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Even though Mayor Eric Adams announced during his State of the City address that the city will invest $650 million to tackle homelessness, more details were revealed on the city’s historic investment. On Wednesday, Adams said his administration will start a new program called “Bridge to Home.” This program is in collaboration with...

The timeless Times Square treasure made its final descent Wednesday, coming down from its perch on a pole atop 1 Times Square after delighting millions in person and watching on TV for almost 20 years. But it won’t be going away entirely.

Rudy Giuliani has settled with two Georgia elections workers in a deal they say let him keep his homes and personal belongings in return for compensation and a promise to never defame them again. The agreement announced Thursday came after the women were awarded a $148 million judgment against Giuliani. It came just as the 80-year-old former New Yo...

New York City emergency officials have issued a “Cold Weather Alert” amid a stretch of below-freezing wind chills that will only get colder into next week. The coldest air of the season so far will crash into the tri-state on starting early next week with “feels like” temperatures Tuesday dropping as low as -7 degrees. Wind ...

A fire in the garbage shoot of a Jersey City high-rise apartment building early Thursday morning led to a large response from firefighters, who were able to extinguish it without any injuries. Firefighters responded to the blaze at 280 Marin Boulevard around 3:40 a.m. and found a fire in the building’s compact room and garbage shoot going fro...

Since the 1960s, New York City’s Public Health Laboratory building has been on the front lines of the fight against disease.  The facility at 455 First Avenue in Manhattan has been home to scores of government scientists who’ve battled everything from COVID-19 to tuberculosis, HIV, and Ebola.  Now, the aging public building is on the verge of being...

A woman was arrested in the death of a Queens building superintendent whose body was found in garbage bags under a bed in her apartment, and police said the suspect and her husband were two years behind on rent. Sandra Coto Navarro was charged with murder, tampering with evidence and weapon possession Thursday, according to police, two days after t...

The start of 2025 has been a chilly one. And temperatures have not bottomed out yet, with the coldest temperatures seen in nearly two years set to arrive next week

Flurries or light snow showers are possible Thursday evening — but that system doesn’t look like anything all that exciting. The potentially, slightly more exciting chance of snow comes Sunday into Monday when the tri-state could get some widespread snow. The forecast is still preliminary but the most significant snow totals look like t...

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio must pay a $475,000 fine levied against him for misusing public funds on a police security detail during his failed White House bid, a judge ruled this week, dismissing the ex-mayor’s legal challenge as “perplexing” and “entirely baseless.” The decision blocks de Blasio’s latest effort to erase the hef...

A Brooklyn man is facing murder and other charges after allegedly stabbing his wife to death during a jealous rage and attacking the couple’s 15-year-old son with a knife when the teen tried to help his mom, the local district attorney said. Gordon Lewis, 45, of Canarsie, Brooklyn was arraigned on an indictment in which he is charged with sec...

The son of an inmate who died after a prolonged beating by New York prison guards said in a federal lawsuit Wednesday that his father’s attackers “systematically and casually beat him to death” in a correctional system that tolerates violence. Robert L. Brooks Sr., 43, died on Dec. 10, a day after the beating at Marcy Correctional Facility&nbs...

National Bagel Day only comes once a year, but we prefer to celebrate the magnificent brunch staple much more frequently.