Former Brooklyn assemblyman urges Mamdani to address displacement of Black residents
The city has lost nearly 200,000 Black residents from 2020 compared to 2000, according to the latest census data. Officials say it’s another result of the city’s growing affordability crisis, an issue Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has promised to tackle. The Coalition for a Democratic and Just New York...
UWS residents displaced by apartment building fire holding on to hope
Dozens of families are coping with losing everything after last week's fire that tore through a six-story apartment building on the Upper West Side.
Suspect wanted for assaulting elderly cab driver as he drove through Ravenswood: NYPD
Police from the 114th Precinct are looking for a suspect who assaulted an elderly taxicab driver in the Ravenswood section of Long Island City on the night of Tuesday, Dec. 9. Police say the 72- year-old victim was approaching 10th Street and 36th Avenue just after 6:45 p.m. when his passenger became unruly and began...
Eric Adams spends final weeks in office globetrotting
New York Mayor Eric Adams has racked up air mileage during his final weeks in office as socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani waits to take his spot. Adams will take his fourth international trip since October to Mexico City soon. The mayor has been a frequent traveler since taking office. His dropped corruption case...
Woman, 72, found dead near New York Botanical Garden
THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) — A 72-year-old woman was found dead outside the New York Botanical Garden on Tuesday morning, police said. Authorities found the woman unconscious on the sidewalk near the New York Botanical Garden at 2900 Southern Blvd. at around 6:49 a.m., according to the NYPD. She was pronounced dead at...
NYC Council pols bashed for trying to sneak in 16% raises for themselves before...
They got a rise out of their raise. Good government watchdogs raked City Council members over the coals during a hearing Tuesday for trying to sneak in an 11th-hour raise for themselves. The self-serving proposed 16% pay bump shamelessly skirts the City Charter’s ban from raising pay while in the lame duck period,...
Nick Reiner charged with 2 counts of first degree murder
Nick Reiner, son of Rob and Michele Singer Reiner, was charged with two counts of first degree murder. FOX 5 NY's Antwan Lewis has the latest.
East New York man found dead in apartment ruled a homicide
The man has been identified as 51-year-old Justin Tetro, who lived at 21 Pennsylvania Ave. in East New York, according to police.
NY Health Department cites 1,400 flu hospitalizations this week, up 75% since last week
New numbers from the New York State Department of Health cited nearly 1,400 flu hospitalizations statewide this week.
Pope Leo XIV eyes Illinois bishop to lead New York Archdiocese
Pope Leo XIV is expected to appoint a bishop from his native Illinois to replace the retiring Cardinal Timothy Dolan as archbishop of New York, according to Catholic media reports.
