Newark NJ

The basics: University Hospital begins campus overhaul July 1 in Newark New admin and clinical facility to open by 2027 at Bergen St. Rutgers to demolish 11 buildings for phased redevelopme...

Newark's Ironbound neighborhood — often affectionately called "Down Neck"— combines global cuisine, rich New Jersey history, and a celebratory spirit, making it a destination you should not leave off the itinerary the next time you're in the Garden State. It spans 4 square miles and is home to approximately 55,000...

At 6 p.m., Newark police responded to 227 Brookdale Avenue after Ziyad Cook and a 17-year-old were shot, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said. Cook was pronounced dead hours later at University Hospital, authorities said. The condition of the 17-year-old is unknown. Prosecutors declined to release the names of...

Prosecutors say that on August 17, 2023, Bynum and Headen opened fire on a stolen white 2022 Lexus SUV involved in a robbery spree, a crash and a shootout in Newark

Socialist Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, is facing criticism over a campaign policy document that explicitly calls for shifting the city’s tax burden onto “richer and whiter neighborhoods."

A bungling thief opened fire inside a Brooklyn post office on Monday after he poked his gun into a terrified customer — and the tellers ran, leaving him empty-handed, authorities and sources said. The would-be robber stormed into the USPS’ Midwood branch on Coney Island Avenue near Avenue I around 1:15 p.m. but left...

The New York City Fire Department has reportedly punished an officer for bringing "hot girls" onto a truck for a ride. According to a report from the New York Post, an officer on Ladder 18 was disciplined for bringing some young women onto the truck for a ride down the street. He has been punished because he...

At 8:30 p.m., officers responded to a shooting at 15 N 16th St. and found Shalamar Brown critically injured, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said. Brown sustained multiple gunshot wounds to his upper chest, abdomen and thigh, authorities said. She was taken to University Hospital where she died in surgery,...

In New Jersey, bike-riding kids are hoping to get pulled over and ticketed by a police officer.

Zohran Mamdani isn’t a socialist in name only; he’d truly love to turn New York into a socialist “utopia” — first, by doing away with billionaires. As he put it Sunday: “I don’t think that we should have billionaires.” Let’s be clear here: Most billionaires earned their wealth by providing goods and services that...