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Authorities are investigating what caused a New York City bus to plunge off a bridge in dramatic fashion

New York City will sever all of its management contracts with the Trump Organization, costing the outgoing president millions of dollars in annual revenue, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday. De Blasio said the contracts allowed the city to break them if a vendor’s leadership broke the law, and said Trump’s “inciting an insurrection” was clearly a “criminal act.”...

One man is dead and two others are in the hospital after a shooting outside a hotel in Queens early on New Year’s Day, police say. Authorities say they got a call about the shooting outside hotel at 82nd Avenue and Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens about 1 a.m. When they arrived, they found three men with gunshot wounds....

Vandals tagged St. Patrick’s Cathedral with anti-police graffiti early on New Year’s Day, according to the NYPD. Police say they found the acronym “ACAB” tagged on the cathedral after responding to a protest on Fifth Avenue around 1 a.m. Video from the scene posted to Twitter shows protesters blocking two NYPD cruisers — both of which had lights and...

Two New York City children — ages 12 and 7 — who were reported missing after allegedly taking off in one of their parents’ Range Rovers have been found near the New Jersey/Delaware border, the NYPD said Monday afternoon. The kids are cousins, police said. Cops at the 106th Precinct received a call from one of their parents at around…

Authorities in New York City say the co-owner of a bar that was defying coronavirus restrictions was arrested early Sunday after running over a deputy with his car.

New Yorkers who have been notified by contact tracers that they may have been exposed to COVID-19, have started receiving free at-home coronavirus test kits, a new tool particularly important ahead of the upcoming holidays. The city of New York has said the latest effort is part of its overall goal to manage, and ultimately halt, the spread of COVID-19,…

A woman who has already been arrested once for throwing paint on the Black Lives Matter mural in front of Trump Tower was arrested again for doing exactly the same thing. Police say 39-year-old Juliet Germanotta acted alone this time in vandalizing the mural on Fifth Avenue. She was caught on camera Wednesday on her knees, spreading blue paint all…

Two people were arrested after throwing blue paint on the Black Lives Matter mural in midtown — the second time in a week the Fifth Avenue mural has been defaced

Two people were arrested after throwing blue paint on the Black Lives Matter mural in midtown — the second time in a week the Fifth Avenue mural has been defaced

New York City has painted a sprawling “Black Lives Matter” mural on Fifth Avenue directly in front of Trump Tower — a project President Donald Trump blasted as a “symbol of hate” when he first learned about it. The artwork was supposed to be done last week but was delayed a few days; it had been completed by Thursday afternoon….

President Donald Trump blasted New York City’s plan to paint the phrase “Black Lives Matter” on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower, calling it a “symbol of hate” and demanding the city spend the money on policing instead. NYC officials said last week they would emulate other cities and paint the message in large letters on a prominent...

Doctors who treated some of the earliest cases of the COVID-related illness that has sickened more than 200 children in the tri-state have shared what they found and what they learned about the condition

Dr. James Schneider, who has been on the front lines treating treating pediatric MIS-C patients, said that the cases come down to “good old fashioned critical care.”

As the number of children admitted to hospitals with pediatric multi-system inflammatory disease continues to rise, parents are watching their children closely. But the symptoms can vary from child to child.

A 9-year-old boy in an upstate New York region with relatively few cases of coronavirus is recovering from a rare inflammatory syndrome thought to be related to the virus

New leases for Manhattan apartments plunged by 71% in April, and vacancies soared as the rental market froze amid the coronavirus pandemic and more residents left the city, according to a new report.

Even after accounting for confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases, New York City still experienced more than 5,000 extra deaths from mid-March to early May that may be directly or indirectly linked to the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday. New York City’s official death toll from confirmed COVID-19 infections tops 14,000, and “probable” cases account for…

New York City subways will be shut down for four hours overnight, each night, to allow the MTA to disinfect every single car on every single train in its fleet, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday. The move comes days after the governor described the deteriorating transit conditions as a “disgusting” affront to the essential workers who use trains to get…

New COVID-19 hospitalizations in New York state averaged under 1,000 a day for the first time this month Tuesday and stayed there Wednesday, the latest sign of slowly decreasing pressure on the health care system. In the city, emergency rooms are less crushed. A week ago, New York City hospitals were admitting more than 200 virus patients a day. That…