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New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos announced the opening of enrollment for the city's new "Birth-to-2 Child Care Initiative," a program designed to provide free early childhood education to infants and toddlers in neighborhoods with the greatest need. The initiative will offer...

Ahead of the holiday tourist rush, city health officials in New York City reported nearly 14,000 flu cases in the first week of December.

The death of Rob Reiner, acclaimed director of "When Harry Met Sally," prompted heartfelt tributes from Katz's Delicatessen, the iconic spot his film helped turn into a global landmark.

Feds say a 12-person drug crew turned an East Harlem NYCHA building into an open-air narcotics market, complete with stash apartments and firearms. Agents recovered multiple guns, including long guns, along with fentanyl, crack cocaine and packaging materials during coordinated raids. Three alleged members remain at...

NEW YORK — A Brooklyn man was seriously injured in a desperate leap from his fourth-floor apartment after his kitchen caught fire on Tuesday, firefighters said. The 42-year-old victim became trapped inside his top-floor apartment on Keap St. near Marcy Ave. in Williamsburg after the blaze erupted in his kitchen...

The teenager fell to her death from an elevated point of the Chapin School in Manhattan

A 12-year-old boy was stabbed inside a Brooklyn park in a mid-afternoon burst of violence Thursday, police said. The pre-teen was knifed in the chest inside Betsy Head Park atThomas S. Boyland Street and Dumont Ave. in Brownsville minutes before 3 p.m., cops said. He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical...

The transformation of a vacant hotel near John F. Kennedy International Airport into affordable housing is complete, marking New York’s first development of its kind. Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday announced the completion of the Baisley Pond Park Residences in South Jamaica, which has turned the former JFK Hilton...

Thanks to the United States Marines and its annual Toys for Tots drive, thousands of toys landed in eager hands, lighting up little faces a week before Christmas.

At 5:10 p.m., officers responded to an apartment of Rose Avenue and found Al-Jahmir Curry, a 16-year-old Beaver Falls, Pa. resident with a gunshot wound to the upper body, Acting Hudson County Prosecutor Wayne Mello said. Curry was pronounced dead at the scene and his death was determined to be...