Brooklyn NY

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is making a show of cutting the budget, with videos of him looking for millions under sofa cushions. He’s pretending he’s leaving no stone unturned to close a $5.4 billion budget gap. Don’t buy it. These are token gestures meant to suggest the city has cut all it can, giving Albany cover to...

The incident occurred in Newark, N.J., on the morning of Sunday, March 29

The number of New Jersey residents converting to Catholicism is expected to reach a record-high number this Easter, according to the Archdiocese of Newark. New Jerseyans are turning to the Catholic church now more than ever, with a 72% increase of registered Catholics since 2023 and a 30% increase this year alone.

WOODSIDE, Queens (PIX11) — A woman was hit and killed by a garbage truck in Queens Sunday night, police said. The deadly crash happened just before midnight on 62nd Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside. The victim was identified as 19-year-old Nishat Jannat. Police said the 38-year-old driver stayed on scene and...

Furious protesters blocked off construction trucks and swarmed the site of a proposed homeless shelter in Brooklyn on Sunday evening — after rumors swirled that workers would break ground at the new facility as early as Monday morning. Several hundred protesters lined multiple blocks in Bensonhurst, calling upon...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Three businesses along Hylan Boulevard were burglarized in the early morning hours on Sunday. According to a spokesperson for the NYPD, around 1:20 a.m., an unknown person or persons broke a window and entered the Dunkin store located at 1854 Hylan Blvd. in Dongan Hills.

An American Airlines flight from New York to Chicago was diverted to Detroit on Sunday after a reported passenger disturbance, with FBI and local authorities responding to the scene.

CARLSTADT, NJ — A man turned himself in to police March 26 after allegedly assaulting another person and threatening them with a box cutter at a laundromat earlier in the week. PO Smith and PO Linde responded to a reported disturbance at a laundromat on Hackensack Street on March...

Great fried catfish is the kind of dish people are willing to travel for, and this New York restaurant has quietly become the place many point to when the craving strikes. The setting feels relaxed and unpretentious, letting the food take center stage and giving diners a chance to enjoy a meal that feels both...

A historic Brooklyn mosque in the Heights neighborhood was vandalized in the predawn hours of March 9, when an unknown substance was smeared across its front door and pages of a religious book were left scattered on the steps. The unsettling scene has left worshippers and neighbors on edge and prompted a police...