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A large sinkhole stemming from a water main break in New Jersey partially swallowed an SUV on Friday morning leading to a rescue, according to local officials. A water main in Wayne, owned by the local water commission, broke Thursday night, which opened up a sinkhole on Demarest Drive just off West Belt Highway. Two vehicles ended up driving throu...

An MTA transit bus was seen dramatically dangling over a roadway in the Bronx Friday morning after crashing through a wall. No one was injured in the crash, which happened around 8:45 a.m. at the Henry Hudson Parkway West Service Road above Kappock Street in Spuyten Duyvil. Firefighters could be seen stabilizing the BxM1 express bus and slowly brin...

The tri-state can expect more moderate temperatures Friday and Saturday ahead of snow Sunday evening and a bone-chilling start to next week. We can expect mostly sunny skies on Friday with temperatures finally breaking the freezing mark. Highs will be near 40 degrees, which is much closer to the mid-January average than we have been seeing. Saturda...

For the second year in a row, Zillow — a real estate website — predicts that a specific city in New York will be the most competitive for buyers in the coming year in the United States. Buffalo is predicted by Zillow to have the hottest housing market in the United States.It has topped the list thanks to having the…

Miami police have identified the man accused of killing two homeless people and injuring two others in an unprovoked attack. Brenton Clarke, 36, of Inwood, New York, was arrested shortly after the Thursday morning attack, officials said. He has no arrest history in Miami but does have an arrest history for minor offenses in New York, Miam...

Inflation rates have had a huge impact on almost all aspects of our daily lives — from mortgage rates to the price of groceries. While the U.S. inflation rate has hit a 40-year high after the pandemic, according to a 2022 Pew Research Center study, it has cooled down thanks in part to the Federal Reserve rate hikes. However, inflation…...

New York City has shuttered a sprawling tent complex that housed hundreds of migrant families on a remote former airport in Brooklyn, as it shrinks the emergency shelter system built up in response to a surge from the southern border that has been steadily receding in recent months. The last of the roughly 2,000 people living on...

Even though Mayor Eric Adams announced during his State of the City address that the city will invest $650 million to tackle homelessness, more details were revealed on the city’s historic investment. On Wednesday, Adams said his administration will start a new program called “Bridge to Home.” This program is in collaboration with...

The timeless Times Square treasure made its final descent Wednesday, coming down from its perch on a pole atop 1 Times Square after delighting millions in person and watching on TV for almost 20 years. But it won’t be going away entirely.

Rudy Giuliani has settled with two Georgia elections workers in a deal they say let him keep his homes and personal belongings in return for compensation and a promise to never defame them again. The agreement announced Thursday came after the women were awarded a $148 million judgment against Giuliani. It came just as the 80-year-old former New Yo...

New York City emergency officials have issued a “Cold Weather Alert” amid a stretch of below-freezing wind chills that will only get colder into next week. The coldest air of the season so far will crash into the tri-state on starting early next week with “feels like” temperatures Tuesday dropping as low as -7 degrees. Wind ...

A fire in the garbage shoot of a Jersey City high-rise apartment building early Thursday morning led to a large response from firefighters, who were able to extinguish it without any injuries. Firefighters responded to the blaze at 280 Marin Boulevard around 3:40 a.m. and found a fire in the building’s compact room and garbage shoot going fro...

Since the 1960s, New York City’s Public Health Laboratory building has been on the front lines of the fight against disease.  The facility at 455 First Avenue in Manhattan has been home to scores of government scientists who’ve battled everything from COVID-19 to tuberculosis, HIV, and Ebola.  Now, the aging public building is on the verge of being...