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Hudson County officials say Jersey City Police officers came under fire while driving marked police cars southbound on JFK Boulevard near Clinton Avenue around 1:20 p.m.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Dash cam footage recently submitted by an anonymous reader shows what could have been a major accident on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. The video, which was submitted to the Advance/SILive.com anonymously, captures a crash that occurred last month on the span’s lower level. According to...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Scams and car-related thefts were hot topics at a “Coffee With a Cop” pop-up event on Wednesday morning in New Dorp. Crime Prevention Officer Anthony Robles and Community Affairs Officer Mario Mazier offered free coffee, baked treats and safety tips to Staten Islanders. Members of the New Dorp...

Twin brothers were shot in Brooklyn Thursday afternoon, leaving one dead and the other injured, while the gunman remains at large, according to police and sources. The siblings were found with gunshot wounds when cops arrived at Sutter and Euclid Avenues in the East New York neighborhood around 2:40 p.m. following...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Though already found unfit by the state to face the charges against him, a defendant in a 2020 murder case remained held this week on Rikers Island in lieu of a treatment facility, according to his attorneys. Ayomide Shodiya, now 26, was tried in August...

New York City parents push back against the controversial cellphone ban in schools that was recently implemented.

An 18-year-old man was arrested Thursday and is facing federal charges in the fatal shooting of a 69-year-old grandmother with a walker in East Harlem last week.

“I was a person who created nothing, gave nothing to anybody,” Jonathan Kleisner said of his time in finance

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (PIX11) — A Staten Island mother says every time she walks down her hallway, it’s a reminder of the day her one-year-old baby girl was thrown away like trash. The baby survived being tossed down the garbage chute in her apartment building. While she is still recovering, her mother is desperately...

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