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Oota Ongo, left, records on his phone as Sean Combs’ sons emerge from a van and walk into court. The stretch of sidewalk outside the courthouse has transformed into a mix of celebrity red carpet, block party, tourist destination and livestream studio. [ more › ]

New York’s Central Park reached 99F (37C) Tuesday afternoon, setting a new record high for that date. New York’s power grid is under intense pressure as a relentless heat wave pushes electricity demand to extreme levels, prompting rare energy emergency warnings and spiking power prices across the region. On Tuesday...

New York State Parks issued an advisory Friday after a 20-year-old woman reported minor injuries from a marine wildlife bite while in the surf at Jones Beach State Park earlier this week.

A newly promoted Big Apple detective — who has the same job as his 9/11 hero dad — will now wear his father’s identical shield number, decades after it was retired. Joe Vigiano, 32, of the NYPD’s elite Emergency Service Unit, sported shield number 4511 at a promotions ceremony Friday — years after his father, Joseph...

Jamaui Mezar's distraught family spoke with Eyewitness News after he was killed while a group of friends played with a gun inside a Queens apartment.

Time for an Exodus? From extreme heat to swarms of insects, New York City has been hit with a barrage of Biblical plagues this summer. Get the facts behind the tornado of bees spotted in Midtown Manhattan, which one NYU student called “the actualization of [her] biggest fear.” Plus, we dive into other strange swarms...

Now this is journalism. This is investigative reporting. As Liam Quigley of Gothamist reported, New York City’s public pools were inadvertently turned into a public toilet on 203 separate occasions last year as nearly every pool in NYC was pooped in, forcing closures and cutting swimming hours for a city looking for...

Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher and part-owner of the progressive monthly magazine The Nation, shared a “fun fact” on social media today about Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist who just won the Democratic primary for Mayor of New York City. Vanden Heuvel, a fellow New York City native, wrote: “Fun Fact:...

Anne Burrell gave viewers a look into her Brooklyn home just months before she would be found dead on her shower floor.

Named one of the "Top 20 Living Economists," Dr. Skousen is a professional economist, investment expert, university professor, and author of more than 25 books. “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” — Karl Marx, words written on his tombstone in...