NEW YORK (AP) — The streets are eerily quiet. Barely a soul walks by. But when Rabbi Shmuel Plafker arrives at the cemetery, it’s buzzing: Vans pulling in with bodies aboard, mounds of dirt ...

White people in New York City report smoking marijuana at a higher rate than black and Latinx city residents, though the vast majority of people arrested for low-level marijuana-related crimes are ...

Volunteers formed a human assembly line in the basement of a Williamsburg church on a recent morning, donning N95 and surgical face masks and sanitized latex gloves as they filled to-go containers ...

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On the front lines of the war on COVID-19, there are many civilian heroes going out of their way, as volunteers and contributors. Also, many who are elected to serve are going the extra mile.

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CITYWIDE — NYC’S WEBSITE SET UP to distribute 10,000 tickets to prime July 4 fireworks viewing crashed within 5 minutes Wednesday after more than a million people tried to log on, Gothamist ...

The future of sustainable cities might begin in Brooklyn. New Lab, the 84,000-square-foot innovation hub in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, announced last week it will host the 2020 iteration of an annual ...

There’s a new Democratic political club in Brooklyn geared towards the civically engaged, and it bears the name of Brooklyn’s late feminist icon, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

SRI LANKA — Ship fire: Impoverished Sri Lankans salvaged pieces of a wreck that washed ashore from burning Singaporean ship MV X-Press Pearl, which was anchored off Colombo port at Kapugoda, on ...

CITYWIDE — A REPORT RELEASED Tuesday by the NYC Health Department found that roughly 350 city residents die from heat-related causes each year. According to the 2024 New York City Heat-Related ...

One person is dead and two are critically injured after a hammer-wielding attacker smashed his way through a Sheepshead Bay restaurant on Tuesday evening. According to police, a 34-year-old man ...