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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

Jessica Ramos announced her bid to become New York City mayor.

It’s always a busy week, we get it. We know certain types of stories tend to dominate the headlines and your newsfeeds. In the New York Schmear, we highlight the bigger feature-y news stories of the week you may have missed. Did you hear the one about NYC selling apartments on the Upper West Side for under $175,000? Or the…

Four people were injured Sunday afternoon at a Brooklyn subway stop in what started as officers’ attempts to apprehend a man accused of skipping the station turnstile. News 4’s Ida Siegal reports. 

The latest staffing shake-up within the Adams administration comes amid ongoing federal investigations into many of his top officials. News 4’s Ida Siegal reports.  

The police department confirmed multiple bystanders were shot, along with a suspect and responding officer. 

Four people were injured Sunday afternoon at a Brooklyn subway stop in what started as officers’ attempts to apprehend a man accused of skipping the station turnstile.