Weird

Peafowl, meaning males and females, left the Bronx Zoo on Memorial Day — and some didn’t come home. The Bronx Zoo says it picked up five of the rogue birds after seven ditched the park. They’re free-roaming, the zoo says, so they occasionally stray. They typically don’t go farther though and return on their own. One of the r...

The whale, identified as a sei whale, was caught on the ship’s bow when it arrived at the Port of Brooklyn on Saturday, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries spokesperson Andrea Gomez said.

A toll collector at the Jersey Shore called out of work after she said she had a feeling something bad was going to happen. Hours later, a garbage truck crashed into the toll plaza where she works.

Two men arrested in Newark are being called career criminals, but police say they aren’t stealing high-priced things like cars or jewelry. They’re allegedly swiping shopping carts, making off with tens of thousands of dollars worth of them.

The owner of an 34-year-old alligator seized by conservation officers near Buffalo, New York, is fighting for its return.

An ailing alligator was seized from an upstate New York home where it was being kept illegally, state officials said.

The 38-year-old crossed into New York with the hidden snakes on a bus from Montreal to New York City in 2018. The young adult snakes were hidden in the inner thigh of his pants in snake bags tied to the pants’ drawstring.

Westchester County fire crews responded to a farm after a fire alarm was set off. But there was no fire and no person had been near the fire alarm — it turns out to have just been some horse play

NJ Transit is asking for help finding the owner of a dog that boarded one of its trains a day ago. The adorable white pooch apparently followed someone, not his owner, onto a train at Mountain Station at the height of Thursday’s morning commute. It rode to Hoboken Terminal. NJ Transit officers checked around with colleagues near the Mountain....

Looking to get even with someone who dumped you? An animal shelter in New Jersey has a novel idea for the perfect gift for an ex.

A man with a gun terrorized a Long Island gas station employee after his debit card was denied, police said, wrecking the store and pointing a gun at the worker in order to allow him to pump some gas — but barely enough to even get a gallon’s worth.

New Jersey commuters had an exceptional start to their days when a bull on the tracks of Newark’s Penn Station delayed trains by 45 minutes.

Part of Long Island’s north shore turned bright red on Wednesday in reaction to a study testing wastewater, and while the images may look off-putting, scientists say there is nothing to fear. Researchers are examining the movement of treated wastewater from the Oyster Bay Village Wastewater Treatment Plant located within Oyster Bay Harbor, N....