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City Council members are calling on the interim NYPD commissioner to look over the department’s misconduct rules following a report that penalties for officer misconduct were lowered in recent days. THE CITY reported that outgoing Commissioner Edward Caban watered down the penalties for police misconduct and abuses just three days before he r...

Is Colin Jost having cold feet? The “Saturday Night Live” star got candid about his headline-making buy with former co-star Pete Davidson when the duo purchased a decommissioned ferry two years ago. The comedians bought the former Staten Island ferry at auction in Jan. 2022 with plans of converting it into a floating bar and restaurant....

Survivors of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting will vote in their first presidential election in November. Some hope they will be able to bring about change.

Three separate overnight shootings left one person dead and several others injured Friday, according to police, who said two of the crime scenes were just blocks from each other. The NYPD said officers were investigating three shootings that all took place in less than three hours and come on the heels of two deadly shootings in the area days earli...

“Schitt’s Creek” stars Dan Levy and Eugene Levy looked great on the red carpet ahead of their cohosting gig at the 2024 Emmy Awards. 

Law enforcement officials are set to release new information about one of the victims whose remains were found along a coastal highway in New York’s Long Island more than a decade ago, a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings.

A 13-year-old boy was hospitalized Sunday morning after a driver allegedly struck the kid in a Queens neighborhood. Police and fire officials said the teen was hit around 10:30 a.m. in Jamaica, Queens, by the driver of a grey SUV who did not stick around at the scene. Medics treated the boy and transported him to Long Island Jewish Medical…...

More than 70 movies will screen at this year’s New York Film Festival, but there is one in particular that has the film community absolutely buzzing. “The Brutalist” is a 3 1/2-hour epic (which includes a 15-minute intermission) follows a Hungarian Jewish architect and World War II survivor, played by Adrien Brody, who flees to th...

A Long Island man was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for a 2021 wrong-way Brooklyn crash while high on PCP and marijuana that left a woman a quadriplegic, the local district attorney announced Thursday. Virgilio Rodriguez, 51 and of Rockville Center, was sentenced to 7 ½ to 15 years in prison after being convicted last month of…...

It’s going to be a superb final weekend of summer, officially. Whether you want to go hiking or lay out on the beach, you’ll have two great days to get outside.

Ahead of the 2022 school year, the education technology company 21stCentEd was seeking to expand its presence in New York City’s public schools. So they turned to a man, Terence Banks, whose new consulting firm promised to connect clients with top government stakeholders. Banks wasn’t a registered lobbyist. His day job, at the time, was...

Longtime drug cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has pleaded not guilty to U.S. narcotics trafficking charges.

The victim, who lives in Brooklyn Heights, got a phone call from an unknown man on July 9 in which he told her to take the large sum of money out of her bank account in exchange for fixing her computer, according to police