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Folks who’d like to try camping at New York parks are getting the chance to do it this summer for free, courtesy of the state. New York launched a first-time…
A battle between two New York billionaires has been holding up a plan to replace a crumbling pier on Manhattan’s Hudson River waterfront with an avant-garde park on pilings rising…
The city’s Health Department has urged any Prospect Park visitors that have been bitten by a squirrel in the area of the park near the Parkside Avenue entrance since July…
Republican Gov. Chris Christie signed a law Friday making New Jersey the third state to raise its smoking age to 21. Christie cited the strain on the health care system…
A lawyer for former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is counting on the U.S. Supreme Court reviewing the case before the once-powerful politician endures a second trial on corruption…
Authorities say three people have been injured in a wreck that sent a car onto the sidewalk on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. It happened around 8:30 a.m. Saturday at East…
When federal prosecutors asked to meet last month with Eric Garner’s family, it stoked speculation that their investigation into his death was finally nearing a resolution three years after his…
A minor derailment in Brooklyn snarled service for some New York City subway riders. No injuries were reported after some wheels of a southbound Q train went off the track…
About 75,000 people who applied for New York’s first-in-the-nation tuition-free college program are finding out whether they will start the fall semester without a tuition bill to pay. “It feels…
New York transit officials are chewing on the notion of a subway snacking ban — and that’s heating up the political rhetoric. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is weighing food restrictions,…
Woman Finds Anniversary Band Among Tons of Garbage WOODMERE, N.Y. – A woman who accidentally threw out her diamond anniversary band after placing it in a paper towel found it…
Authorities say two men who were fishing in New Jersey have died after one got into trouble while swimming and the other tried to save him. Vineland police Lt. Steven…
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the state won’t tolerate landlords who refuse to rent to people because they have children. The Democrat announced Wednesday that he’s expanding an ongoing…
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he will take “every action that is necessary” to make sure New Jersey Transit train engineers show up for work after dozens of trains…
A western New York city won’t be getting state aid to cover the costs linked to a massive fire at a former steel plant last fall. The blaze started Nov.…
The New Jersey town where President Donald Trump has spent weekends at his golf course has received a designation by the Secret Service so it can be reimbursed by the…
A small plane that had taken off from a Long Island airport and was heading to New Jersey made a precautionary landing Wednesday afternoon on the Sunrise Highway. The Federal…
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a message for frustrated commuters on Long Island: Help is on the way. Speaking to a meeting of the Long Island Association Wednesday, the…
Fire Destroys Upstate NY Barn, Leaving Over 100 Cows Dead on Farm BEEKMANTOWN, N.Y. – More than 100 dairy cows and calves were killed Tuesday afternoon after a fire broke…
A man serving life in prison for murder has lost after appealing his sentence because of a paperwork error by a clerk. A New Jersey appeals court ruled Wednesday that…
