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Free Press Reporter Maya Sulkin shares new reporting about hateful comments the late Blackstone director is receiving online.

NYC drivers would lose roughly 300,000 parking spots and taxpayers would be in the hole for $3 billion under a bill being fast-tracked by far-left City Council members. The NYC Council’s Progressive Caucus announced this week that it plans to push the full Council to approve legislation by year’s end requiring the...

The NYPD said a 60-year-old man has been found deceased in the Kingsbridge Heights section of The Bronx. A police spokesperson said that on Friday, Aug. 1, at around 2.35 p.m., police responded to a 911 call regarding an unconscious male inside 3600 Bailey Avenue, the address of the Deegan Motel.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. has confirmed the sentencing of Keanu Martinez to 40 years-to-life in state prison for his grave assault crimes. Convicted for predatory sexual assault, rape, and kidnapping, Martinez's victims, a 30-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl, testified to his violent acts. The...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — As severe weather moved across Staten Island Thursday afternoon, a fire tore through the roof of a Rossville home — prompting an “all-hands” FDNY response. Neighbors said they heard a lightning strike nearby just before 3 p.m., and then noticed smoke rising...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The NYPD is asking for the public’s help to locate three teens sought for questioning in connection with shots fired in Port Richmond earlier this week. The incident occurred on Tuesday at about 6:15 p.m. in the 300 block of Port Richmond Avenue between...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — After being shuttered by the New York City Department of Health last month for “operating without a permit,” the Starbucks location at Empire Outlets in St. George has reopened for business, now displaying an “A” inspection grade. According to the NYC...

Crowds at Prospect Park station on Thursday, one day after commuters saw a body on the Brooklyn-bound platform. Commuters at the Prospect Park station during the morning rush were stunned to see a dead body, whose arm was dangling off the platform's edge. [ more › ]

Open since 2015 in East New York, Fusion East (1179 Elton Street, at Vandalia Avenue) has built the kind of following most restaurants dream about — and not just because of its jerk chicken wings, jerk salmon, chicken and waffles, and roti. Owner Andrew Walcott, a U.S. Air Force vet who also happens to be a corporate...

A Queens woman’s backyard and basement were flooded when a Long Island Rail Road retaining wall gave way during Thursday’s heavy rain.