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Several businesses were still picking up the pieces and some residents who live in the apartments above still can't return to their homes.

A grand jury has indicted a Cumberland County man after cops said he stashed his cousin’s dead body in a closet and continued collecting the man’s benefits to pay his own bills. Steven M. Blankenship, 58, of Fairfield Township, was indicted last week for second-degree desecrating human remains,...

Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2025. Donate today. A man detained at the notorious Rikers Island jail complex died on Tuesday due to a medical emergency, jail officials said, marking the ninth reported death of someone in or recently released from the New York City Department of Correction's...

FILE -- A New York man will spend 45 months in prison for conspiring to traffic firearms from Maine to New York. 32-year-old Tyquinn Montell cannon pleaded guilty in June of last year. According to court records, beginning in May 2022 Cannon knowingly conspired with others in Maine and New...

The news of his death broke Monday afternoon, and the tributes have been pouring in on social media.

Let's go back in time to the day legendary foodie Guy Fieri visited one of New Jersey's most popular hamburger joints. It was a long time ago when legendary foodie Guy Fieri visited a legendary New Jersey hamburger joint. Anyone who grew up in Hackensack or lived and worked there...

(WNY News Now) – Marc Silverman Jr., a former New York City Department of Correction captain, pleaded guilty to felony charges after unlawfully collecting more than $200,000 in Social Security disability benefits while working full-time as a school bus driver. NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James...

The Hudson County Prosecutor's Office says Ileana Hernandez, Thomas Mannion and Marquis Santiago were arrested last week.

The driver of a stolen rental car left two bystanders “severely dismembered” before fleeing the fatal crash soaked in blood — leaving an open bottle of tequila and two 9mm guns in the wreck, Manhattan prosecutors revealed Tuesday. The new details emerged as 23-year-old Autumn Donna Ascencio Romero was arraigned on...

Of the dozens of policy proposals in Zohran Mamdani’s platform, few have generated as much debate as the Democratic mayoral nominee’s call for city-owned grocery stores. The idea has broad support from progressives, while some critics warn against “radical socialism.” But New York already has city-owned grocery...