Video Shows Suspected Vandals Taking Control Of Stored Subway Train

A piece of newly viral video Saturday night showed a group of subway vandals striking again – this time sneaking onto a stored train and taking control of it.

• May 16, 2015

Transformer Explodes Outside Library At St. John's Staten Island Campus

Con Edison said lightning may be to blame for a transformer explosion and fire that broke out in the Staten Island campus of St. John's University.

• May 16, 2015

FRA Orders Safety Improvements For Amtrak As Derailment Investigation Continues

Amtrak said Saturday that it will cooperate, after the Federal Railroad Administration announced a crackdown following the fatal derailment in Philadelphia this week.

• May 16, 2015

Guitar Once Played By George Harrison Sells For $490,000 At Local Auction

A guitar that George Harrison played in 1963 – when Beatlemania was just beginning to take fight – sold for nearly half a million dollars at an auction at the Times Square Hard Rock Café this week.

• May 16, 2015

Man Dead After Being Hit By SUV On Eleventh Avenue; Probe Continues

Police continued to investigate late Saturday, after a man was struck and killed by a sport-utility vehicle that ended up on the sidewalk in Hell's Kitchen a night earlier.

• May 16, 2015

New York City Council Caucus Joins Push To Put Woman On $20 Bill

A campaign to get a woman's face on the $20 bill has gained steam online, and local politicians have also gotten involved.

• May 16, 2015

Fire Rips Through Shop On Boardwalk In Ocean City, New Jersey

An extra-alarm fire broke out in a shop on the boardwalk Saturday evening in Ocean City, New Jersey.

• May 16, 2015

Police: 18-Year-Old Arrested In Attack On Good Samaritan During Brooklyn McDonald's Brawl

The fight took place around 3 p.m. Thursday at the franchise on Flatbush Avenue Extension in Downtown Brooklyn.

• May 16, 2015

2 Sisters Adopted Separately Reunite At Columbia University Writing Class

Katy Olson figured out the connection when Lizzie Valverde introduced herself to the writing class and talked about being adopted.

• May 16, 2015

Woman Hit, Critically Injured By Cab In Midtown

A woman was struck and injured by a taxi Saturday afternoon at the busy intersection of 57th Street and Eighth Avenue in Midtown.

• May 16, 2015

Skydiver Dies After Accident Hitting Ground In Wantage, N.J.

A skydiver has died, after being seriously injured in a jump in Wantage, New Jersey earlier this week.

• May 16, 2015

Assemblyman Proposes Self-Service Gas Stations In New Jersey

For drivers born and raised in New Jersey, pumping your own gas is a foreign concept.

• May 16, 2015

Amtrak Derailment Victim Rachel Jacobs Remembered At Manhattan Memorial

Rachel Jacobs was remembered not only as a loving wife and mother, but also as a person who gave back again and again.

• May 16, 2015

Former Westchester Exec, Lieutenant Governor Alfred DelBello Dies

Former Westchester County executive and New York state lieutenant governor Alfred DelBello has died.

• May 16, 2015

NJ TRANSIT Riders: Proposed Fare Hikes Could Make For A Hardship

NJ TRANSIT riders had their first opportunity to express their views on possible rate hikes Saturday, and many were less than thrilled.

• May 16, 2015

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