An official who oversees Washington D.C. police has been named the first ever inspector general of the New York Police Department.
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The choice between paper or plastic bags could soon come with a new burden in New York City: a 10-cent fee.
Despite the long-awaited onset of spring, the tri-state area can expect to get more snow this week as a ‘nor’easter’ is expected to hit the region tomorrow night. However, forecasters say, the area should be spared from the worst of the wintry spring storm.
Just days after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an aggressive plan to prevent traffic deaths, CBS 2 cameras caught the driver of a car carrying the mayor violating a number of traffic laws.
During an interview on MSNBC Wednesday, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio was confronted by the host, Chris Hayes, regarding a speech he gave last month to AIPAC. The host questioned the mayor as to why he proclaimed that defending the state of Israel is part of his job description as mayor of New York City.
New York City Councilman David Greenfield (D-Borough Park) is proposing a new law regarding snow removal for commercial and residential properties to protect pedestrians from accidents related to unshoveled sidewalks.
Yet another winter storm is set to push over the tri-state area Tuesday, and could add 2 to 4 more inches to what is already the third snowiest February ever recorded in New York City, forecasters say.
A nor’easter swirled into the tri-state early Thursday and hammered the region with heavy snow — 1 foot in some areas by the end of the morning rush — and shifted to mostly rain before another punch of snow comes overnight into Friday.
A 36-year-old pregnant woman was struck and killed by a snowplow in Brooklyn during Thursday’s storm, but doctors were able to save her baby, police said.
The barrage of snowstorms this winter has peppered potholes all over the region, derailing drivers, challenging road crews and spurring a boom in business for auto-repair shops.
A city bus and a box truck believed to have been stolen collided at Manhattan intersection early Wednesday, sending both vehicles onto the sidewalk and into scaffolding, killing the bus driver and injuring at least four other people, authorities said.
As much as a foot of snow could hit New York City and the surrounding area tonight, as the storm that has gridlocked the Southeast is coming north.
Due to an unusually harsh winter, alternate-side parking rules have been suspended a record number of times so far this year. But that hasn’t slowed the ticket writing: cops are writing tickets at nearly the same pace as in 2013 — and have even increased it in Brooklyn and two other boroughs.
On the heels of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement on Thursday that Staten Island-side users of the Verrazano Bridge will be receiving a reduced rate at the tolls, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and City Councilman Vincent J. Gentile revealed on Saturday that they are rolling out legislation of their own calling for fairness and equity in making sure that Brooklyn users of the bridge receive the same cuts.
It was snow, then it was ice, then it was frozen rain, then it was slush. The surface was slippery Wednesday no matter where you were in New York — or how you were trying to get around.
For many New Yorkers, crossing the street in the middle of the block or against the light is a way of life, part of an attitude that tells everybody, “I’m walkin’ here!”
Authorities have announced that human remains found at a Queens beach last week belong to Avonte Oquendo, a 14-year-old autistic boy who had gone missing nearly four months ago. The search for Avonte came to Crown Heights in early October, shortly after he had gone missing, but was called off after the reported sighting of him turned out to be unsubstantiated.
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