New York City opens pools at three schools
The city is celebrating the opening of three new school pools. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.
Woman charged with murder, accused of stabbing neighbor to death in Canarsie
Belinda Munford, 53, is accused of killing 34-year-old Isaiah Freeman just after 8 p.m. on May 27 near Seaview Avenue and Rockaway Parkway, about a block from their homes at the NYCHA Bay View Houses.
Raise the Age claims another victim, shot dead on a Bronx bus
New York’s perverse 2018 “Raise the Age” law empowered teens to carry guns and behave like thugs, safe in the knowledge that the courts would treat even vicious criminals as wayward children. That culture of impunity surely shaped the thinking of the 15-year-old suspect in Monday’s midafternoon murder on a Bronx bus. W
Dangerous Multi-Day Weather Alert Issued For New York
State officials are telling us to prepare right now for an extended stretch of dangerous conditions. Here is the exact timeline.
‘This is gross’ DC 37 members frustrated with Tier 6 retirement age rug-pull
While members of District Council 37 in Tier 6 will soon see their pension contribution rates decrease, some in the city’s largest municipal union are frustrated that they will still have to wait until age 63 to retire, while teachers across the state will now be able to retire at 58. Their frustration with the lack of
Upper West Side Stunner: Luxury Tower Rents Drop Below $1,000 In City Lottery
A new affordable-housing lottery at Three Waterline Square on the Upper West Side is dangling one- and two-bedroom luxury apartments for under $1,000 a month, a price point that usually belongs in New York nostalgia, not current listings. The income-restricted homes sit inside Waterline Square’s newest glassy, amenity-
Bizarre reason for thunderous rumble in Hudson River revealed by scientists in eerie video
Sturgeons’ booty calls apparently have a bass beat. Scientists have discovered that the huge, Volkswagen-sized fish have been making thunderous, rumbling sounds while getting it on in the Hudson River, per a raunchy study published in the journal Endangered Species Research. “It’s almost that you feel it more than you
East New York Affordable Housing Lottery Has $1,238 Two-Bedroom Apartments
An affordable housing lottery has launched for a new 13-story development on Atlantic Avenue in East New York. The 229-unit building largely replaced a row of two and three-story mixed-use buildings that long stood on the arterial route, which was part of the neighborhood’s areawide rezoning. Included in the...
New Yorkers entering homeless shelters surged 27% under Adams, report says
People with their luggage line up for dinner at a shelter for the homeless in New York, the United States, on Nov. 21, 2025. The Coalition for the Homeless said people seeking shelter who are not asylum seekers grew between 2022 and 2025. [ more › ]
Pizzeria Ida Announces Move to Manhattan
For months, Dan Pizzutillo has taken to social media threatening to move Pizzeria Ida, the Burlington pizza joint he opened with Erika Strand eight years ago, out of town. In an Instagram post on Monday, the co-owners announced they’d be closing their Riverside Avenue shop and moving the business to Manhattan.
