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The earthquake was widely felt, but no major damage was reported.

Starting Feb. 5, the New Jersey-bound tube of the Holland Tunnel will be closed off to traffic during the overnight hours. The closure, which goes from 11 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. six nights a week, will last through 2025,

A man allegedly armed with a gun and wanted in connection to a reported assault in the Bronx was shot and critically wounded by NYPD officers Sunday afternoon, top brass said. NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said a group of officers initially engaged the suspect after a woman approached the uniformed members around 2:20 p.m. reporting an attack fro...

Students at a middle school were served chicken and waffles, with watermelon as a dessert, on the first day of Black History Month.

An overnight fire sent four people to the hospital, three with critical injuries, and is the latest in the city sparked by e-bike batteries, the FDNY said. The “all-hands” fire kicked off around 1:30 a.m. Sunday on Sherman Avenue in Inwood, according to fire officials. It took roughly an hour for crews to get the fire on the fifth floor...

A teenage girl has been blamed for sparking a Bronx fire last week that claimed the life of a 27-year-old man and left another covered in serious burns. The NYPD announced Sunday the arrest of a 15-year-old for the deadly Jan. 29 Soundview arson. The suspect, not identified due to her age, faces charges of murder, assault, arson, reckless endangerm...

Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park ‘Exonerated Five,’ formally announced his run for New York City Council. News 4’s Melissa Colorado reports.

A 65-year-old man being detained at Rikers Island has died, the New York City Department of Correction said. Marvin Pines was pronounced dead around 6:15 a.m. Saturday in the North Infirmary Command, the DOC said in a press release. The man’s cause of death is under investigation and will be determined by the medical examiner. Pines was place...

Police in a New Jersey borough bordering the Hudson River shot and killed a man allegedly armed with a knife and exhibiting “threatening behavior,” its mayor said Saturday. The incident unfolded around 8 a.m. at a John Street townhouse in Fort Lee, Mayor Mark Sokolich said. Limited details are known about the man, but he may have been i...

The man police say was behind the beating of a 90-year-old Manhattan candy store legend, left bleeding on the ground outside his East Village shop he has run the last 50 years, has been arrested. Luis Peroza was arrested late Friday, days after Ray Alvarez, owner of the eponymous Ray’s Candy Store, was the victim of the 3 a.m. attack…...

A waiter at a New York restaurant was convicted of manslaughter for stabbing a co-worker with a broken bottle during an argument over $20 worth of tips, prosecutors announced Wednesday. David Jimenez Salazar, 25, was convicted by a jury on Tuesday of fatally stabbing 37-year-old busser Elvin Padilla on July 16, 2020 at the Hicksville restaurant on ...

Anyone hoping to take the 7 train in and out of Manhattan during the weekends from Feb. 4 through April 23 will need to make alternate plans, as service will be shutting down between Hudson yards and Queensboro Plaza.

A New Jersey man who exchanged sexually explicit videos and images with a 13-year-old New York girl has admitted paying $20,000 in bitcoin to have the child victim murdered before eventually calling it off.