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On the morning of July 4, 2026 — as the United States marked 250 years of independence — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani took to X to deliver a pointed message: America’s founding was never the work of elites. It was the work of ordinary people. In a post timed to the nation’s semiquincentennial, […]

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (PIX11) — A man died after a firework exploded and struck his head during a July 4 party in New York. Suffolk County police said Gabriel Ruiz‑Urresto, 37, was lighting a firework in the backyard of his home around 9:30 p.m. when it exploded and struck him in the head. He was […]

A SEAPLANE crashed into New York City’s East River and started capsizing as a family returned from a birthday party in the Hamptons. The plane, carrying 8 passengers and two pilots plummeted into the river in a botched landing around noon on Sunday. Teenager Khloe Todd, 16, was flying...

A New York jury has found a Long Island man guilty in a deed-theft case involving two Harlem brownstones worth about $4.7 million. Joseph Makhani, 63, of Kings Point, was convicted after a seven-week trial, according to the New York Attorney General’s Office. Prosecutors said Makhani used fraudulent deeds, false docume

It’s a bad day to own a car in New York City. The city is drastically escalating its war on rats, and the casualties are officially your favorite street parking spots. Officials are planning to eliminate nearly 30,000 legal street parking spaces across the five boroughs to make room for roughly 66,000 “ Empire Bins “ —

Step off the ferry at Ellis Island right now and you will find yourself walking straight through an active construction site. Scaffolding hugs the limestone towers of the Main Immigration Building, workers weave through the Registry Room and galleries and yet the National Museum of Immigration is still open for busines

Forty ships from the United States set sail around 9:30 a.m. from the Verrazzano Bridge, making their way up the Hudson River to the George Washington Bridge. The event was the largest parade of tall ships ever assembled.

According to an MTA spokesperson, a falling tree struck the train at about 8:26 p.m. while it was approaching the 161 Street station, hitting the operator’s cab and shattering a front window.

The officer was shot early Sunday morning near the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and St. Johns Place in Brooklyn, according to police.

The shooting took place around 3:40am when officer Groves and his partner, Erick Corniel, encountered a man in a stairwell with a revolver. After running after him from the 22nd floor down to the 19th floor, the suspect turned and shot officer Groves in the chest and was able to escape.