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Because there is a different option, here are your early links: Long Islanders love shopping in Williamsburg, slushie bodega won't close aft...

The Bay Ridge library branch is seen on July 22, 2023. Nearly a dozen branches will open their doors, bringing the total number of libra...

Richard Carroll Jr. says he had no idea his Harlem apartment was rent stabilized when he moved in more than two decades ago. The ruling...

Jason Lopez sits in a common area of TownHome's crisis respite center in Brooklyn. He says the center is more peaceful than a hospital....

A walker is left at the scene of a shooting at East 110th Street and Madison Avenue in East Harlem on Aug. 27, 2025. Police say an 18-ye...

Gov. Kathy Hochul visits the Great New York State Fair. An executive order comes as access tightens and lawmakers eye state-level soluti...

A rendering of the redesigned Flatbush Avenue at Fourth Avenue. The redesign will dramatically overhaul one of the busiest and most dang...

Christopher Nieves with his mother and sister, Candice Nieves about 10 years ago Christopher Nieves, 46, was arrested Thursday for alleg...

Frankie Focus touts the benefits a distraction-free classroom, even if he is a bit distracting himself. The shaggy monster is touting Ne...

The FDA last week approved the latest round of COVID boosters, but limited access to people 65 and older or with underlying medical conditio...

MTA buses in Manhattan were the worst-performing of the five boroughs. Buses in Manhattan were the worst in the city, with 73% receiving...

Because they're in there, here are your early links: Luigi Mangione shirt model, lawsuit implicating Saudi Arabia in 9/11, sewing is cool an...

A building at the Rikers Island jail complex is seen surrounded by barbed wire on May 7, 2024. The man had an apparent seizure Wednesday...

New York students will have to stow away their smartphones starting this year. Each school is left to figure out how to implement the st...

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks at a podium in front of an American flag. James says the Brimelows used charitable funds...

Benny Polatseck/Mayoral Photography Office On Wednesday, Adams was less definitive about whether he'd stay in the race. [ more › ]

Because this was sort of a plot line on "The Sopranos," here are your afternoon links: Maximalist chicken, mini martinis, Selena Gomez is ri...

A salesperson at a vape shop in Maine exhales while using an e-cigarette on Sept. 19, 2019. A dozen distributors, including five in New...

Construction worker hammers wood on a residential construction site. Some towns could face the possibility of builders suing to force th...

Changes in how federal immunization guidelines are being rolled out have sown confusion. [ more › ]

The Allerton smoke shop outside of which police say Jamari Henry, 24, was fatally shot is seen on Sept. 2, 2025. Four others were also w...

NYPD vehicles line the perimeter of a courthouse. The deaths come as Commissioner Jessica Tisch ramps up low-level crime arrests despite...

Police investigated a stretch of Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn after six people were shot during the West Indian Day Parade. Barring a han...

“if you hear something, free something,” begins playing on the PAs of 14 subway stations Wednesday. Lifelong New Yorker Chloë Bass turns...

River Wilson was 20 months old when she drowned at a Bronx day care. River Wilson drowned in a backyard pool at a Bronx facility. [ more...