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New York State Parks issued an advisory Friday after a 20-year-old woman reported minor injuries from a marine wildlife bite while in the surf at Jones Beach State Park earlier this week.

A newly promoted Big Apple detective — who has the same job as his 9/11 hero dad — will now wear his father’s identical shield number, decades after it was retired. Joe Vigiano, 32, of the NYPD’s elite Emergency Service Unit, sported shield number 4511 at a promotions ceremony Friday — years after his father, Joseph...

Old Stone House (Brooklyn, New York) The Battle of Long Island was the largest fight of the Revolution, and it all came down to one farmhouse. Maryland soldiers faced an impossible task: attack 2,000 British troops with less than 400 men. They did it anyway, charging again and again while their fellow soldiers...

Jamaui Mezar's distraught family spoke with Eyewitness News after he was killed while a group of friends played with a gun inside a Queens apartment.

Let’s dedicate a moment to a New Yorker’s sixth main food group: pizza. It’s a sacred thing to us, and we take it very, very seriously–there is a reason why NYC is the #1 best U.S. city for pizza addicts and two iconic pizza spots in the city are among the most photographed in the U.S. And this is precisely why we’re...

Time for an Exodus? From extreme heat to swarms of insects, New York City has been hit with a barrage of Biblical plagues this summer. Get the facts behind the tornado of bees spotted in Midtown Manhattan, which one NYU student called “the actualization of [her] biggest fear.” Plus, we dive into other strange swarms...

Now this is journalism. This is investigative reporting. As Liam Quigley of Gothamist reported, New York City’s public pools were inadvertently turned into a public toilet on 203 separate occasions last year as nearly every pool in NYC was pooped in, forcing closures and cutting swimming hours for a city looking for...

According to police, they received a 911 call around 10:45 p.m. Thursday for an assault in progress in the vicinity of Avenue L and East 94th Street.

Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher and part-owner of the progressive monthly magazine The Nation, shared a “fun fact” on social media today about Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist who just won the Democratic primary for Mayor of New York City. Vanden Heuvel, a fellow New York City native, wrote: “Fun Fact:...

Anne Burrell gave viewers a look into her Brooklyn home just months before she would be found dead on her shower floor.