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The fire was placed under control about two hours after the initial call.

FORT GREENE, Brooklyn (PIX11) — A man was fatally shot just blocks from Commodore Barry Park in Brooklyn Sunday morning, according to police. NYPD officers responded to a 911 call just before 11 a.m. for a reported shooting inside 75 Cumberland St., just off Park Avenue in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, officials said. […]

If you drop it they will come — and that’s a problem for the NYPD. A planned Times Square ball drop to celebrate America’s 250th birthday will come without “a public event” — but critics fear it’ll become a crowd-control nightmare for New York’s Finest because revelers will show up anyway. “No effing way will the NYPD be a part of this,” one high-ranking...

A good Samaritan trying to break up three pit bulls fighting in New Jersey was mauled to death when the dogs suddenly teamed up and turned on him, authorities said. The unidentified man was walking near the Georgia King Village housing complex in Newark when he spotted the trio of angry animals locked in battle and jumped in between them to try to help...

The incident happened on Saturday, April 11, at approximately 8:10 p.m. in the area of 380 West Pleasantview Ave., when an officer on patrol saw two individuals engaged in an altercation, Police Chief Michael Antista said. A Stop & Shop loss prevention officer directed the officer’s attention to the suspect,...

Police say the man intervened after seeing the dogs fighting, then they turned their attention to him and attacked.

Getting stuck in a gridlock is a shared American ritual that nobody actually signed up for. If you are white-knuckling the steering wheel or trying...

MIDTOWN, Manhattan (PIX11) — Weeks after a massive fire forced multiple businesses to close in Brooklyn, owners are still recovering, and new emergency funding is helping them move forward.  For Aziz Musinov, March 19th changed everything. He watched his restaurant, Manti Express, go up in flames.  “We seen the whole big smoke,” said Musinov “NYPD […]

For most of the world, Christmas ends in the dead of winter. On Wall Street, it stretches into the spring, thanks to tens of billions of dollars in annual bonuses typically paid between January and April. This year, despite continuing turmoil in the private credit market, the payouts have been...

It’s finally starting to feel like spring around here, and as the trees begin to bloom, so too does the Hoboken + Jersey City news cycle (though it never really stops). This week brought a slew of…interesting… stories, like edible Hudson River fish and Hoboken’s plans for Bordie Collie goose chasers. The World Cup continues to be a production, to say the least: NY...