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Central Park is taking center stage, as the Broadway Show League celebrates its 70th opening day. With 20 teams from in and around the Broadway world, taking to the softball field from “Hamilton” to “The Lion King” to “Moulin Rouge.” A lineup of players from onstage to back-of-house all have a chance to be in the...

A heartless thief stole a woman’s cane from her in broad daylight Monday afternoon in the Bronx, according to police. The NYPD said the victim, 72, was walking in the area of Watson Avenue and Morrison Avenue around 2 p.m., when a man came up, took her cane right out of her hand and ran away. The woman was not…

Cornell University has canceled a performance by R&B star Kehlani after complaints to the Ivy League school’s president that she expressed antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiments. Kehlani was scheduled to perform next month as the headliner at an annual celebration at the upstate New York school called Slope Day. But President Mi...

The Bronx DA has agreed to postpone Andre Brown’s surrender while it reviews a defense motion requesting re-sentencing.

Americans’ trust in President Donald Trump to bolster the U.S. economy appears to be faltering, with a new poll showing that many people fear the country is being steered into a recession and that the president’s broad and haphazardly enforced tariffs will cause prices to rise. Roughly half of U.S. adults say that Trump’s trade policies will increa...

A federal judge in California on Thursday barred the Trump administration from denying or conditioning the use of federal funds to “sanctuary” jurisdictions, saying that portions of President Donald Trump’s executive orders were unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge William Orrick issued the injunction sought by San Francisco and more than a ...

NY State Attorney General Letitia James has hired defense attorney Abbe Lowell to represent her amid mortgage fraud allegations regarding her Brooklyn and Virginia properties – allegations that were referred to the Justice Department for criminal review. James helped her niece buy a house in Virginia back in 2023 by becoming a co-borrower on the mo...

With the Transportation Security Administration’s deadline for full REAL ID enforcement less than two weeks away, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission is offering limited, emergency appointments for residents with specific needs to travel. The emergency appointments are for residents who have plans to travel on a domestic flight within two...

A fast-moving wildfire engulfing part of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens was expected to grow Thursday, with smoke affecting the air quality in the New York City area before rain arrives this week, authorities said. Higher-than-normal pollution levels were expected Thursday in New York City, Rockland and Westchester counties, and in Long Island’s N...

Plans were discussed in a meeting Tuesday night in Brooklyn, where participants wore masks and only identified themselves by their Signal handles.

Harvey Weinstein ’s #MeToo retrial opened Wednesday, giving a new jury a fresh look at familiar rape and sexual assault allegations — plus a newly added claim from a former model. For the first time, prosecutors publicly identified Kaja Sokola and detailed her account of what unfolded between her and the Oscar-winning movie producer in the early 20...

Fleet Week New York has announced the schedule of ships arriving in the New York Harbor next month. The celebration of the armed forces will take place May 21-27 and include two U.S. Navy ships, two Coast Guard Cutters and five U.S. Navy Academy Yard Patrol boats, according to an announcement. This year’s theme is “Honoring the Past, Defendin...

New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson won the 2024-25 Clutch Player of the Year award, the league announced Wednesday.