Flatiron District

NYC’s flagship Harry Potter store — the first of its kind — opened Thursday, with throngs of crowds eager to get into the new Flatiron District attraction — so many that the store had to start turning people away at one point

Listen up, Muggles — grab your wands, don your robes and get yourself a butter beer at the Harry Potter flagship store in Flatiron, which opened on Thursday. Lines to get in stretched around the block, as fans lined up to see what was inside. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

An 18-year-old Queens man has been arrested on an assault charge for allegedly driving into two bicycling protesters in the Flatiron District over the weekend and fleeing the scene, police said Tuesday. Cops responded to a 911 call about two hurt cyclists near 25th Street and Fifth Avenue shortly after 7:15 p.m. Saturday. They found a 19-year-old woman with arm…

Police say an SUV hit two protesters in the Flatiron District on Saturday.

The NYPD is looking for the driver who ran down two protesters Saturday night in the Flatiron District.

New York City police say they have the suspects in custody responsible for two separate shootings that occurred hours apart in Manhattan last week. In the shootings, a 19-year-old woman was killed and a 7-year-old girl, as well as a 19-year-old man, were wounded. Three other people were also shot overnight in the Bronx, part of total victims in a…

In two separate shootings that happened hours apart in Manhattan, a 19-year-old woman was killed and a 7-year-old girl, as well as a 19-year-old man, were wounded. Three other people were also shot overnight in the Bronx, part of total victims in a 24-hour span. Police say the deadly shooting of 19-year-old Erica Lopez occurred along Fifth Avenue near 27th…

The homicide count this year compared to last has spiked greatly and is a big concern for authorities across the boroughs, Marc Santia reports.

In two separate shootings that happened hours apart in Manhattan, a 19-year-old woman was killed and a 7-year-old girl, as well as a 19-year-old man, were wounded. Katherine Creag reports.

In two separate shootings that happened hours apart in Manhattan, a 19-year-old was killed and a 7-year-old girl, as well as a 19-year-old man, were injured. NBC New York’s Katherine Creag reports.

Shots were fired after a group of teens started fighting on the corner of East 102nd Street in East Harlem on Thursday, police say. A 7-year-old girl was hit in the thigh and a 19-year-old was hit in his leg.

While friends of a bicyclist struck and killed by a truck Monday morning gathered in the Flatiron District, a group of angry riders rode the streets of Manhattan blocking traffic — and attacked a man and a passenger in a car, one driver claims

Netflix will expand its operations in New York City, adding 127 jobs in its Manhattan marketing and development office and building six sounds stages in Brooklyn where thousands of productions jobs will be located, New York officials announced Thursday.

No news is too small for the Holt family. When they get a whiff of activity, Lester Holt and his son Stefan Holt leap into action.

Electric utility Con Edison is working to figure out what caused a high-voltage equipment failure that unleashed an otherworldly flash of bright blue light in the night sky over New York City Thursday, startling residents, plunging LaGuardia Airport into total darkness and inciting chatter about alien invasions.

Two buildings remain closed a week and a half after a massive steam pipe explosion in the Flatiron District, officials said.

The “hot zone” around the massive steam pipe explosion in the Flatiron District of Manhattan last week is shrinking as officials deem certain buildings and streets safe to reoccupy after assessing for asbestos.

Some residents in Manhattan where a steam pipe exploded several days ago can now return home.

Forty-four of the nearly 50 buildings evacuated after an asbestos-lined, 86-year-old steam pipe exploded in the heart of the Flatiron District Thursday remain off limits as officials thoroughly assess the potential presence of asbestos.

The Flatiron steam pipe explosion that sent debris and absestos spewing from the ground has officials taking no chances.