Staten Island NY

A classic rock band has been added to the 2025 music lineup at the Great New York State Fair. The Steve Miller Band will perform at the New York State Fair’s Suburban Park stage on Thursday, Aug. 21, at 8 p.m. The concert is free to attend with admission to the Fair.

Three people are dead after a Queens house went up in flames in the first hours of Easter Sunday. FDNY officials said the fire started just after 1 a.m. on Chevy Chase Street in Jamaica Estates. The fire started on the first floor, they said, before quickly spreading to the second floor and attic. There were people...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Nearly three months after the Advance/SILive.com investigated the potentially life-threatening traffic effectively locking Staten Islanders inside their community, the problem continues, according to its general manager. Members of Goethals Community — the only mobile home park on Staten Island...

The NYPD is searching for the suspect accused of trying to rape a woman in the Bronx. The attempted rape happened around 1 p.m. on Friday, April 18, near Creston Avenue and East 184th Street. According to the NYPD, the suspect approached a 70-year-old woman from behind and attempted to sexually assault her before...

A 45-year-old man was gunned down and another was wounded in the Bronx on Sunday, while three other men were wounded — one critically — in separate shootings in the borough, police said. In the deadly shooting, police said a 911 call came in around 2 p.m., bringing officers to the rear courtyard of Mott Haven Houses...

A new Ground Round Restaurant has opened its doors near Boston, MA, leaving many New Yorkers wondering if the new owners are planning a return to New York. In its heyday, Ground Round was one of the most popular family restaurants in the country, with over 200 locations nationwide. Most people who grew up in the 70s,...

Long Island Rep. Laura Gillen is urging the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to hold an emergency hearing on the nationwide “surge” in deadly traffic accidents — after an unsettling investigation revealed that a serious car crash occurs every seven minutes on Long Island. “The failure to secure our...

A man shot to death on a return visit to the Harlem NYCHA development where he grew up was a father of four with another child on the way, heartbroken relatives say. Christopher Jimenez, 34, was shot in the chest during a confrontation with two men in the lobby of a Manhattanville Houses building on W. 126th St. near...

On April 1, two students were unintentionally given cannabis-infused gummies during class, sending them to the hospital and triggering widespread attention to the risks of mislabeled or lookalike edibles in school settings. The incident happened at the William J. Grabiarz School of Excellence, where a teacher...

Three people died in a Queens fire that tore through a house full of shoddy converted apartments early Sunday — with panicked survivors leaping out of windows to escape the flames, FDNY officials said. The blaze broke out on Chevy Chase St. near Henley Road in Jamaica Estates about 1:30 a.m., officials said, with the...