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Emergency crews recovered the bodies of a woman and her 9-month-old son early Tuesday from a car submerged in a New Jersey pond. A passerby saw the car in the waters of New Market Pond near Stelton Road and Lakeview Avenue in Piscataway around dawn, though authorities are not sure how long it had been there. The woman was identified…

Free at-home rapid COVID test kits were slated to be available for order through a government website starting Wednesday, but many users reported being able to place their orders late Tuesday morning.

After months of coy flirtation, former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday he will not run for governor. “No, I am not going to be running for governor of New York state,” De Blasio said in a video tweeted Tuesday morning from his block in Brooklyn. “But I am going to devote every fiber of my being…

The highly contagious omicron variant threw return-to-office plans out the window for a vast majority of major Manhattan employers, a new survey finds.

Broadway theaters will dim their lights Wednesday in honor of trailblazing actor, director and cultural icon Sidney Poitier, who passed away earlier this month at the age of 94. The Committee of Theatre Owners will dim the lights of Broadway for one minute at exactly 7:45 p.m. “Although Sidney Poitier’s brilliance shone on Broa...

New York’s battle against the omicron COVID-19 variant continues to head in the right direction following the dramatic surge in the midst of the holiday season, with numbers seemingly leveling off of late and officials seeing a possible light at the end of the tunnel.

Scientists may be one step closer to explaining one distinctive COVID-19 symptom. A recent study suggests a genetic risk factor is linked to loss of taste or smell. The journal of Nature Genetics published a study on Monday identifying a certain genetic risk factor that may be linked to the coronavirus symptoms of loss of taste and smell. According...

New York would boost state school aid, provide sweeping property tax relief and deliver bonuses to health care workers over the next year if lawmakers pass a $216.3 billion budget outlined by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday. Hochul is proposing a 3.1% spending increase in taxpayer dollars for her 2022 proposed budget, which would run from April throug...

A 15-year-old girl was found dead in a Brooklyn street after she was apparently hit by a school bus, and the driver later arrested, police said Monday. The vehicle, described as a yellow school bus, was gone when officers arrived around 8 a.m. at the scene on Bedford Avenue and Avenue P, near the Midwood neighborhood. They were answering a…...

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy was inaugurated for a second term Tuesday, taking the oath of office under strict COVID-19 testing, vaccination and masking requirements, and declaring that New Jersey’s progressive policies could work nationwide. Murphy was reelected in a close race in November, becoming the first Democrat to win reelect...

A Suffolk County man is in custody after police say he stole three cars in less than 24 hours, eventually being caught driving one of them out of a mall parking lot. Claudy Fleury Jr., 25, of Wheatley Heights, faces a litany of charges including grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. Cops responded to the Walt Whitman Mall…...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is enjoying an early honeymoon with the voters, who rate him more favorably than any other politician in the state. That’s the finding of a new Siena College poll released Tuesday, which put Adams at a +22 net favorability rating, far higher than any local, state or federal official or body in the survey…....

After a woman was pushed to her death in front of a New York City subway train beneath Times Square over the weekend, Mayor Eric Adams acknowledged to reporters Tuesday that even he didn’t feel entirely safe riding the rails.