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The case of a 71-year-old mother who died after she and her daughter were hit by a driver who ran from the crash scene in Brooklyn last week has been ruled a homicide, the NYPD says, and they’re still looking for the killer. The NYPD said the medical examiner’s office issued its determination in the death of Juanita Vidal...

Visitors and residents at the Jersey Shore have known it for generations — Lucy the Elephant is the best.
While, now everyone around the country knows that the Margate, New Jersey, attraction towers above the rest thanks to it being named the Best Roadside Attraction in the United States by USA Today.

The man identified as the suspect in an alleged sucker-punch attack on actor Steve Buscemi was last seen days ago at a shelter in Brooklyn, according to two senior city officials with knowledge of the investigation. 

A set of quintuplets from New Jersey are now all graduates of the same school in their home state, Montclair State University, albeit with different majors.

New Yorkers eat a lot of pizza. They eat so much pizza that the dish warrants its own recycling bin. Ahead of the summer season, Central Park now has a pizza box recycling bin in a busy area adjacent to the Great Lawn, The Central Park Conservancy announced. The pilot program is part of the citywide attempt to curb its…

At the start of his corruption trial in New York City, a federal jury was alternately introduced to Bob Menendez as a bribe-taking U.S. senator who betrayed his country, and as an American patriot.

The man stabbed in a Lower East Side subway station Wednesday morning was 34-year-old Anthony Chávez, who spoke to NBC New York hours after he was attacked at the Delancey Street-Essex Street station. The victim said he was sleeping in the mezzanine area just before 5:30 a.m. when it happened, and isn’t sure why he was targeted.