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Two former FDNY chiefs have been indicted on bribery, corruption and false statement offenses for allegedly conspiring to solicit and accept tens of thousands of dollars in bribe payments for giving preferential treatment to certain people and companies with safety inspection matters pending, federal prosecutors announced Monday. Anthony Saccavino,...

Jacoby Brissett and Aaron Rodgers will lead the Patriots and Jets into an AFC East battle on Thursday Night Football. Here’s how to watch the Week 3 game.

The trip to New York across the George Washington Bridge could be slower than usual during the Monday morning commute. As of 10:10 a.m., the Port Authority was reporting a delay of 60 minutes on the upper level to New York after a crash on the Cross Bronx Expressway. Drivers going across the GWB were being urged to use the…

Some public figures are honored with namesake buildings or monuments. Veteran broadcaster Connie Chung has a strain of marijuana and hundreds of Asian American women as legacies. Chung was contacted five years ago by a fellow journalist, Connie Wang, whose Chinese immigrant parents gave her the chance as a preschooler to pick an Americanized first ...

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.

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....

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