Newsletter Category: Top News

Parents often say they’d do anything for their children, even take a bullet. Few ever have to face such danger, but when bullets started flying inside a car dealership in the Bronx Monday night, one father did exactly that

Being open since 1829, Neir’s Tavern in Queens has seen quite a lot. But now as it continues to weather the burden that COVID-19 has placed on restaurants and bars, it has a new fight to deal with

The NYPD said that a mother who disappeared from her Brooklyn home, along with her three young children, has been found safe. Crystal Johnson was reported missing on Friday, after being seen with her children at their home on Van Siclen Avenue in East New York, police said. Her children — two sons Devine, 6, and Sincere, 5, and their…

A screaming, unmasked heckler interrupted the start — and later additional parts — of a briefing by health officials in Brooklyn Friday as they provided an update on emerging COVID clusters there and in Queens that have become so severe they may prompt the first new shutdowns in New York City in months. The heckler identified himself as...

New York’s attorney general is recommending the New York Police Department get out of the business of routine traffic enforcement

The city’s implementation of the Open Streets and Open Restaurants initiatives during the course of the ongoing pandemic was so successful, it plans to make them permanent, year-round programs, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday. The Open Restaurants program, which rolled out this summer, expands seating options for restaurants on select r...

Three young people died early Friday morning in a single-vehicle crash on the Cross County Parkway, local authorities said. A 16-year-old girl and two men, ages 22 and 24, died after their vehicle crashed in the center lane of the Cross County Parkway around 2:30 a.m., Westchester County Police said in a statement. Officials believe all three victi...

Federal investigators filed a complaint last week alleging two men intended to attack locations around the country, including the New York Stock Exchange and Trump Tower in Manhattan, on behalf of ISIS. The FBI identified Jaylyn Molina and Kristopher Matthews, from Texas and South Carolina respectively, face charges of conspiracy to provide materia...

A New Hampshire man who suffered serious spinal injuries when a stage diver landed on his head during a concert in New Jersey has reached a $2 million settlement with the show’s organizer. Jason Kooken, 46, of Exeter, was injured at an April 2017 punk music festival staged at Convention Hall in Asbury Park. His lawsuit claimed that security working...

To date, more than 715,000 people in the tri-state area — the lion’s share in New York City — have tested positive for the potentially deadly novel coronavirus that began spreading at the end of last year in China. Thousands of deaths have been reported in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. While states won’t give out medical or pers...

More than 715,000 tri-state residents have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. New York’s first positive case was announced on Sunday, March 1; the state’s first death was announced nearly two weeks later, on March 14. New York City accounts for the vast majority of cases and deaths in the state. The numbers — and fatalitie...

The tri-state area has plowed forward with its reopening process after a months-long shutdown. While the region is far from a return to pre-pandemic times, increasing steps are being taken to safely return to a new sense of normal. New York, New Jersey and Connecticut all have slightly different strategies, but all focus on a singular objective: Pr...

The suspect, who was charged with two hate crimes, was seen on video walking along a street when she allegedly hurled racial slurs at a Black female jogger before throwing a glass bottle at her