New York City

The train I usually returned on arrived at Grand Central around 11:30 p.m. I would dash to Madison Avenue and, with luck, grab a northbound M4 bus to take me to Broadway and 122nd Street. Over the course of the year, the bus I usually caught had the same dri…

Of those, 59 percent said they never reported the theft to the police, Professor Lee said. They would often say, When I have done it in the past, nothing ever happened, so why bother? According to workers and advocates, some delivery workers mistakenly conf…

A New York City Police Department officer resigned on Thursday, more than a year after he was charged for allegedly breaking into a woman's home, threatening her and yelling racial slurs.

Here's the latest from bored holiday Twitter: A tweet about the "best seat" on the New York City subway (if such a seat exists) now has people debating the best place to sit in all sorts of settings. On Tuesday, @gplatinum tweeted a photo of a D train, which…

At the time, Ms. Halliburton testified, she was lying in bed talking with her youngest son in her house in Nashvilles 12 South section. I could hear, like, someone, like, yelling, she said. Looking out a window, her son saw a man who turned out to be Office…

Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg said this week that he has “no idea” what his stance is regarding the wrongful conviction of the Central Park Five and how New York City police bungled case. “I’ve been away from it for so long, I just real…

Authorities gather on a street in Monsey, N.Y., Sunday following a stabbing late Saturday during a Hanukkah celebration. Allyse Pulliam/AP A man attacked Hanukkah celebrants who had gathered at the home of a Hasidic rabbi in a New York City suburb on Saturd…

Several people have been stabbed at a house close to a synagogue in New York state, reports say. The house in Monsey, north of New York city, belonged to a rabbi, according to the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council. At least five people, all Jewish, wer…

Some Jewish neighborhoods of New York City will see an increase in police presence in response to a string of recent attacks, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday. Police will be deployed to the Boro Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg neighborhoods of Bro…

Orthodox Jewish men carry Moshe Deutsch's casket outside a Brooklyn synagogue following his funeral earlier this month. Deutsch was killed in a shooting inside a Jersey City, N.J., kosher food market. Mark Lennihan/AP Facing a rash of anti-Semitic attacks, …