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The Bank of America VP killed in the Times Square stabbing had just returned from maternity leave. A GoFundMe for her baby nears $1 million.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — The driver in a tour bus crash that killed five people and injured dozens was sentenced Wednesday to six months in jail, five years of shock probation and 12 weeks of community service. Bin Shao was sentenced after pleading guilty to five counts of criminally negligent homicide, admitting that

A 27-year-old woman was killed when a Tesla she was in crashed into scaffolding in Midtown Manhattan early Wednesday, with the injured female driver taken into police custody at a nearby hospital, police said. The 2024 Tesla hit a mailbox at around 2:43 a.m. before striking scaffolding outside 315 Madison Ave. just bef

Is Sept. 11 a federal holiday? The country is nearing the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks . The attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, forever changed the lives of New Yorkers and people across the country after four commercial airplanes were hijacked and used in attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon a

In the popular history told about 9/11, one group of New York civil servants is often overlooked. The Department of Sanitation (DSNY) has lost over 145 members to 9/11-related illness. DSNY played a major role in the cleanup and recovery in the aftermath of the attacks in New York. DSNY...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is abusing the apparatus of city government to crush landlords and seize their property, violating state law, the US Constitution and fundamental fairness. If you’re not a landlord, you may think this doesn’t affect you — but think again. Landlords are just the first: Anyone who owns anything is in

An air-conditioning tower at a Queens police precinct tested positive for a trace amount of bacteria that causes the potentially deadly Legionnaires’ disease, city health officials said Tuesday. Testing at the 112th Precinct station house along a busy Forest Hills street found a low exposure level of Legionella bacteri

On September 11, 2001 , New York City firefighter Sal Argano benefited from a stroke of luck. Rather than working at his regular station—a small Manhattan firehouse situated directly across an intersection from the Twin Towers —he was on temporary loan to another unit in Brooklyn when hijacked planes struck the World T

An elderly man was fatally thrown off his e-scooter in a head-on collision with a bicyclist outside a Hilton hotel in Downtown Brooklyn on Monday, police said. Thomas Bakas, 77, was riding his stand-up electric scooter in the bike lane on Schermerhorn Street near its intersection with Smith Street around 2:20 p.m. when

Another longtime Upper West Side watering hole is on its way out. The bar, which has been pouring drinks on Amsterdam Avenue for 32 years, announced this week that it’s lost its lease and will be closing next month. Its space has already hit the market, and the listing gives a pretty clear picture of what the landlord’