MTA offers free OMNY cards to help riders ditch MetroCards before year’s end
The MTA is giving away free OMNY cards at 16 customer service centers to encourage New Yorkers to switch from MetroCards before they’re phased out. The first 400 riders to transfer balances will save up to $5 ahead of January’s fare hikes.
7 On Your Side: Street vendors fight to keep their coffee cart’s spot
Two brothers sold coffee from a cart on the same block for 30 years -- until a flower planter displaced them. 7 On Your Side helped them out.
Man accused of abandoning stolen vehicle at Mount Olive gas station, police say
MOUNT OLIVE TOWNSHIP, N.J. (Morris County) — A North Bergen man arrested earlier in the day in connection with a theft at a Flanders bagel shop is now facing additional charges after police say he was found in possession of a stolen vehicle and a stolen laptop. Police said...
New York’s mayor-elect Mamdani says city’s police commissioner will continue in post
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday that the city’s current police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, has agreed to remain in the post, a major coup for the incoming mayor as he moves to assuage concerns over his past criticisms of the New York Police Department. In a statement,...
Neo-Nazi leader pleads guilty in NYC to plotting to give poisoned candy to Jewish...
Prosecutors said he was the leader of an international extremist group called the Maniac Murder Cult that used Telegram to communicate.
Hochul: N.Y. task force created to crack down on retail theft has recovered more...
More than $2.6 million in stolen goods in New York has been recovered by the State Police Organized Retail Theft Task Force since it launched a year and a half ago with the goal to crack down on retail theft, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office announced Wednesday. Since April 2024,...
14-year-old boy missing from his Bronx NYCHA home for 2 weeks, police say
The John Adams Houses in the Bronx The teen left his apartment building at the John Adams Houses on Nov. 4. [ more › ]
Substance Abuse Counselor Convicted of Killing Four People, Injuring More While Driving Intoxicated
Drunk driver Daniel Hyden — a substance abuse counselor, who wrote a book titled The Sober Addict — was convicted of killing four people and injuring several others in New York City, officials say. Prosecutors charged Hyden, 46, was boozed up behind the wheel when his speeding pickup truck crashed through a chain...
NYC workers fired over COVID vaccine mandate say they would consider coming back
A staff worker talks with a woman outside a mobile vaccine clinic in New York, the United States, Dec. 7, 2021. Nearly 2,000 city workers who were either fired or left their jobs over the 2021 mandate could get their jobs back after the Adams administration announced a tentative plan to reinstate them. [ more › ]
Seniors shoved to ground, punched in face in NYC attacks
Police are searching for two female suspects in separate attacks in Manhattan and Brooklyn this month, including one in which a woman was shoved to the ground and another in which a man was punched in the face on a city bus.
