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ROCKAWAY, N.Y (PIX11) — What was supposed to be a scenic ride turned frightening for passengers on a Rockaway ferry Saturday. Video obtained by PIX11 News showed riders rocking from side to side as the ferry pushed through rough storm waters during the storm on Fourth of July. “I was on this ferry. My family […]

On the morning of July 4, 2026 — as the United States marked 250 years of independence — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani took to X to deliver a pointed message: America’s founding was never the work of elites. It was the work of ordinary people. In a post timed to the nation’s semiquincentennial, […]

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (PIX11) — A man died after a firework exploded and struck his head during a July 4 party in New York. Suffolk County police said Gabriel Ruiz‑Urresto, 37, was lighting a firework in the backyard of his home around 9:30 p.m. when it exploded and struck him in the head. He was […]

One person was hospitalized and a New Jersey man was arrested after a fight escalated into a stabbing outside of a Murrieta apartment complex on Thursday, according to police.

There have been at least 19 suspected heat-related deaths across New Jersey as temperatures continue to soar over the July 4 holiday, officials said. “We started to see what we believed to be heat-related deaths as early as Thursday of this week… many of these individuals were found in homes without air conditioning,”

PASCACK VALLEY AREA — Strong storms that moved through Bergen County on Saturday night, July 4, left downed trees, scattered outages and traffic-signal problems in parts of the Pascack Valley, and forced the cancellation or postponement of some holiday fireworks displays. The National Weather Service has issued a Flood

A coffin over dinner should feel like a warning. At The Old Canal Inn in Nutley, it somehow feels like part of the charm. One minute you’re walking into what looks like a no-nonsense North Jersey neighborhood bar, and the next you’re looking around at skeletons, old photos, dark wood, ceiling oddities, and a roped-off

A New Jersey home burglary turned into a driveway car theft after police said two suspects entered a house through an unlocked door and stole vehicle keys from inside. Nutley police responded to a home on Carrie Court shortly before 1:30 a.m. on June 23 after a stolen vehicle was reported, according to The Observer. …

It’s a bad day to own a car in New York City. The city is drastically escalating its war on rats, and the casualties are officially your favorite street parking spots. Officials are planning to eliminate nearly 30,000 legal street parking spaces across the five boroughs to make room for roughly 66,000 “ Empire Bins “ —

Forty ships from the United States set sail around 9:30 a.m. from the Verrazzano Bridge, making their way up the Hudson River to the George Washington Bridge. The event was the largest parade of tall ships ever assembled.