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Heavy rains caused flooding in Sept. 2023. Credit: Marc A. Hermann / MTA on Flickr. New York City has released proposed rules to legalize the thousands of illegal basement and cellar apartments found across the five boroughs. The Department of Buildings and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development on...

CYPRESS HILLS – POLICE ARE SEARCHING for an unknown man who at around 2:15 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 13, displayed a boxcutter while in a verbal dispute with a 36-year-old man aboard a southbound S train at the Euclid Avenue A/C station. The dispute continued onto the platform, where the suspect struck the victim with an...

Several Black leaders that Eyewitness News spoke with said they're willing to be patient with Zohran Mamdani's transition, and take the mayor-elect at his word.

abc7ny.com - 11/07/2025 09:54:45 AM. The recent arrest of a 27-year-old man, Eric McMichael, who was charged with the rape of a 12-year-old girl in a NYCHA apartment building in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has sparked widespread discussion. The incident, which took place in the building's lobby, has left the...

The largest known colonial burial ground for people of African descent in the United States — both free and enslaved — is in New York City. That burial ground in Lower Manhattan is a national park and monument that commemorates the forgotten and brutal history of slavery in New York City. But it’s far from the only...

Rana Abdelhamid has filed to run for Assembly District 36, the western Queens district currently represented by New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, according to state Board of Elections records. Abdelhamid had previously told City & State she was considering a run, and Wednesday’s filing makes it official....

Federal agents pulled a man from a car in a dramatic caught-on-video scene in Washington Heights Wednesday morning – as onlookers filmed and one bellowed, “Show your faces!” Someone even called the cops on the officers as they tried to pull a man out of a black SUV at West 157th Street and Broadway, according to a...

There are growing concerns in Washington Heights after a man was forcibly taken into custody by federal agents wearing face coverings on Wednesday morning.

A 21-year-old man who was arrested in New York a day after seriously injuring a veteran sheriff's deputy in Maryland during a wild chase has been brought back to the state to face charges, authorities announced. Yonkers resident Juan Yahir Quiroz Manzueta has been identified and arrested as the driver...

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