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According to data posted by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), city inspectors documented twice as much rodent activity in 2022 than in 2021.

Firefighters and utility crews flooded a Bronx intersection en masse Friday amid reports of a major gas leak in the area, and several buildings were evacuated out of an abundance of caution, according to officials and Chopper 4 footage. Con Edison said the FDNY notified the utility about a strong gas smell at Park Avenue and East 189th Street aroun...

A full-size school bus somehow crashed into a house in New Jersey early Friday, slamming into it so hard that it shifted the foundation and compromised the entire structure, authorities say. The crash occurred around 9 a.m. in West Caldwell, near Terrace Place and Passaic Avenue. No kids were aboard the bus. Witnesses said the driver was led from t...

Advocates are backing a new bill in Albany that would completely revolutionize bus service in the city — by making it totally free for riders. The MTA tried that temporarily, early in the pandemic, and some other cities have done it full time.

Students researched Paul Lindner, a founder of the town of Malverne, and uncovered claims that his KKK chapter burned down a Brooklyn orphanage. So they asked the mayor to rename a street that had been named after him

The alleged suspect behind a deadly stabbing spree in December that stretched from the East Village to Harlem was indicted and faces a slew of charges, including two counts of murder.

Jurors reached a guilty verdict in the federal death penalty case of a 34-year-old man who killed eight people on a Manhattan bike path five years ago in a bid, prosecutors said, to impress a terrorist group.

A lithium-ion battery from an e-bike sparked the devastating fire at a Queens daycare center that hurt more than a dozen kids, one of them critically, officials say, marking the latest in a series of blazes linked to such units. The fire broke out in the middle of Wednesday afternoon in the basement of what appeared to be a duplex…

We asked ChatGPT to write a story about an evergreen finance topic. Nothing it produced was counterfactual, but it wouldn’t pass for real journalism either.

A house of worship in Brooklyn was the scene of an attempted kidnapping, according to police, and the person who prevented the situation from becoming far worse was the child’s mother.

Two senior women and a man got stuck in a gaping sinkhole in a Long Island front yard Thursday, authorities say. Suffolk County cops say they initially responded to a home in Huntington Station just after 6 a.m. for a report of a woman stuck in a hole in the ground. When they arrived, they found her — and two…

The drug has been around in some form or another for years as a once-weekly non-insulin injection to help adults control their blood sugar but a combination of factors now has vaulted the name Ozempic into the lexicons of people who may not even have diabetes all, especially in recent months. It’s become such a talker, in fact, that...

Locals carry a certain badge of exclusivity, especially those who call New York City home. Now, one of the five boroughs’ most iconic venues plans to reward them for their loyalty. Rockefeller Center, also home to NBCUniversal headquarters, announced Wednesday that it will offer locals exclusive access to The Rink season passes as part of a p...