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Spend enough time in New York City and, if you’re a lover of the outdoors, you’ll start to go a little stir crazy. And I say this as somebody who’s very much in love with every corner of that town. But trees and grass are tough to find on the island of Manhattan. And once you realize that, you can’t help but take...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — This month, we celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and the national holiday in his honor, designated as a day of service. What that means for former prison inmate Mike Owens is living every day of his life in a firm commitment to helping others.

An employee for the Essex County Department of Corrections filed a lawsuit Monday claiming she was demoted, moved to a small office and discriminated against after taking time off to have surgery. Keisha Ruffin, 53, of Plainfield, alleges in court papers she was “stripped of her original duties and essentially...

Jewish students at NYU and Columbia express fears after NYC Mayor Mamdani revoked the city's antisemitism definition, worrying about campus protests.

Surprise! It’s a boy and a girl! Baby fever hit Essex County, New Jersey’s Turtle Back Zoo in late November when Makena, the zoo’s three-year-old lioness, gave birth two healthy — and absolutely adorable — cubs. The organization exclusively revealed the pair's sexes to TODAY on Jan. 8 after a year-long effort to...

The lawsuit states the child fell from a window on the 20th floor of Elizabeth Towers early in the morning on Nov. 15.

The family of a man shot and killed by police called for accountability after the state’s attorney general released footage of the fatal shooting on Tuesday. Advocates for the family of 29-year-old Far Rockaway man Chez Fray, who was shot and killed on Dec. 21, want the new Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYPD Commissioner...

NEW YORK, NY – Two teenage males have been charged in connection with the shooting death of 18-year-old Kimberly Olimos, a Bronx resident found fatally wounded inside a Midtown Manhattan apartment complex late last year. Police say officers responded to a 911 call reporting an assault in progress around 12:45…

A bloodied, unhinged man armed with a sharp object was shot by cops inside Brooklyn Methodist Hospital on Thursday in a scary altercation that plunged the medical center into lockdown, according to sources and witnesses. Police responded to the hospital around 5:40 p.m. after receiving a 911 call about a man who...

Now that New York State has granted licenses for three casinos to open in the near future, will this hurt the Atlantic City market?