NYC among the worst-run cities in the country, study finds
While many regard New York City as the greatest city in the world, one new study found it to be among the worst-run in the country. WalletHub, an online financial advisory site, recently released a study of the Best- & Worst-Run Cities in America, with New York City ranking 145th out the county’s 148 largest cities,...
Severe Storm To Bring Damaging Winds, Drenching Downpours: Here’s Timing
Monday, June 30, will be hot and muggy, with highs in the upper 80s to low 90s, according to the National Weather Service. By evening, showers and scattered storms are likely to develop in much of the region. The main event arrives after the calendar flips to July when a...
8-year-old fatally struck by SUV in Crown Heights identified
According to police, a 69-year-old driver of a Honda Pilot collided with the boy who was crossing the intersection of Albany Avenue and Eastern Parkway.
$250K worth of fireworks seized from illegal operation in Brooklyn
BROOKLYN - Fireworks worth about $250,000 were confiscated by the FDNY from an illegal fireworks operation run out of a warehouse in Flatbush. FDNY Commissioner Robert S. Tucker announced yesterday, June 28, that Fire Marshals have arrested a Brooklyn business owner for the sale of illegal fireworks. Everbright...
100+ Dogs Rescued From Home Begin Healing After Years Trapped In ‘Unimaginable Filth’
Police learned of the dogs' plight after a woman inside the home called 911 last week to report that her 73-year-old sister, Eileen Horn, had died, ABC7 New York reported. Officers entered the Mill Basin home on East 66th Street and found dozens of small dogs packed inside amid mountains of trash and piles of feces,...
Dead man found floating in Hudson River
A dead man was found floating in the Hudson River off Harlem on Sunday morning, police said. Cops were called to the scene near Dyckman Street around the Henry Hudson Parkway shortly after 9:30 a.m. and found the body in the water, an NYPD rep said. Cops from the 34th Precinct, as well as firefighters and the NYPD...
NYC to spray mosquito pesticide in four boroughs
NEW YORK (PIX11) — To reduce the number of mosquitoes and the risk of mosquito-borne diseases, the New York City Health Department has scheduled pesticide spraying in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. Aerial-based mosquito larviciding is scheduled for July 1-3. Spraying will happen between 6 and 7 a.m....
Brooklyn man shot and killed in early morning shooting
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A 34-year-old man is dead following an early morning shooting Sunday in Brownsville, according to the NYPD. At approximately 2:58 a.m., officers from the 73rd Precinct responded…
NOHO hellscape: Opioid clinic welcomes junkies jabbing their necks and OD’ing in playgrounds to...
Scenes from “Night of the Living Dead” are playing out a stone’s throw from the famed Angelika Film Center and A-lister apartments in NoHo, where zombified junkies and drug dealers have overtaken entire blocks. At the heart of the problem is a $30 million taxpayer-funded nonprofit called...
Zohran Mamdani doubles down on plan to target ‘whiter neighborhoods’ with higher taxes —...
Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani doubled down Sunday on his plan to jack up property taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods” — while asserting billionaires shouldn’t exist. Mamdani — dubbed “the Fidel Castro of New York” by one deep-pocketed critic — claimed his soak-the-rich proposal was...