Wildfire Smoke Is Back: A New Yorker’s Guide to Staying Safe
With smoke traveling in from wildfires burning in Minnesota and Ontario, New York is due for a week of hazy skies and possibly poorer air quality. When smoke from Canadian wildfires engulfed the city in June 2023, the boroughs turned suddenly orange, with air quality indices reaching 484 — the highest ever recorded. It
Man shoved into a moving subway train in NYC: NYPD
BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) — The NYPD is searching for a suspect after a 47-year-old man was injured inside a subway station in the Bronx on June 27. The incident happened at the Fordham Road/Grand Concourse station at around 2:20 p.m. Police say the victim was on the southbound D platform when an unidentified man shoved […]
Mamdani Faces NYC Rent Pressure as Manhattan and Brooklyn Hit Record Highs
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing a sharper housing-policy test after new rental data showed market rents hitting record highs in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Man killed after contact with railroad catenary wire
A man was killed after coming in contact with a wire used to power trains in Newark. A New Jersey Transit spokesperson told News 12 that the adult male trespasser was found unresponsive on the railroad tracks at the Bathgate Place and 7th Avenue bridge crossing in Newark at about 2:25 a.m. Tuesday.
Reading Home Invasion Leaves One Dead, Suspect Arrested
A 43-year-old man is in custody after an early-morning home invasion in Reading left one man dead and another seriously wounded. The shooting unfolded inside a residence on the 500 block of Lancaster Avenue and drew a multi-agency response. Investigators say the suspect fled Pennsylvania and was tracked down across sta
Drug dealer threatens man with butcher knife on Brooklyn subway: NYPD
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — A drug dealer threatened a subway rider with a butcher knife when he refused to buy weed off him aboard a Brooklyn train Tuesday morning, police said. The suspect tried to sell a 31-year-old man marijuana on the southbound N train in the 86th Street subway station just after 7 a.m., […]
Vagrants wire NYC’s growing Intrepid Museum homeless camp with electricity, forcing cops to step...
Now they got juice. A shameless vagrant at the putrid homeless encampment that has sprouted up along a wide stretch of Manhattan’s West Side tapped into city utility lines for electricity on Tuesday, as the unsightly shantytown continues to flaunt City Hall. The brazen utility theft at a makeshift red shelter at 34th S
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Announces Plan to Launch Investigation Into Security Breach at Jay-Z’s...
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 3: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers a speech to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States of America at City Hall on July 3, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Anna Connors - Pool/Getty Images) An investigation has been launched after the debacle that occurred at Jay-Z’s extra
Michael Goodwin: Mamdani’s socialist policies give nothing but a cold shoulder. Look no further...
In the most memorable and troubling line of his inaugural address, Mayor Mamdani vowed to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” But as temperatures approach 100 degrees, most New Yorkers would surely welcome some “frigidity” of any kind. They are out of luck, because even the
Buzzy Southern chicken chain Zaxbys making New York debut in Bronx, UES
The location where Zaxbys plans its first Manhattan restaurant is shown along First Avenue near 68th Street. The chain, which has about 1,000 locations in 22 states, said the new restaurants at 3260 Boston Road in the Bronx and at 1267 First Ave. on the Upper East Side are part of a big expansion drive in the Northeas

















