N.J. affordable housing lottery opens for 90 rentals from $559 a month. Do you...
Affordable Homes New Jersey has opened a waiting list for 90 affordable rental apartments at The Sylvan, a residential development in Englewood Cliffs set to be completed this summer. The housing lottery is open to very-low-income, low-income and moderate-income households. Rentals range from $559-a-month studios to $1,766-a-month three-bedroom apartments. By...
65-Year-Old Man Beaten During Attempted Robbery Near Cropsey Avenue in Brooklyn, NYPD Says
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Two attackers knocked a 65-year-old man to the ground and repeatedly kicked him in the face during a violent attempted robbery in Brooklyn last week, according to the NYPD. The assault happened around 2:54 p.m. Friday, May 1, near the intersection of Cropsey Avenue and Bay 32nd Street, police said.
This Abandoned New Jersey Station Once Controlled A Swing Bridge And Burned Down In...
Imagine a train station that moonlighted as a bridge operator. Set away in a quiet corner of New Jersey, this hidden relic once held the mechanical keys to a massive swing bridge over the Passaic River. While it spent years waving passengers along, its most dramatic chapter arrived decades after...
Teen hit by suspected DWI driver, critically hurt in Brooklyn, NYPD says
A man is suspected of driving drunk and hitting a teenager in Brooklyn on Friday, police say.
NYPD: Hit-and-run triggers road rage, crash into utility pole on Staten Island
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Authorities allege that a hit-and-run crash triggered a series of road-rage reactions that ended with both drivers in handcuffs after one of the vehicles careened into a utility pole on Hylan Boulevard in New Dorp. Carl Butler, 51, of Slater Boulevard in Midland Beach, allegedly...
87-Year-Old Suspected Serial Killer Who Was Paroled Twice Convicted of Murder, Dismembering the Third...
An 87-year-old convicted killer with a decades-long violent criminal history has once again been found guilty of murder—this time in the brutal killing and dismemberment of a Brooklyn woman. The shocking case has drawn national attention, not only because of the horrific nature of the crime, but also because...
Police: Woman stabbed man on board train in Queens
The attack happened around 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the 111 Street Station in Richmond Hill, Queens.
‘Plague’ of invasive insects may hit New York City this year, experts warn
"We really can't say with any full degree of predictability what's going to happen this year as they encounter this weather."
‘The system is failing.’ Greenpoint residents fed up with tenant accused of terrorizing neighbors
They say 42-year-old Mark Creightney has been assaulting and harassing neighbors for the last four years.
NYC woman, 59, violently raped by neighbor who smashed down her door in vicious...
A 59-year-old Brooklyn woman was allegedly raped by a neighbor who smashed down her apartment door and viciously pummeled and choked her in a violent attack Friday night, police and sources said. The brute busted into the Bensonhurst home on 15th Avenue and 71st Street around 8:30 p.m., entered the woman’s bedroom and demanded sex before unleashing multiple blows and throttling...
