New York City

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, …

(NEW YORK) — New York City police say they have located a 14-year-old boy suspected of fatally stabbing a Barnard College freshman as she walked through a park near the school. Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison tweeted Thursday that the boy had been found …

SURE, we may not have the annual spectacle of the New Year Ball Drop of Times Square in New York City, but fret not: around these parts, theres plenty of options for fun and excitement to greet New Year 2020. Here are some of them. EASTWOOD CITY THE fut…

The Department of Investigation, which looks into misconduct in city agencies, said it couldnt determine whether Mayor de Blasio had personally authorized the delay, and it did not allege that the mayor had violated the law. But it concluded that the administ…

Former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg has reportedly severed ties with a company that used prison labor to place calls on behalf of Bloombergs presidential campaign, the Intercept reports. The Bloomberg campaign had contracted ProCom, a New Jerseybased c…

2. Patti Smiths Just Kids and Andre Agassis Open: An AutobiographyWhen I was a young person, I always thought I would grow up and be either an athlete or an artist. And then I realized ultimately that ballet was both of those things. So these memoirs really s…

The red velvet seats at the David H. Koch Theater were quickly filling up not with the usual ballet audience, but with squirming, shrieking and giggling elementary school students. On a Tuesday morning in December, the day after the first snow of the season,…

The drone inspections could alleviate staff shortages at NYC's building department while saving money. More importantly, they could save lives. The council proposal comes days after falling debris from a fined building killed architect Erica Tishman while she…