Violent crime in the nation's largest city has hit a two-decade low, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday. The number of homicides in the past four months was down 7 percent compared with the same time frame last year; the number of robberies dropped 14 percent.
Two New York boys were rescued after being trapped under several feet of snow for hours after being buried by a snow plow on Wednesday, police said. The 9 and 11-year-old were building a snow fort in a built-up mound in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Newburgh.
Residents in Buffalo, New York endured a fresh coating of snow that began falling Thursday morning right after another ferocious snow storm left 10 people dead and over five feet of snow accumulation.
On Tuesday, police picked up Kevin Darden, a man accused of shoving a stranger in front of a New York subway train on Sunday, near his mother's home in the Bronx.
Pope Francis has confirmed he will visit the United States in September 2015. Pope Francis is coming to the United States. "I wish to confirm according to the wishes of the Lord, that in September of 2015, I will go to Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families.
According to a spokesperson for the New York Police Department, Buddy Valastro, the star of TLC's reality series "Cake Boss," was arrested early Thursday morning in New York City and charged with drunken driving.
A Manhattan prosecutor is putting up as much as $35 million of his office's funds to help overcome a backlog in the testing of rape kits across the nation.
The New York Fire Department on Wednesday rescued two window washers who had been trapped on a scaffolding 69 stories up the side of New York City's newly inaugurated 1 World Trade City.
One lucky lottery player is walking the streets of Middletown, New York with the winning ticket that matched the Mega Millions numbers drawn on November 4.
One World Trade Center opens Monday in Lower Manhattan for its first tenant, publisher Conde Nast, to move in, reports CNN. The publisher is moving 3,400 staffers into 24 stories, from floors 20 through 44. The skyscraper opens 13 years after the World Trade Center Twin Towers were destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001.
A study released Thursday shows that nearly a third of shrimp products are being misrepresented. A study released Thursday shows that nearly a third of shrimp products are being misrepresented.
NBC's "30 Rock" stood a little taller along with its top execs from NBCUniversal, Telemundo Network, mun2, Digital Media & Emerging Businesses for they have scored a major goal by becoming the official Spanish-Language home of the FIFA World Cup in the U.S. - and they plan to make history by upping the ante on digital and mobile platforms utilized most by Latinos in the U.S.
A Doctors Without Borders physician is the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in New York. A Doctors Without Borders physician is the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in New York.
A man from Upstate New York was awarded over $41 million, which is believed to be the largest sum from a lawsuit in U.S. history, by a federal jury who found that he was wrongly convicted of rape.
