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Police in a New Jersey borough bordering the Hudson River shot and killed a man allegedly armed with a knife and exhibiting “threatening behavior,” its mayor said Saturday. The incident unfolded around 8 a.m. at a John Street townhouse in Fort Lee, Mayor Mark Sokolich said. Limited details are known about the man, but he may have been i...

The man police say was behind the beating of a 90-year-old Manhattan candy store legend, left bleeding on the ground outside his East Village shop he has run the last 50 years, has been arrested. Luis Peroza was arrested late Friday, days after Ray Alvarez, owner of the eponymous Ray’s Candy Store, was the victim of the 3 a.m. attack…...

A waiter at a New York restaurant was convicted of manslaughter for stabbing a co-worker with a broken bottle during an argument over $20 worth of tips, prosecutors announced Wednesday. David Jimenez Salazar, 25, was convicted by a jury on Tuesday of fatally stabbing 37-year-old busser Elvin Padilla on July 16, 2020 at the Hicksville restaurant on ...

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.

A New Jersey man who exchanged sexually explicit videos and images with a 13-year-old New York girl has admitted paying $20,000 in bitcoin to have the child victim murdered before eventually calling it off.

An 11-year-old girl’s artwork is at the center of a debate at a Michigan school after the child’s mother said her daughter was unjustly targeted due to a misinterpretation of the drawing.

New NYC subway cars will replace the ones that have been running for nearly 50 years. But you’re going to have to wait until late 2023. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

New York’s embattled congressman found himself the target of vandalism at the end of another scandal-ridden week. Someone took gold spray paint to Rep. George Santos’ district office in Queens, police confirmed Friday. A photo shared online shows the paint sprayed across the front window of his office off Northern Boulevard in Douglasto...

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…....

Kyrie Irving apparently has had enough of Brooklyn, reportedly giving the Nets a choice to either trade him before the Feb. 9 NBA trade deadline or let him walk in 2023 free agency.

An Orlando-bound United Airlines flight had its wing clipped by a Boeing 787 at Newark Liberty International Airport Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed. No injuries were reported in the accident, which happened around 8:45 a.m., the agency said. The Boeing 787 was being tugged to a different location when it clipped the United fl...

The impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have been far-reaching, a bracing reality further supported by the latest target of the highly-transmissible virus: New York’s deer population. New research collected from a team at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine — published last month — found the virus spreading r...

The mother of a 2-year-old boy found buried in a Connecticut park at the start of the year, was arrested in connection to the case, police said. On Friday morning, Stamford Police Department’s Major Crime investigators arrested Iris Rivera-Santos, 29, on injury to a minor, hindering prosecution, tampering with evidence, and cruelty to persons...