New research indicates that the tolling program has helped people reach the hospital faster during life-threatening emergencies.

A decade ago, corrections officers in New York state prisons used pepper spray 124 times over the course of a year. But by 2024, the year Robert Brooks was murdered by guards while incarcerated at a ...

Saint Vitus, the popular Greenpoint metal bar and performance space that suddenly shuttered in early 2024, has found a new home in Bushwick. In an Instagram video published Friday, Saint Vitus ...

Three New Yorkers died in their homes from heat-related illness over the weekend, at the tail end of a historic heatwave, according to the mayor’s office. The heat wave lasted from Wednesday through ...

Regular swimmers can also take part in a summer-long lap swim competition by recording the number of laps with an Aquatics Specialist at each pool deck ...

Zoo officials said they traveled to a Tennessee elephant sanctuary in June to assess its suitability for their 57-year-old elephant named Patty following years of pressure from animal rights activists ...

Because Chad Caruso did what he does, here are your afternoon links: Queer sex at Orchard Beach, World Cup fan zone at Rockefeller Center, red-tailed hawk in Central Park and more.

Cases of Legionnaires’ disease are mounting on the Upper East Side of Manhattan as city health officials work to identify the source of the outbreak, which was first announced late last week. So far, ...

In 2025, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's Police Accountability Unit secured convictions against four officers, a spokesperson said.

Because a whale hit and sank a New Jersey fire rescue boat, here are your early links: Knicks murals everywhere, 57,000 vacant rent-stabilized apartments, rich people's snow rooms and more.

More heavy rain and thunderstorms are bearing down on New York City as the region continues to cope with scattered power outages and flooding left behind by strong July 4 weekend storms. Multiple ...

More than 8,000 New York City households were evicted from their apartments in the first half of the year amid a deep affordable housing crisis that has fueled record-high rents citywide. City records ...