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Manhattan 6 hours ago

Chinatown Souvenir Shop Goes Up in Flames, Injuring 10

Ten people were hurt and nearly two dozen families displaced Friday afternoon following a devastating fire that officials say originated in the souvenir shop on the ground floor of a 6-story Chinatown...

health care in nyc 8 hours ago

Free and Low-Cost Health Care for NYC Residents? What to Know About ‘NYC Care'
Bronx 10 hours ago

Boyfriend Charged in Murder of NYC Woman Found Dead in Her Bed: Cops

TikTok 9 hours ago

Long Island Parents Sue TikTok, Claim Videos Glorifying Suicide Led to Teen's Death

A Long Island couple is suing the company that owns TikTok, saying that videos on the popular social media app glorified suicide and led to their son’s death. Dean and Michelle Nasca state in the laws...
New Jersey 11 hours ago

NJ Woman Made $10 Million Charging Insurance for Bogus Meds, Feds Say

One woman is going down for a multi-million dollar insurance scam after running up bogus claims on medications her pharmacies never shipped to customers, federal officials in New Jersey said. Authorit...
New York 6 hours ago

NY's Power to Regulate Religious Schools Trimmed by Judge

Parents cannot be required to pull their children from private schools in New York that fail to meet state-designated standards, a judge decided, striking down a key provision of rules recently passed...
NJ Transit 11 hours ago

NJ Transit Gets to Ban Rider for Year Over Gross Acts, Judge Rules

Here’s an NJ Transit story that commuters might actually be pleased to hear. A judge just granted the transit agency’s request to ban a 36-year-old customer for a year after he had been ch...

New Jersey 12 hours ago

An NJ Mom Died in a Crash Driving Home From Work. Her Family Found Out From a Blog

A family is inconsolable as they grieve the death of their loved one, Mucielouise Bostic — a mother of four who was killed in a single-car crash in Newark early Monday as she made her way home from a late-night nursing shift. “I will never see her. I will never see her … it will always hurt,” Mucielouise’s mother, Jennifer,…...
news 7 hours ago

Trump Live Updates: Threatening Letter With Nonhazardous White Powder Found at Manhattan DA's Office

A New York grand jury has been hearing evidence of hush money payment benefiting former President Donald Trump. Follow live updates on the probe.
racism 16 hours ago

NYC Audubon Society Changing Group's Name Due to Namesake's Slavery Ties

The Audubon Society is named for 19th century naturalist John James Audubon, though the New York City chapter is distancing itself from that name. That’s because of his role in enslaving people.
weather 12 hours ago

NY Weather Outlook: Dreary Today Ahead of Sleet, Possible Thunderstorms Saturday

Yeah, New York City, the snow is a lost cause at this point. We’re already talking thunderstorms, alas. Ready for another mixed bag? Got you. We’ve got a dreary, mainly dry Friday on tap with highs in the mid-50s and showers possible south of the five boroughs. Then we’ve got a stormy Saturday. That system gets going early, with.....
Manhattan 1 hour ago

Death of Acclaimed NYC Fashion Designer Who Dressed Gaga Ruled Homicide 8 Months Later

It was July 24, 2022. NYPD officers responding to a 911 call at a Manhattan apartment building found a 35-year-old woman unresponsive in a bedroom. She had no obvious signs of trauma. On Friday, eight months to the day she was found, police identified the woman as Kathryn Marie Gallagher, a Pennsylvania-born painter and “internationally-recog...
amtrak 14 hours ago

‘Train Daddy' Is Back on the Rails: Andy Byford Joins Amtrak

The man affectionately and lovingly known as “Train Daddy” by New York City straphangers is back working on the rails here in the U.S., though don’t expect to see much of his work in the five boroughs.
recall alert 17 hours ago

Hyundai, Kia to Recall 570,000 Vehicles, Warn Drivers of Fire Risk

Hyundai and Kia are telling owners of over 571,000 SUVs and minivans in the U.S. to park them outdoors because the tow hitch harnesses can catch fire while they are parked or being driven. The Korean automakers are recalling the vehicles. Affected Hyundais include the 2019 to 2023 Santa Fe, the 2021 to 2023 Santa Fe Hybrid, the 2022 and...
Suffolk County 10 hours ago

Norovirus Sickens Hundreds of Students at Long Island High School, Officials Believe

Hundreds of students at a Long Island have been out sick in the last week, and now health officials believe they know what it is: the very contagious norovirus, which can cause vomiting and diarrhea.
Brooklyn 15 hours ago

An NYPD Evidence Warehouse Went Up in Flames 3 Months Ago. Now We Know Why

No one purposely torched that NYPD evidence warehouse that went up in flames in Brooklyn late last year, fire officials said Thursday as they revealed the cause. An electrical blowout in a conduit leading to an exit sign sparked the three-alarm Columbia Street fire on Dec. 13, which sent huge clouds of black smoke billowing over Red Hook, fire mars...
news 19 hours ago

Young Moviegoers Are More Likely to Pay More for Good Seats in Theaters, New Survey Says

Young moviegoers don’t mind paying extra fees to see films on the big screen, if it means they get to sit in the best seats in the house, a new survey says.
broadband Mar 23

NYC Expands ‘Big Apple Connect' to Deliver Free Internet, Cable to 300K+ New Yorkers

New York City is expanding by nearly 50 percent “Big Apple Connect” — the nation’s largest municipal broadband program which provides free internet and basic cable television service to hundreds of NYCHA developments. ‘Big Apple Connect’ provides NYCHA residents a free bundle that consists of in-home, high-speed internet con...
DEA 16 hours ago

‘Deadliest Drug Threat Made Deadlier:' DEA Issues Health Alert Over Flesh-Eating Mix

Even as law enforcement in New Jersey tries to wrap a criminal investigation into fentanyl overdoses of five women, one of whom died, at an upscale mall, federal drug authorities are warning of even more dangerous substances. Fentanyl, which is what the women in the Shops at Riverside mall case ingested last week, can be used to lace drugs like&#82...
holocaust 13 hours ago

Holocaust Survivor Shares on TikTok to Educate Young People

Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman is a TikTok star at age 85, thanks to her 17-year-old grandson. In the family living room in Morristown, New Jersey, Aron Goodman records his grandmother talking about her life in 1944 and 1945 as a 6-year-old child at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. They say they clips have garnered 75 million vie...

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