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Authorities are looking for a man who shoved a 62-year-old woman to the train tracks in Brooklyn when she ignored his request for a lighter early Thursday, officials say. According to investigators, the woman was waiting on a northbound platform for the L train at the Jefferson Avenue station in Bushwick shortly before 6 a.m. when a stranger walked...

Officers stopped a man for drinking from an open container in the Bronx only to later find out that he was wanted for the murder of a homeless man over the summer, police said.

The Brooklyn facility has been described as “hell on earth” and an “ongoing tragedy.” In recent years, its conditions have been so poor that some judges have refused to send people there.

The MTA unveiled a $68.4B capital plan today — telling New Yorkers the nation’s largest mass transit system needs the funds to upgrade crumbling structures — but also, to modernize by purchasing new trains and buses. “How do you fund all of this?,” posed MTA Chairman Janno Lieber. “How do you not!” he answered rhetorically. If various government en...

Voters in northern New Jersey are set to settle a special U.S. House election to fill the seat that opened when Rep. Donald Payne Jr. died earlier this year. Democratic Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver and Republican Carmen Bucco are competing for the seat in the heavily Democratic and majority-Black 10th Congressional District. Democr...

Months after allegations of child abuse against Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small and his wife, La’Quetta Small, came to light, the couple was indicted on a child endangerment charge.

Without saying a single word, Zayn announced his first solo tour. The British singer is making a stop at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom on Nov. 2. Zayn Malik surprised fans on Tuesday during Jimmy Fallon’s monologue on the “Tonight Show,” walking on set and playing “Stardust,” a track on his latest album on...

Harvey Weinstein is expected to be arraigned Wednesday in Manhattan on a new indictment charging him with up to three additional sex offenses, his lawyer said.

Nearly 20 people were arrested in a protest that spawned at a Brooklyn subway station where four people were shot, including two bystanders, when NYPD officers opened fire during a confrontation with an alleged fare-beater over the weekend, authorities said Wednesday. All but one of the 18 cuffed were given summonses and released. One person remain...

A bus transporting Greenwich freshman football players home from a game went the wrong way on Interstate 95 Monday night. The school district said it happened in the Norwalk area on I-95. The bus driver needed to re-enter the highway because of heavy traffic and detours, but did so in the wrong direction. Officials described the incident as disturb...

Thousands of people converged on Long Island Wednesday afternoon for former President Donald Trump’s rally at the Nassau Coliseum, his first large-scale event following a second apparent attempt on his life over the weekend. There was a brief scare earlier in the day, as Nassau County police said a person who may have been training a bomb det...

A New Jersey man, who worked as a costumed character at Six Flags Great Adventure, Sesame Place and other Philadelphia-area attractions, has been charged with sending sexually-explicit messages and images to a preteen girl.

A New York man was charged with murder three years after his teenage sister was smothered to death inside the family’s home in New York, according to prosecutors.