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A mother and son were discovered mummified inside a Brooklyn apartment on Wednesday afternoon — after residents reported a troubling smell wafting through the building for days, according to sources and authorities. The 80-year-old woman and 52-year-old man were discovered by officers who entered the building on the...

NEWARK, N.J. (PIX11) — A loaded handgun was discovered in the book bag of a student trying to enter a high school in New Jersey on Wednesday, according to Newark police. The 17-year-old boy was trying to enter Great Oaks Charter School at 9 a.m. when the loaded gun set off the metal detector and […]

NEW JERSEY (PIX11) — An important change is coming for NJ Transit commuters who are enrolled in the Reduced Fare Program. Beginning on Jan. 1, only Reduced Fare Photo ID cards will be accepted for discounted travel on NJ Transit. Commuters who have an older non-photo Reduced Fare ID...

HARLEM, Manhattan (PIX11) — The man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death was blackout drunk when he plunged the large knife into the Harlem mom’s body more than 20 times, prosecutors said Wednesday. Luis Marquez, 41, allegedly stalked Carmen Lopez, 47, at a club hours before he was caught on surveillance...

CYPRESS HILLS – POLICE ARE SEARCHING for an unknown man who at around 2:15 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 13, displayed a boxcutter while in a verbal dispute with a 36-year-old man aboard a southbound S train at the Euclid Avenue A/C station. The dispute continued onto the platform, where the suspect struck the victim with an...

Several Black leaders that Eyewitness News spoke with said they're willing to be patient with Zohran Mamdani's transition, and take the mayor-elect at his word.

The largest known colonial burial ground for people of African descent in the United States — both free and enslaved — is in New York City. That burial ground in Lower Manhattan is a national park and monument that commemorates the forgotten and brutal history of slavery in New York City. But it’s far from the only...

Rana Abdelhamid has filed to run for Assembly District 36, the western Queens district currently represented by New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, according to state Board of Elections records. Abdelhamid had previously told City & State she was considering a run, and Wednesday’s filing makes it official....

Federal agents pulled a man from a car in a dramatic caught-on-video scene in Washington Heights Wednesday morning – as onlookers filmed and one bellowed, “Show your faces!” Someone even called the cops on the officers as they tried to pull a man out of a black SUV at West 157th Street and Broadway, according to a...

There are growing concerns in Washington Heights after a man was forcibly taken into custody by federal agents wearing face coverings on Wednesday morning.