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New facts have emerged about the dreadful Dec. 19, 2025, murder of 76-year-old Zhu Hou in her Knickberbocker Village apartment on the deep Lower East Side. As feared, the slaying was matricide, and her suspected killer was her son, 41-year-old Wei Hou. Initial reports suggested the murder weapon was a...

Last week, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as the 112th mayor of New York City.

The third grand-prize ticket in the “$250,000 Crossword” scratch-off lottery game was sold last week at a market in Essex County. The ticket was purchased Dec. 29 at Millennium Food Mart on Bloomfield Avenue in Newark, New Jersey Lottery officials said Monday. Three more $250,000 tickets remain unclaimed...

A new, highly popular Yiddish weekly is taking the heimishe world by storm. A Chassidisher Farbrengen is the first of its kind weekly publication that presents the foundational teachings of chassidus in a down-to-earth way for Yiddish-speaking communities worldwide. “Since the start of Dor Hashvii,” Rabbi Levi...

In a new year that promises to be as wretched, rancorous and bloody as the last one - cue oil lust and delusions of empire - we opt to celebrate the stirring hope and promise of newly elected Democratic Socialist and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has embraced diversity, collectivism, and the rare chance to...

The NYPD had to break up a fight between protesters outside Nicolas Maduro's court hearing on Monday

TOTOWA, N.J. (PIX11) – A man and a woman were killed in a wrong-way crash on I-80 near Totowa early Monday morning, according to New Jersey State Police. Officials said the crash happened near exit 54 around 2 a.m. Albin Fermin, 30, was driving his Honda sedan the wrong way in the westbound lanes of […]

As someone who would rather be at home than at a crowded restaurant, I am a rather big fan of food delivery services. However, I am not blind to the various issues that can stem from ordering food that’s being delivered by a random person. In New York City, New York, a woman wanted nothing more than to wind down with...

Swedish-based fast-fashion retailer H&M will close two New York City stores this month, adding to the brand’s tally of approximately 200 closures that took place in 2025. “We can confirm that our stores at 150 East 86th Street and 18 Church Street will close in January 2026,” an H&M spokesperson confirmed via email....

The car crashed into the building at Bridge and Pearl Streets in Elizabeth around 8:28 a.m. on Monday.