Brooklyn NY

A group of 14 restaurant owners representing two dozen Hell’s Kitchen establishments has sent the City Council a letter, warning that a bill to raise the minimum wage to $30 is not economically viable for independent eateries and will lead to widespread closures if passed. Most commentary on Intro...

Police say 55-year-old Isaac Mbolo, an Uber driver, was shot and killed on the morning of Jan. 1 while heading home after a holiday shift.

Dorothy Chiles suffered a broken hip after the incident at Birmingham New Street station Getty An 87-year-old great-grandmother, Dorothy Chiles, died six weeks after being assaulted at Birmingham New Street station. Ms Chiles suffered a broken hip during the incident, which occurred around 11 am on 19 November...

There is a strange tension in American travel right now. Nationally, crime statistics are dropping to levels not seen in decades. The data is genuinely encouraging. Yet many travelers are quietly crossing certain cities off their road trip lists, telling friends at dinner tables and in online forums that something...

The arrests followed an investigation into an assault that occurred March 14 outside River Street Garage. Police said the victim sustained serious injuries in the incident.

The trial of NYPD hero Jonathan Diller’s accused killer was thrown into chaos Wednesday when the jury foreman claimed the panel had acquitted the defendant of first-degree murder — and one of the jurors denied it to the judge. Diller’s widow and mother let out gasps and wails in the Queens courtroom when the foreman...

A 7-month-old girl was shot dead in her stroller by a stray bullet while walking with her parents in Brooklyn, with cops now looking for a pair of moped-riding thugs, police and sources said. The family was strolling near Humboldt and Moore streets early in the afternoon when the shots rang out, and the two suspected...

Prosecutors unsealed an indictment Tuesday alleging the operators of city-funded migrant shelters skimmed $1 million from their no-bid contracts, and pocketed kickbacks from subcontractors they brought in to handle security and food. The charges filed by U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella in Brooklyn are part of a broader...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani turned up in a construction helmet Monday to unveil the city’s first “free” child-care center for municipal workers. Given the bill he’s handing taxpayers, New Yorkers might want to grab a helmet, too: They’re the ones about to take a pounding. Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at a “Rental Ripoff”...

Teen shot in neck during Brooklyn robbery linked to social