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Nearly two dozen of New York City’s Open Streets will now feature Open Restaurants summer weekends thanks to a new initiative announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio Thursday. “Starting this weekend 22 Open Streets will also have Open Restaurants on them,” de Blasio said during his daily press briefing. “Some of them will be exist...

An overwhelming majority of New York City parents want to send their children back to the five boroughs’ public schools in September, but a surprising number of families aren’t so eager to get back to in-person learning, according to a survey Mayor Bill de Blasio discussed at his daily COVID briefing Thursday. The city’s Departmen...

A nonprofit providing personal protective equipment for New York healthcare professionals battling COVID-19 is shifting its focus to include support for a new front line – equipping protesters during the Black Lives Matter movement. Med Supply Drive is a nonprofit organization entirely led by volunteers across the country, originally founded ...

New York and New Jersey, America’s hardest-hit states, are no longer among the few currently on track to contain COVID-19, losing ground they had just a week ago, according to Covid Act Now, which uses real-time modeling and metrics to assess the nation’s standing in the war against the novel coronavirus. Right now, the two states are c...

An image from what appeared to be Jersey Mike’s Subs was shared on Twitter stating how the company planned on supporting the Black Lives Matter movement by renaming their BLT sandwich the BLM — but it was all a gag

So-called Death Cafes are part of a broader “death-positive” movement to encourage more open discussion of grief, trauma and loss

A Westchester County police officer was charged Wednesday for using excessive force with a woman who was handcuffed last year. Prosecutors say Mount Vernon police officer Ryan Hughes pushed the woman who had just been arrested into an interview room on Aug. 24, 2019. The woman tripped “over a small garbage pail” before her body slammed ...

Two members of Congress representing New York City, Yvette Clarke and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler, have prevailed in the state’s Democratic primary

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says officers have detained a shipment of beauty supplies including weaves suspected to be made with human hair that originated in China

For the roughly 1.4 million in New Jersey seeking benefits, the extension would kick in after 26 weeks of state unemployment help, as well as 13 weeks of federal assistance

A caught-on-camera dispute between neighbors over work being done at a northern New Jersey home this week sparked a brief anti-racism protest march after video of the confrontation gained widespread attention on social media. Fareed and Norrinda Hayat, who are Black, say they were confronted by a white woman outside their Montclair home on Monday a...

Two teenagers have been charged with murder in the beating death of a homeless man whose body was found in a southern New Jersey alleyway last week, authorities said. The 17-year-old girl and 15-year-old boy were both seen on surveillance video entering the alleyway in Camden shortly before Bobby Hill Jr., 63, was killed, according to the Camden Co...

Health officials are investigating a new cluster of eight or more COVID-19 cases in Rockland County tied to a large party earlier this month, but they’re running into trouble with contact tracing because people refuse to cooperate. The county plans to resort to subpoenas, as it did during its measles outbreak some years ago, to compel people ...