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The Yale School of Public Health honored a 9-year-old Black girl, Bobbi Wilson, for her efforts to curb the invasive spotted lantern fly after a neighbor reported to her police as she sprayed flies in her hometown of Caldwell, New Jersey.

Bed Bath & Beyond is set to close an additional 87 stores – with 66 in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut alone – as the struggling retailer continues to face financial woes. The latest round of closures comes after the home goods chain announced plans last year to shutter approximately 150 stores and cut 20 percent of its workforce…....

Anyone hoping to take the 7 train in and out of Manhattan during the weekends from Feb. 4 through April 23 will need to make alternate plans, as service will be shutting down between Hudson yards and Queensboro Plaza.

The FBI’s New Jersey office issued a statement saying it was aware of the investigation into the death of a 30-year-old council member found shot in her SUV and prepared to assist in the case as needed. Local and county investigators, meanwhile, continued to hunt both for a motive and a suspect in the Wednesday night killing of Eunice......

A murder charge against a New York State Police trooper accused of deliberately ramming an SUV during a pursuit, causing the vehicle to flip and leading to the death of an 11-year-old Brooklyn girl, has been dropped — and the victim’s family is outraged.

One of Central Park’s most notable residents took an unscheduled flight late Thursday, leading to an all-night standoff between zoo staff and Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl. Central Park Zoo officials first noticed trouble around 8:30 p.m. when the bird’s exhibit had been vandalized and its stainless steel mesh was cut. Flaco, they reali...

It’s often known as the town you pass on the way to the Hamptons or the North Fork, but now Riverhead is having its own moment after it was named to a list that also includes the likes of the Azores, Curacao and French Polynesia.

Thousands of Honda and Acura vehicles with air bags at 50% risk of rupturing are still on the roads.

A Michigan man says he was left with a $1,000 bill after his 6-year-old son ordered a virtual smorgasbord of food from several restaurants. Keith Stonehouse says the food piled up quickly at his Detroit-area home Saturday after his son, Mason, used Stonehouse’s Grubhub account to order such food as jumbo shrimp, salads and chili cheese fries. Stone...

After years struggling to make ends meet, this couple found success in New York City.

Ticketing for the North American leg of Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” tour begins Feb. 6, said Ticketmaster, which is trying to avoid a Taylor Swift-style fiasco.

Three men who visited a New York City gay bar were robbed of thousands of dollars using facial recognition access on their phones, the New York Police Department confirmed on Thursday.

The case of a 43-year-old woman who was found dead in a Brooklyn apartment in mid-December when cops responded to a call of a bad smell has been ruled a homicide, authorities say, and police are now searching for her killer. The NYPD identified the victim Thursday as Tamara Graham. She was discovered unconscious in the living room of her…...