Think Today’s Winter Is Cold? Over 140 Years Ago, the East River Froze Solid...
❄️ The Great Blizzard of 1888 brought New York City to a complete standstill, freezing ferries, trains, and even the East River itself. 🚶 With no subway and ferries iced over, New Yorkers famously walked across the frozen East River, paying a two-cent toll to a child with a ladder.
Twisted NYC mom who allegedly imprisoned starving 14-year-old twin sons for decade wanted ...
The sicko mom who allegedly kept her twin 14-year-old sons imprisoned in a Bronx house of horrors for nearly a decade wanted her kids to stay babies forever — and even kept them in diapers, feeding them with bottles, sources revealed. Lissette Soto Domenech, 64, hid her sons away from prying eyes in her Riverdale...
New York man wins $3 million with three Powerball tickets in same drawing
A Westchester County resident has claimed three separate $1 million Powerball prizes from a single drawing, bringing his total winnings to $3 million. Brian Lattimer of Yonkers matched the first five numbers in the Oct. 20, 2025, drawing across three tickets, each winning a second-prize award. The winning numbers...
Off-duty NYPD officer drives wrong way on highway, kills man, troopers say
Mount Pleasant, N.Y. — A 61-year-old Westchester County man died late Wednesday after a wrong-way driver struck his vehicle head-on on the Taconic State Parkway, according to State Police. The wrong-way driver was an off-duty New York City police officer, troopers said. Manuel Boitel, of Peekskill, was pronounced...
Mamdani drops a tax bomb that could slam the ultra rich
New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani is testing just how far a big, confident city can go in taxing its richest residents. His plan to sharply raise levies on high earners and corporations is not a tweak to the margins, it is a direct challenge to the way New York’s elite have been treated...
Zohran Mamdani says NYC kids can forget about a traditional snow day on Monday...
What a cold call! Mayor Zohran Mamdani is telling New York City kids to forget about a traditional snow day on Monday — no matter how devastating the forecast is. Public school students can at best hope for remote classes for early next week as the city braces for a potentially devastating storm that the mayor has...
NY car insurance costs too much. Here’s Hochul plan to reduce premiums
Gov. Kathy Hochul is pitching a crackdown on phony car accidents and big payouts for crash injuries that she says have inflated New York's auto insurance costs. At a stop in New York City on Thursday, Jan. 22, Hochul promoted a set of proposals in her new budget that seek to bring down premiums that now average about...
N.J. Dunkin’ reopening to feature 100 days of free coffee giveaways
A newly remodeled Dunkin’ coffee shop in North Bergen will celebrate its grand reopening on Friday with a promotional giveaway and a donation to a local foundation. The store at 4108 Tonnelle Ave. will give away 100 days of free coffee to the first 100 Dunkin’ Rewards members ages 18 and older who arrive at 9 a.m.,...
3 shot, 2 killed inside Bronx apartment building: NYPD
SPUYTEN DUYVIL, Bronx (PIX11) — Multiple individuals were shot inside an apartment in the Bronx on Thursday morning, according to the NYPD. The incident happened inside 2500 Johnson Avenue around 7:57 a.m. Two individuals, a 55-year-old man and a 59-year-old woman, were shot in the head, police say. They...
D.A. Bragg announces guilty plea in fatal East Village stabbing spree on 14th Street
A June 2024 stabbing spree that shocked neighbors and reignited calls for a safer 14th Street/First Avenue corridor moved closer to its legal conclusion this week. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. announced yesterday that Alejandro Piedra, 31, pleaded guilty to Murder in the Second Degree, Attempted...
