Brooklyn NY

Vacant lots like this one in Harlem are not just eyesores. They're fortresses for rats. The sanitation department seeks to increase the fines for landlords who neglect their abandoned lots from $100 to $250. [ more › ]

1075 Dean Street in Crown Heights. Streetview © 2026 Google. A Brooklyn landlord will return all units in his Crown Heights apartment building to rent stabilization as part of the first settlement reached under a new state program. New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday announced that John Anderson will prov

A state grand jury has voted not to file criminal charges against a Jersey City police sergeant who fatally shot a 26-year-old Hudson County man last year. Steven Sanchez, of Jersey City, was killed during an encounter with police on Sept. 5, 2025, in which he refused to drop a weapon, which was later determined to be

In 1987, Islip, New York loaded a barge with over 3,000 tons of garbage. Mexico and six states turned it away, and it helped spark America's recycling boom.

HARLEM, N.Y. (PIX11) — Since the early 1990s, kids have brought their Halloween jack-o’-lanterns to Central Park in October to watch them float on its northernmost lake, the Harlem Meer. This year, though, the tradition has been ended by the Central Park Conservancy, and there’s no shortage of families who are disappoi

El Pollo Loco will open its first New York City restaurant next year in Queens. The majority of the chicken chain's locations are in California, although it has been expanding. El Pollo Loco's stock has climbed more than 40% over the past year. El Pollo Loco has closed three development...

Within my first few months in New York City, I knew I wanted to use a bicycle for transportation. I’d grown up riding a bike, and through much of my first 17 years, it was my primary mode of transportation on the hot country roads just outside Birmingham, Alabama.

The table gets noticeably quieter when the pork arrives. That first crackle does the talking, followed by crisp tostones and plates built for people who did not come to nibble. On the Lower East Side, this New York kitchen has spent decades serving Puerto Rican comfort food without dressing it...

A New York tenant says she unknowingly became part of an alleged rent scam after discovering that a stranger’s name appeared on her apartment records. She had lived in the rent-stabilized apartment for about three years, paid rent through her landlord’s management company and had an official lease. The discrepancy only

NEW YORK — Smoldering toilet paper fire sent smoke pouring into a locked-down unit of the notorious MDC Brooklyn federal jail, sending inmates into a panic as they had to wait for someone to notice their plight because the emergency buttons in their cells weren’t working, the Daily News has learned.