NY to produce its own hand sanitizer

Due to shortages and reports of price gouging, New York is starting to produce its own hand sanitizer brand that will be sold at reduced prices

Manhattan woman is first coronavirus case in New York

A 39-year-old healthcare worker who had traveled to Iran and is the first coronavirus case in New York City is recovering at her home in Manhattan, said NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Monday.

Two teens indicted as adults for the murder of Barnard student

A third suspect turned himself in to police Wednesday in connection with the stabbing death of a Barnard College student.

Police: 14-year-old suspect held in Barnard College student death

A 14-year-old has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of a Barnard College student in a Manhattan park in December, authorities said Saturday.

Outrage after gunman ambushes NYPD officers twice in 12 hours

A gunman is in custody after he ambushed NYPD officers in the Bronx twice in 12 hours, wounding two in attacks that ignited outrage from officials who blamed the violence on an atmosphere of anti-police rhetoric.

Crowd lifts vehicle to free trapped woman

Video has gone viral of an SUV being lifted by people on the Lower East Side as they apparently free a woman trapped below.

New York teen discovers a planet 1,300 light-years away

Sifting through a mound of data from a telescope orbiting Earth, a teenaged intern at NASA discovered a planet some 1,300 light-years away.

Video in apparent Epstein suicide attempt is lost, US says

Video footage of the area around Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell on a day he survived an apparent suicide attempt “no longer exists,” federal prosecutors told a judge Thursday.

Transgender boy sues New York over sex on birth certificate

A 14-year-old high school boy born in Ithaca, N.Y., who now lives in Houston, Texas, is suing New York state over his birth certificate, which lists him as female.

Cuomo helps rescue man from crash on highway

Gov. Andrew Cuomo helped remove a man from a truck after a crash along the BQE Monday.

Solidarity march in New York draws thousands in wake of anti-Semitic attacks

Thousands of demonstrators walked solemnly across the Brooklyn Bridge in a solidarity march Sunday against anti-Semitism and all acts of hate.

New York City ramps up security after Iranian general is killed

The mayor of New York City has ordered the NYPD to take immediate steps to protect key locations across the city after a U.S. airstrike killed Iran's top general.

New York politician who warned about driving drunk is charged with it

The arrest came just a week after the New York assemblyman wrote a newspaper column warning citizens against getting behind the wheel drunk.

Hello 2020! Times Square partied hard to welcome in new decade

Couples kissed. Others cheered and waved balloons as fireworks burst into the night sky and confetti fell to welcome the start of 2020 in Times Square.

Thousands of cops, street closures, more ahead of 2020 ball drop

New York City’s counterterrorism czar expects Times Square to be "the safest place on the planet Earth" on New Year's Eve.

Jewish leaders urge action after 'senseless' Hanukkah attack

When a suspect walked into the home of a rabbi celebrating Hanukkah and stabbed five celebrants it was the latest in a week of anti-Semitic attacks in the nation’s most demographically diverse area.

Woman charged with hate crime amid anti-Semitic attacks in NYC

A woman accused in one of a series of apparently anti-Semitic attacks throughout New York during Hanukkah was charged Saturday with attempted assault as a hate crime, court records show.

Man, 60, dies after beating in $1 Christmas Eve mugging

A 60-year-old man who was punched and kicked during a $1 mugging on Christmas Eve has died, police said Saturday.