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Honeymoon over. The first half of September has been dry. Only one day has produced measurable rainfall in Central Park, totaling less than a quarter inch so far for the month. But this sunny and dry streak will come to an end, thanks to a low-pressure system off the coast of South Carolina. Thankfully, the week does not start on…

An 11-year-old boy is dead after subway surfing in Brooklyn, authorities say. Authorities responding to a call near the 4th Avenue and 9th Street F/G station in Park Slope around 10:15 a.m. found the boy dead at the scene. It wasn’t immediately clear how he fell. His identity wasn’t clear. Train service was severely impacted in the area...

Former President Donald Trump will be holding a campaign rally in Nassau County on Wednesday, the Trump-Vance campaign announced. The event will be held at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale at 7 p.m. The campaign is making general admission tickets available to the public, with doors opening at 3 p.m. The rally will come just over ...

Law enforcement officials released enhanced images Monday as they seek to identify one of the as yet unknown victims whose remains were found along a coastal highway in New York’s Long Island more than a decade ago, a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings. Suffolk County officials shared forensic reconstruction images as well as ...

Two former FDNY chiefs have been indicted on bribery, corruption and false statement offenses for allegedly conspiring to solicit and accept tens of thousands of dollars in bribe payments for giving preferential treatment to certain people and companies with safety inspection matters pending, federal prosecutors announced Monday. Anthony Saccavino,...

Jacoby Brissett and Aaron Rodgers will lead the Patriots and Jets into an AFC East battle on Thursday Night Football. Here’s how to watch the Week 3 game.

The trip to New York across the George Washington Bridge could be slower than usual during the Monday morning commute. As of 10:10 a.m., the Port Authority was reporting a delay of 60 minutes on the upper level to New York after a crash on the Cross Bronx Expressway. Drivers going across the GWB were being urged to use the…

Some public figures are honored with namesake buildings or monuments. Veteran broadcaster Connie Chung has a strain of marijuana and hundreds of Asian American women as legacies. Chung was contacted five years ago by a fellow journalist, Connie Wang, whose Chinese immigrant parents gave her the chance as a preschooler to pick an Americanized first ...

Four people were injured Sunday afternoon at a Brooklyn subway stop in what started as officers’ attempts to apprehend a man accused of skipping the station turnstile.

Is Colin Jost having cold feet? The “Saturday Night Live” star got candid about his headline-making buy with former co-star Pete Davidson when the duo purchased a decommissioned ferry two years ago. The comedians bought the former Staten Island ferry at auction in Jan. 2022 with plans of converting it into a floating bar and restaurant....

A 13-year-old boy was hospitalized Sunday morning after a driver allegedly struck the kid in a Queens neighborhood. Police and fire officials said the teen was hit around 10:30 a.m. in Jamaica, Queens, by the driver of a grey SUV who did not stick around at the scene. Medics treated the boy and transported him to Long Island Jewish Medical…...

More than 70 movies will screen at this year’s New York Film Festival, but there is one in particular that has the film community absolutely buzzing. “The Brutalist” is a 3 1/2-hour epic (which includes a 15-minute intermission) follows a Hungarian Jewish architect and World War II survivor, played by Adrien Brody, who flees to th...

A Long Island man was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for a 2021 wrong-way Brooklyn crash while high on PCP and marijuana that left a woman a quadriplegic, the local district attorney announced Thursday. Virgilio Rodriguez, 51 and of Rockville Center, was sentenced to 7 ½ to 15 years in prison after being convicted last month of…...