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An official vehicle of the Fire Island Pines Fire Department swerved off the road and into the ocean on Saturday, where the overturned SUV was abandoned in the rough water, officials said.

New York City’s Planning Commission approved an ambitious plan on Tuesday to replace the notorious Rikers Island jail complex with four smaller lockups located in densely populated neighborhoods.

Authorities are investigating the death of a man and a woman whose bodies were found at a New Jersey motel as an apparent murder-suicide.

A grenade was found on the 10th-floor of a co-op building across the street from a police precinct in Brooklyn Monday, authorities say.

A 39-year-old woman died and two other people were hurt, one of them critically, in a high-speed Porsche chase that ended in a four-vehicle crash in New York over the weekend, authorities say.

Authorities are investigating the death of a man whose body was found face down on a park bench in a neighborhood playground in Queens early Monday.