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Police are investigating a suspected arson hate crime after a man set fire to the outside of a popular Jewish-Japanese fusion restaurant in Brooklyn, the NYPD said. Police said the crime occurred shortly after 4 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18 when a man walked up to the restaurant and started a fire to two outside window tarps, which had the…...

A new state comptroller report finds that a police training seminar in New Jersey included instructors making lewd comments about women, encouraging officers to pull people over for no reason and showing a photo of an ape after talking about pulling over a 75-year-old Black man.

NJ Transit is banning beverages — all of them, even water — throughout its system the next two Saturdays ahead of respective SantaCons in New York City and Hoboken. That means no beverages of any kind, in any type of container, open or closed, will be permitted on trains, buses or light rail vehicles on Dec. 9 and Dec. 16…....

A disgraced former NYPD officer pleaded guilty to providing confidential law enforcement information to her boyfriend, who was the head of a deadly gang in the Bronx, prosecutors said.

Suozzi left Congress last year to run for governor, losing to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in the primary.

A 3-year-old boy was struck and killed along a street in Queens, and police are searching for the hit-and-run driver responsible.

From the Fifth Ave. window displays to Dyker Heights lights, New York City celebrates the season in style, but one pop-up is returning to add some “chutzpah” to the mix with a location decked out for Hanukkah. The Maccabee Bar is nestled in the West Village and was founded by Naomi Levy, a now Boston-based entrepreneur who loves ringing...

Max Adler opened OutBox Gym, a boxing and fitness club in Brooklyn that centers on queer and trans clients, in 2021 after a short career as an amateur boxer.

The killing of a Connecticut nurse making a house call in Willimantic in October was a nightmare come true for an industry gripped by the fear of violence. Already stressed out by staffing shortages and mounting caseloads, heath care workers are increasingly worrying about the possibility of a patient becoming violent – a scenario that is too commo...

We’ve got a powerful storm brewing in the New York City forecast this weekend, though this system won’t bring snow. Temperatures return to average Friday, climbing to near 50 degrees under partly sunny skies after a chilly Thursday featured light snowfall across parts of the metropolitan area. Winds are light, too. The warming trend con...

Former President Donald Trump has returned to his New York civil business fraud trial, renewing his complaints that it is an injustice. Trump showed up Thursday to watch an accounting professor discuss financial topics important to the case. The witness for Trump’s defense, professor Eli Bartov, said he had reviewed the financial statements a...

One Times Square, the building that hosts the New Year’s Eve ball drop every Dec. 31, is celebrating it topping out on Thursday. The building recently went through a $500 million redevelopment. Shortly after New Year’s Day this year, the iconic 2023 numbers were removed to make way for the building’s construction. Lisa Serbaniewic...

A deputy U.S. Marshal traveling to London to help extradite a criminal defendant has been taken into custody by British authorities after he was accused of sexually abusing a female passenger on board a Delta flight, four law enforcement officials said.