New York City

A white woman called the NYPD and accused a black man of threatening her and her dog after an exchange that started when the man asked the woman to leash her dog in Central Park.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday to kick off morning trading. It signaled the opening of the trading floor on Wall Street for the first time in two months after the coronavirus outbreak had forced all-electronic trading

Their city is under siege, their age group at particular risk and their lives increasingly isolated — but every Monday morning, one group of older New Yorkers is finding plenty to laugh about

The Bronx remains one of the places hit hardest by the COVID-19 outbreak, and very few places have been hit as hard as Co-Op City

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

Police responding to a call about criminal mischief at a Harlem building found an emotionally disturbed man in his 30s setting fire to a ninth-floor hallway, officials say. Once cops subdued him, they found a body in an open apartment. The initial call to the building on 120th Street came in around 4:20 a.m. Saturday. The man was said to…

Police unions are livid and demanding New York City’s Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot resign or be fired after she reportedly gave an emphatic rejection when the NYPD sought more face masks for officers.

New York City issued an initial health alert early last week after identifying more than a dozen children in city hospitals with the rare illness; now up to 100 cases have been identified statewide. Five children have died

New York City has identified more than a dozen children in city hospitals who have a rare illness connected to COVID-19 — and at least one expert believes there are sure to be more

New York City has identified more than a dozen children in city hospitals who have a rare illness connected to COVID-19 — and at least one expert believes there are sure to be more

Amid new concerns about the possible impact of COVID-19 on children, Mount Sinai Hospital is confirming reports by NBC New York that they are seeing new and unusual COVID-19 related illness in several pediatric patients. The hospital’s chief of pediatric critical care is now issuing a warning to parents to be on the lookout for certain symptoms. And doctors...

Last week, for the first time in New York’s history, the trains stopped running in a planned shutdown

A nurse for a New York City hospital was arrested Thursday after allegedly stealing a dying coronavirus patient’s credit card and using it for gas and groceries.

New York has partnered with New Jersey and Connecticut to launch a tri-state contact tracing program, with help from former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, with the goal of preventing a future surge of COVID-19 infections, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday during his daily coronavirus briefing. The program with a baseline of 30 contact tracers for every 100,000 individuals…

The nation mourned this week when Dr. Lorna Breen, a New York emergency room doctor who battled to save the lives of coronavirus patients, died by suicide.

Around 50 bodies were discovered inside as many as four different storage vehicles over the past few days.

A top New York City emergency room doctor died from suicide after treating COVID-19 patients, her father told NBC News.

The Supreme Court has sidestepped a major decision on gun rights in a dispute over New York City’s former ban on transporting guns

Nearly two months after ending his presidential campaign, Mike Bloomberg is again deploying his massive personal fortune – this time to combat the coronavirus

Sports may be on hold for now, but the rivalry between Boston and New York lives on in their bird populations. Pigeons from Boston and New York City are genetically different and do not mix, unlike others, according to a new study out of Fordham University. The study examined the DNA of pigeons across the Northeast. Researchers Elizabeth Carlen and…