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The two twisters that tore through Queens and Brooklyn left a 14-mile path of destruction, forcing many people to spend their weekend cleaning up the downed trees and debris, CBS 2's Jay Dow reports.
The National Weather Service confirmed Friday that two tornadoes and a macroburst struck the New York City area on Thursday evening.
The one city block with the most severe structual damage from Thursday's storm was Quincy Street in Bedford Stuyvesant. The NYC Buildings Department was on the scene where six row houses suffered major damage.
A brief but severe storm swept through New York City Thursday afternoon, uprooting trees and damaging cars.
Residents in Bay Ridge say they sometimes wake up gagging from the stink.
Two brazen burglars in Brooklyn apparently picked the wrong house to break into – on the other side of the door, they found a retired schoolteacher with a licensed, and loaded, gun.
Lawyers reached a plea bargain Tuesday under which a Serb college basketball player charged with beating an American student into a coma would serve about two years in prison in his homeland, potentially ending a case that had strained relations with the U.S.
A deal is expected in the trial of Miladin Kovacevic, who is charged with beating a college student from Brooklyn into a coma, according to an AP source.
Lemrick Nelson was found outside his car in upper Manhattan with a stab wound in his head.
The Brooklyn parents whose daughter died of an asthma attack when a police officer failed to perform CPR are now mobilizing a movement to require officers to take action, and to be prosecuted if they don't.
A black man convicted in the death of a white Jewish scholar during race riots in the 1990s has been stabbed in the head with an ice pick in a possible road rage attack, police say.
Police said she was riding on Atlantic Avenue near Prospect Heights when she was clipped by a car door that sent her reeling into the path of an MTA bus.
A secret recording made in a Brooklyn police station reportedly caught supervisors discussing ticket quotas.
32-year-old Shellyann Henry apparently became enraged and confronted her husband when she found a pornographic DVD in their home on Wilson Ave.
Foxy Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, pleaded not guilty to criminal contempt. She could face up to one year in jail.
Among other things, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio wants to know whether a decision to reduce family services contributed to the Sept. 2 death of Marchella Pierce.
New York City's Department of Transportation will conduct a 5-month study on the feasibility of bringing back the quaint-looking trolley to the streets of Red Hook.
In Brooklyn, there's a murder case that the victim's family hopes does not become a cold case. They are hoping to keep the investigation alive by offering a reward in hopes that a witness will come forward.
The NYPD says Jacqueline Wesley-Rosa, 49, was arrested Wednesday on murder and criminal possession of a weapon charges.
Police are investigating the shooting of a 55-year-old East New York woman found dead early Wednesday morning on Linwood Street.
A former NYPD officer admitted in court Wednesday that he was drunk when he struck and killed a Brooklyn woman last year. Then he made an emotional apology to his victim's family.
At a secret locaton in an industrial no-man's land in Brooklyn is the nerve center for the NYPD's war on terrorism.
Blaming a budget crunch, City officials cut bus service to all 7th and 8th graders, leaving about 3,000 students in need of another way to school.
The search is on for a rooftop gunman who shot and killed a man who was on the job as a deliveryman.
