. The 12-acre zoo’s 400 animals were OK, but the zoo’s in...

Subway service on the 4/5/6 lines is returning to regular service with detalys between Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall and 86th St in Manhattan after a person was struck by a train Friday morning, according to the MTA. The MTA said the person was struck near 28 St. Paramedics responded to the scene around 9:23 a.m. but the victim did not survive…....

New York is offering up to $90 million in tax credits for news outlets to hire and retain journalists in an effort to help keep the shrinking local news industry afloat. The U.S. newspaper industry has been in a long decline, driven by factors including a loss in advertising revenue as outlets have moved from primarily print to mostly digital&#8230...

The owner of seven unlicensed cannabis shops in New York whose promotions included an Easter egg hunt has been fined more than $15 million after state officials complained he repeatedly ignored notices to stop operating without approval, authorities said. A state Supreme Court justice in Lyons, New York, imposed the fine against David Tul...

A 42-year-old Californian faces an attempted murder indictment for allegedly randomly violently attacking a carpenter leaning against a pillar at the Port Authority Bus Terminal last month, stabbing him almost 10 times, officials said Friday. Michael McCloskey, who is from Watsonville, California, also is charged with assault, criminal possession o...

Jack Alexy can dominate in the pool, but some of his other talents make him unique. Get to know the New Jersey native ahead of the Paris Olympics.

The NYPD is looking for the suspect in an attempted rape of a 15-year-old girl in a Bronx park last weekend, according to police. The victim was walking on a path in Pelham Bay Park around 5 p.m. on May 18 when a man approached her to engage in a conversation, police said. The suspect then put the girl in…

Yet another earthquake was recorded in New Jersey overnight, not far from the location where the U.S. Geological Survey reported two other quakes in recent weeks — and a rare magnitude 4.8 quake in early April. This time, it was a 2.9 magnitude, USGS says, recorded about 4 miles west-southwest of Gladstone in Somerset County. That’s jus...