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NEW YORK - An elderly man has died weeks after he was pushed onto subway tracks at an Upper East Side station, and authorities have now ruled the case a homicide. Police say the incident happened around 11:39 a.m. on March 8 at the subway station at Lexington Avenue and East 63rd Street.

The maniac suspected of gunning down his ex-girlfriend in Harlem after a break-up late last year was arrested Wednesday, cops and sources said. Eliud Garcia, 50, was picked up by NYPD Warrants and charged with murder in the Dec. 23, 2025 death of Basilisa Negron, 47, who was killed in a hail of bullets in her...

Tops Friendly Markets is recalling garlic sold at stores across New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.

Nearly three months after a Harlem mother was gunned down just before Christmas, the ex-boyfriend her family always feared is now under arrest, police and relatives say. Officers picked up 47-year-old Basilisa Negron’s former partner in the Bronx on Wednesday and charged him in her Dec. 23, 2025 killing inside a West...

A Vietnam veteran in Broad Channel was left with almost nothing but the clothes on his back after his home was lost to a fire. On Thursday morning, March 19, Broad Channel resident Robert “Fuzzy” Gill, was out getting groceries when a call was made to his home at 321 Bert Road for a two-alarm blaze. FDNY, including...

A Bronx resident is desperately searching for his four beloved bulldogs after his trusted dog walker failed to return the pooches over the weekend. Eusebio Baez, 35, was on his way home from a vacation in Vermont on Sunday when he received a phone call from his longtime dog walker, who said his dogs, Churro, Mocha,...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani tactfully, and some would say cordially, shut down a heckler who interrupted the announcement of his “Neighborhood Builders Fast Track” program, a new affordable housing initiative in Brooklyn on Wednesday. Mamdani refused to take the heckler’s bait and even went so far...

A crime scene was established near 224 South 3rd St. just before 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. As part of his vow to close a multi-billion dollar budget gap, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Wednesday an initial wave of spending cuts to New York City’s Education Department. But the...

Two teenage girls were shot Tuesday afternoon in front of the McDonald's at 1403 Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island, turning a routine weekday into a crime scene. The victims, ages 14 and 16, were hit by gunfire and taken to NYU Langone Hospital 6Brooklyn. Police say both are expected to recover.