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The officer, who has been suspended without pay after the confrontation on the boardwalk at Rockaway Beach, will face second-degree strangulation and attempted strangulation charges, police sources told NBC New York

The NYPD has suspended an officer without pay after a video surfaced Sunday afternoon that appeared to show the officer use the now banned chokehold technique to detain a man.

The NYPD has suspended an officer without pay after a video surfaced Sunday afternoon that appeared to show the officer use the now banned chokehold technique to detain a man.

Protesters applauded as members of the NYPD joined them in kneeling during a protest in Queens.

Adult film star Ron Jeremy is fighting to save a tree his father planted outside their New York home the day he was born

It took just five days for an overall healthy boy to go from playing games and singing to requiring a machine to help him breathe, unable to speak to his parents who tried to video chat with him from his hospital bed.

In hard-hit New York City, the coronavirus outbreak has taken a particularly heavy toll on Hispanic communities

A baby girl in New York City was born three months premature but the miracle of her birth may have saved the life of her mother — who was struggling to fight COVID-19. Tasnim Shaheen’s prognosis was grim when she was admitted to Jamaica Hospital in Queens on March 24 after she contracted the novel coronavirus, said OBGYN Dr. Kavitha…

Police say three teenagers are under arrest – and others are being sought – after an attack on a Bellevue nurse who had just recovered from COVID-19. The nurse, Martha Toscano of Queens, New York, was beaten and robbed by a gang of teens who chased her and knocked her to the ground as she left a 6 train stop,…

The site contained over 10,000 works of art, as some renderings were temporary and were eventually painted over with the permission of the artists.

If you thought the voice telling you to “stand clear of the closing doors, please” sounds familiar, you’re right.

Authorities are looking for a man who allegedly raped two women at a Queens spa, then tried to rape another at a wellness center just more than a month later, police said Tuesday.

Police say what appeared to be a dead infant found outside a park in Queens — a “child” that was declared dead by emergency personnel — turned out to be a realistic-looking doll made to look like a decomposing baby.

A transformer explosion in Queens created a buzz on social media when it caused the skies above New York City to glow bright blue.

A pair of bystanders broke a toddler’s fall after he fell from the third-floor fire escape of an apartment building, officials said.

A massive house fire in Queens killed three family members gathered to plan a wedding and sent eight more to the hospital with serious injuries, officials say.

A New York judge has awarded $6.7 million to graffiti artists who sued after their work was destroyed on 5Pointz buildings torn down to make room for luxury condos in Long Island City. “Wolkoff could care less. As he callously testified,” the judge said. “The sloppy, half-hearted nature of the whitewashing left the works easily visible under thin layers of...

In the tiny Detroit suburb of Northville, George Dimopoulos is known for his unlikely Thanksgiving tradition....
Every year for the last decade, he has invited people who are homeless or alone on Thanksgiving Day to his restaurant, George’s Senate Coney Island for a meal — free of charge. Outside Northville, however, the tradition was largely unknown. That was until a Reddit...