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Owney Madden bought Club Deluxe in 1923 and renamed it the Cotton Club, which once sat at 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem. Madden used the club to sell his illegal “Number One Beer.” Meanwhile, black performers entertained nightly under Prohibition’s shadow. Madden’s connections made the...

Mayor Eric Adams swears in Jessica Tisch as the next commissioner of the New York City Police Department. The mayor credited his experience and his administration’s policing strategy. [ more › ]

Authorities say a violent street gang ran its organization in the Bradley Court Housing Complex in Newark.

Brian Kendall was deported to his native Guyana after serving 16 years for the fatal shooting prosecutors now say he didn't commit. Brian Kendall served more than 16 years for the 1988 killing. A judge vacated his conviction Tuesday. [ more › ]

Democratic socialist and mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani apparently wants to pay for his city-run grocery stores by using taxpayer funds that don’t actually exist. The Queens assemblyman — who handily won the Democratic primary over ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo — has implied that he could pull from $140 million in city...

That’ll be $4.5 million per toe, please. The MTA should pay an arm and a leg to a bike deliveryman who lost all five digits on his left foot in a fall from a chipped Bronx subway platform, a jury said Monday — delivering a whopping $22.75 million verdict in favor of the victim. Bicycle delivery worker Maruf Hossain...

At 6 p.m., Newark police responded to 227 Brookdale Avenue after Ziyad Cook and a 17-year-old were shot, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said. Cook was pronounced dead hours later at University Hospital, authorities said. The condition of the 17-year-old is unknown. Prosecutors declined to release the names of...

Prosecutors say that on August 17, 2023, Bynum and Headen opened fire on a stolen white 2022 Lexus SUV involved in a robbery spree, a crash and a shootout in Newark

To each their own, but we’ll stick to the non-rat-filled tours. New York City is famous for a lot of things. There’s the Empire State Building, Times Square, Central Park, Long Island, the Sewer Alligator Statue…. And then there are the rats. Although NYC officials probably don’t want...

Socialist Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, is facing criticism over a campaign policy document that explicitly calls for shifting the city’s tax burden onto “richer and whiter neighborhoods."