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Punitive damages in the discrimination case of retired Union City Police Officer Juan Estrella will now be decided at the end of the year after being scheduled for this month. Last month, a Hudson County jury found that the city and Union City PD discriminated against Estrella, agreeing with the allegation that he was not promoted to sergeant simply because he is Dominican by a vote of 7-1, as HCV first reported.

A second cocktail in New York can feel like a major financial decision. But a new report suggests your bar tab could drop considerably if you simply switch neighborhoods. Bayside, Queens, has the city's lowest median cocktail price at $12, according to the fall 2026 5PM Barometer report. Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn and Throggs Neck in the Bronx follow at $12.50. The report comes from happy hour guide 5PM NYC, which compiled more than 109,000 listed drink prices from 2,254 bar and restaurant menu

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is directing $4.8 million in previously budgeted city funds to expand gun violence prevention work in Bushwick, Harlem, and Washington Heights/Inwood, adding 42 new outreach positions to neighborhoods where community groups have long worked to keep disputes from turning deadly. The announcement, expected Tuesday, will route $1.6 million to each of the three areas for fiscal year 2027, funding 30 new credible messengers along with program managers, administrative staff, commu

Dr. Mehmet Oz personally confronted staff at two Queens senior care centers over suspicious Medicaid billing, wheelchair charges and attendance records.

A man was found with a gunshot wound to the body on the George Washington Bridge Tuesday night, according to police sources. The incident took place around 7 p.m. on the upper level of the bridge. The victim, believed to be an off-duty Con Edison worker, was rushed to Englewood Hospital where he was pronounced dead, sources tell News 4.

NORTH BERGEN, N.J. (PIX11) — A day after a minor was seen on video appearing to be interrogated by masked ICE agents near a local high school, the Department of Homeland Security responded to PIX11 about the incident. A DHS spokesperson vehemently denied that the person being questioned was a student and claimed he was […]

COSTCO shoppers looking to fill up their tanks with the brand’s cheap fuel will need to go elsewhere with the retailer’s latest update. One of its busiest locations in the US has been shuttered, forcing drivers to head elsewhere in a city infamous for its traffic jams. Staten...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Ambulance response times are up nearly four minutes from 2015, a new report from Comptroller Mark Levine found. The report released Friday found that average response times have increased three minutes and 50 seconds for life-threatening medical emergencies and 14:49 for non-life-threatening emergencies since 2015.

Two U.S. Postal Service workers are accused of stealing nearly $15,000 in checks from mail they were assigned to deliver in Brooklyn, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. Prosecutors allege that Nicole Bernard and Kenisha Hazzard took checks from residents along their mail delivery routes in East New York and deposited them into their ... Read more

Two NYPD officers reunited with a good Samaritan who helped them pull a driver from a burning vehicle on the Henry Hudson Parkway on Oct. 6.