Park rangers are searching for a duck in distress in Central Park. “We’ve been out with binoculars — rangers all over Central Park and Morningside Park, in bodies of water — and we haven’t been able to find her,” Urban Park Ranger Jill Lim said. The duck is a common merganser and, if one looks closely at the photos Brad…

A rare duck spotted in Central Park doesn’t have bird enthusiasts excited — it has them concerned, There appears to be a piece of plastic stuck around the bird’s beak NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

The woman said she was reaching inside the clothing donation bin when someone pushed her in, but police said her story may not be so likely

A woman somehow got her head wedged in the subway doors at the last stop in the Bronx earlier this week — and once the video was posted on Instagram, it went viral as outraged New Yorkers blasted people who didn’t stop to help.

A skunk brewed up some trouble when it got its head stuck in a beer can, according to animal control officers in Billerica, Massachusetts. The skunk was picked up Thursday by animal control officers on Lucille Drive and taken to Tufts Wildlife Center where it had to be sedated in order to have the can removed from its head. A...

The city buildings department has determined what caused an elevator inside an Upper East Side luxury townhouse to get stuck last week, trapping a housekeeper inside for three days.

The New York City buildings department has determined what caused an elevator inside a luxury townhouse to fail, trapping a housekeeper for three days. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

A New York City woman sat vigil for days at her dying brother’s hospital bedside, authorized doctors to stop life support and was arranging his funeral when officials revealed it had all been a big mistake. The man wasn’t her brother at all, but a stranger with a similar name.

A woman was rescued Monday after being trapped in the elevator of a Manhattan townhouse for three days, authorities say.

A woman was trapped in a tiny elevator in a townhouse in NYC for three days. Ray Villeda reports.

An alleged mistake at a Bronx hospital has the facility facing legal action.

He just wanted to get his trolley full of beers up the subway escalator. But physics was against him.

All he wanted to do was get his beers up the escalator on a trolley. It wasn’t as easy as it seemed.

The panicked wail heard around the subway station could easily have been the rallying cry of so many New Yorkers taking the subway on any given day: “I’M GONNA BE LAAAAATE!”  Sports writer Adena Andrews captured the commuter’s startling scream while stuck at the Nostrand Avenue C train platform in Brooklyn Thursday morning. A police investigation was delaying trains...

A woman screams hysterically about being late to her internship amid subway delays at the Nostrand Avenue station in Brooklyn during the morning rush Thursday. Credit: Adena Andrews

A man stuck in stopped traffic in the Holland Tunnel decided to get out of his car and start walking, police say.

A man stuck in stopped traffic in the Holland Tunnel decided to get out of his car and start walking, police say.

She was suspended in a harness on a rope about 15 feet off the ground when she was found Saturday.

La Verne police officers found a real life Winnie the Pooh over the weekend, a little cub with its head stuck in a jug. Police found the struggling bear thrashing around clawing at its own head. The cub was even trying to use a fence to pop off the plastic jug. A police officer held the cub while a Fish...

A 30-foot-long humpback whale stuck in Southern California’s Ventura Harbor made its way out Sunday morning. The 30-foot-long whale was first spotted swimming in the harbor around 3 p.m. Saturday, said harborman George Kabris. The whale could be seen swimming into boat slips and coming right up to the edges of the docks as dozens of people watched. Kabris said...