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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — It’s time to speed up an East Shore clean-up, two local elected officials recently told the responsible agencies. Prompted by a July 23 Advance/SILive.com report, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis and South Shore City Councilmember Frank Morano penned a July 28 letter to leaders with the National Parks Serv

NYC weather Today is posing a double threat of dangerous heat and severe thunderstorms, with the National Weather Service issuing both a Heat Advisory and active Severe Thunderstorm Warnings covering parts of the region. Heat index values are expected to reach or exceed 95 degrees across much of the area, while fast mo

Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney announced today that Peterson Jules, 40, of East Patchogue, was arrested and charged with criminal impersonation in the second degree for allegedly misrepresenting himself as an employee of the New York City Health and Hospital Special Police on four separate occasion

An early-morning shooting in Paterson left a 34-year-old man at the hospital with a gunshot wound Saturday night. Members of the Paterson Police Department responded to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center around 2:07 a.m. on Aug. 8, after receiving reports of a gunshot victim entering the facility. Investigators sai

The man reportedly bet three different people back in May about an apartment near the Botanical Garden on Marion Avenue. Each victim gave him a security deposit.

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A 25-year-old man was shot in the right arm and a 21-year-old was struck in the left leg when a gunman opened fire outside a Brooklyn home late at night, and weeks later police still haven't identified who pulled the trigger. The shooting happened in front of 25 Raleigh Place, a residential block of early 20th-century

The FDNY battled a firefighter in Norwood that left a dozen people injured and two people dead Wednesday. Recovery operations had been delayed because the fire left the building unstable, according to FDNY. [ more › ]

A man lay unconscious in the middle of East 165th Street in Concourse Village early Saturday morning after a physical fight outside 1059 College Ave — and before help could reach him, he was struck first by a fleeing white BMW X5 and then by an NYPD patrol car. He was pronounced dead at Lincoln Hospital, and police are

Hip hop is rightly recognised as having originated as a Black art form, but that does somewhat obscure other communities’ role in its development. Latinos, as just one notable example, were there from the very beginning. Hip hop first emerged in the Bronx, a highly diverse New York borough...