Brooklyn NY

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — For the last 36 years, two generations of the Rocchio family have served Richmond and the surrounding neighborhoods from behind the countertop at Classic Pizza. On Sunday, the longtime ownership of the neighborhood institution opened its doors for the last time. “It’s sad, you know?...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is expanding the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program this month, distributing 60,000 new vouchers to Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) across the country. It’s one of the largest expansions in over a decade and is aimed at supporting low-income renters...

Two of the four detainees who broke through a wall and escaped from a federal immigration detention center in Newark have been captured, the FBI says. Sen. Andy Kim said he was told on Friday that the detainees managed to break through an interior wall that led to an exterior one and from there were able to escape to...

The moped driver was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst in serious condition.

The crash happened just after 2 a.m. at the intersection of Avenue U and Coney Island Avenue.

When Superstorm Sandy made a beeline for New York City in October 2012, it flooded huge swaths of downtown Manhattan, leaving 2 million people without electricity and heat and damaging tens of thousands of homes. The storm followed a sweltering summer in New York City, with a procession of heat waves nearing 100...

Police say they were sent to 1886 New York Ave. Thursday night for a wellness check.

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports that New York City faces a significant risk of blackouts as early as this summer, based on findings from the Greater City of New York Assessment for Reliability. Previous blackouts have crippled the city, and future outages could bring serious...

A disbarred Brooklyn attorney on June 5 was convicted of stealing the deeds to 11 residential properties in a decade-long scheme that primarily targeted minority homeowners facing foreclosure. Sanford Solny, 68, of Midwood, was convicted of 13 counts of third-degree criminal possession of stolen property, three...

Luigi Mangione’s job in federal lockup is cleaning showers — and he’s a one-man welcoming committee, according to a fellow jailbird. When Michael Daddea arrived at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, a guard told him he would be housed in the same unit as the accused assassin of...