New York City

A man was shot just prior to 4 p.m. Sunday near New York City’s Cathedral of Saint John the Divine after allegedly firing on officers. The New York Times reports that church was scheduled to hold a “Christmas caroling event about 45 minutes before the shooting.” Manhattan borough president Gale…

Katie Sobko   | NorthJersey.com WOODLAND PARK, N.J. –  A woman has been arrested and charged with reckless endangerment after driving her car into protesters Friday in New York City, injuring six of them, police said.Kathleen Casillo, 52, was released from custody after being given a notice to appear in court at a later…

Emergency services respond to a scene where pedestrians were struck by a car during a protest in New York on Friday. Photo: AP A spokesman for the New York Police Department said the driver, a woman, had stayed at the scene and was in custody The demonstrators were protesting against…

Several pedestrians were injured, one seriously, when a vehicle accelerated and struck them during a demonstration Friday afternoon in New York City, authorities said.A fire official told NBC News that six others suffered minor injuries.The collision, reported shortly after 4 p.m., happened at East 39th Street and Third Avenue in…

New York City will close indoor dining on Monday in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday. Why it matters: Hospitalizations have continued to increase in New York City, a metric that Cuomo said the state would watch to determine whether tighter restrictions…

New York City restaurants must stop indoor dining on Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday.  The US' largest city has seen an uptick in infections recently as the US struggles with record levels of spread.  Cuomo also called on Congress to include restaurants and bars in further economic aid packages. …

If there is a photo of the former New York City mayor David Dinkins campaigning, or walking up or down the City Hall steps, it is a good bet that Arnie Segarra is in the picture, usually close on Dinkins’s heels. He is the tall, slim man with a mop…

Last Wednesday, Timnit Gebru, a staff research scientist and co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence team at Google, said that she had been ousted from the company over a research paper she co-authored and submitted for review. According to Gebru’s account, a manager had asked her to recant or remove…

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is weighing a potential bid for New York City mayor by calling elected officials to measure support for his run, Politico reported Tuesday. Yang is also reportedly talking with Tusk Strategies, the firm that worked with former Mayor Mike Bloomberg during his successful 2009…

“We’re working on the line and shoulder-to-shoulder. We have no space on the line, in the break-room, and in the lockers,” Sarah Seibert, who debones hams at a Smithfield’s Food plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, told the Worker Institute at Cornell University in a May interview about the workplace…