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A New York pizzeria owner has turned an upsetting encounter outside his restaurant into a simple message of kindness for people struggling to afford food. Daniel Romano, owner of D’Romano’s Pizza in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx, noticed an elderly woman taking half a pizza from his restaurant’s rubbish bin. In

The NYPD has identified a person of interest in the shooting that killed a 33-year-old woman, wounded a man, and sent people running from a busy Brooklyn block this week, authorities said Tuesday. Investigators are looking into whether the woman, identified as Sofronie Hartzog, of Brooklyn, and the unidentified man...

The team behind Dame is bringing its famed fish and chips to the East Village with a new standalone concept. Chippy’s, co-owned by Patricia Howard, Ed Szymanski and partner Evan Baldwin, will open at 21 E. 7th St., between 2nd and 3rd avenues, according to business filings. The team...

Kueker died of of multiple blunt impact injuries, and his death was ruled an accident, according to People.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is spending the week on a planned family vacation in upstate New York, according to the mayor’s office. In a statement released Tuesday, City Hall said Mamdani will be away until Sunday, Aug. 23, and that First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan will lead day-to-day operations during

A 27-year-old Bayonne man has been charged more than a month after a hit-and-run left a pedestrian seriously injured in Jersey City, authorities said. Santiago Mena-Gutierrez was arrested Monday, Aug. 17, by members of the Hudson County Regional Collision Investigation Unit, Hudson County Prosecutor…

A number of Black and Latino elected officials and community leaders gathered in East Elmhurst Monday evening to rally against what they described as a surge in ICE activity in the surrounding area in recent weeks and launch a week of bilingual “Know Your Rights” pop-ups. The rally,...

Unlike so many other riders—distractedly glued to their smartphones—Zino uses the New York City subway for its intended purpose: people-watching. “He loves to watch everything,” says Perris Cavalier, the owner of the four-year-old Havanese. “He’s obsessed with people and is nosy—he always wants to see and hear what’s u

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (PIX11) — A man desperately tried to save a close family friend as she bled in his arms after a brutal attack in a Brooklyn park early Tuesday. Shakeema Davis, 30, was fatally stabbed after a fight in Lincoln Terrace Park near Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights at around 12:40 a.m., according […]

A former senior corrections officer has admitted in court that he smuggled tobacco and other contraband into a prison in exchange for bribes. Christopher Santana, 33, of Hackensack, pleaded guilty in Essex County Superior Court on Tuesday to second-degree conspiracy to commit bribery, the state Attorney General’s Offic