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We know, we know: why mess with a good thing? And a good plate of french fries is better than a good thing—it's a great thing. But sometimes you need to go beyond the spud, and throw something else in the fryer.
A perfect serving of soft serve swirls around and around, then finishes with a flourish, the very end touching the almost-but-not-quite pyramid of flavor, an infinite loop of effervescent creaminess. It can be dipped, it can be topped, it demands to be licked.
One of the golden couples of Hollywood – who got married in a lavish ceremony in Manhattan 13 years ago -- may be splitting.
Ordering pad thai is like ordering the margherita pizza: it offers a good benchmark for a kitchen abilities. The thrilling, filling mix of stir-fried rice noodles, peanuts, egg, and fish sauce is a staple of both Thai street food and NYC restaurants. Here are our picks for the city's best versions.
Freeze your brain, and cool your body, with one of these icy delights, including an all-natural slush, a traditional Filipino dessert, and a beer-flavored ice cream sandwich, some of the best sweet bites in New York City.
Over the past few weeks, we've cataloged the city's best bacon dishes and best bacon desserts. We conclude this bacon-focused series not with a trip to the cardiologist but with a look at New York's best bacon cocktails.
While there's nothing wrong with a wedge of good old-fashioned cherry a la mode or a bit of coconut cream with extra whipped cream, sometimes you want to give your taste buds a zap. Enter these restaurants, all of which offer unique, and yummy, pies.
Despite its strides into the mainstream, street art still tends to be mostly a man's game. These six artists are some of the best around, working in diverse styles and media, portraying a range of experiences and messages, pushing the boundaries of urban art in New York City. And they just happen to be women.
Violence in the overnight hours left at least four people dead and several others injured throughout the city.
The Department of Sanitation wants to build a garage on the site of a soon-to-be empty medical building at 26th Street and First Avenue, featuring 400,000 square feet with room for 150 sanitation vehicles.
The smoke was caused by a broken freon line, the Fire Department said. There were no injuries.
Two pedestrians were killed, and three others were injured, in four separate accidents this weekend in three boroughs of New York City.
The suspects have been described as a pair of Hispanic males, each about 6-foot and weighing between 180 and 200 pounds. One suspect has a tattoo on his left forearm.
After chef Dominique Ansel introduced the Cronut™ to the world, people went crazy for this half-croissant, half-doughnut hybrid, with some folks getting in line in front of his eponymous SoHo bakery as early as 4am. If you don't feel like getting up before dawn, check out the restaurants below. While they don't make Cronuts, what they do make is sure to satisfy just the same.
Indian buffets let you eat cheaply and well, offering a variety of meat and meatless dishes full of textures and spice. Our five favorites follow. They're all-you-can-eat, oft-changing, and just plain good.
When it's too hot to eat, slurp. A nice soup serves as the perfect antidote to long, sweaty days. And we're not talking about pureed ice cream, although that does make for a pleasant soupy treat. Here are five of our favorite, most refreshing summer soups, four chilled and one not.
Tax documents from 1931 and a building lease from as recently as the 1990s were among the items in a safe linked to Susan B. Anthony in Manhattan Tuesday.
In some ways, falafel is the world's most perfect food and, made from chickpeas, it's reasonably healthy. Read on for our picks of the city's best falafel restaurants.
Several forts still stand in the New York City area. Although they are no longer used to protect the city, their power to inspire slack-jawed awe remains. Among the best preserved and most interesting are the six listed below.
What soda ban? Artisanal soda is a revelation. Gone is the sticky, syrupy, chemically bite of so many mass-produced beverages, replaced with colors found in nature, refreshing, natural bubbles, and real fruit flavor. Read on for five of our favorite purveyors of this good stuff.
You can see street art anytime you want just by roaming the roads and avenues of Williamsburg, Bushwick, and Chelsea, among other neighborhoods in New York. Or you can visit one of the galleries listed below, all of which are committed to showing work by up-and-coming or established artists who got their start on the street.
1010 WINS' Sonia Rincon, CBS 2's Maurice DuBois, WCBS Radio 880's Steve Scott and El Diario/La Prensa's Marlene Peralta were on the panel of local news reporters to listen to voters from Manhattan.
CBS 2's Maurice DuBois, WCBS 880's Steve Scott, 1010 WINS' Sonia Rincon and El Diario/La Prensa's Marlene Peralta were on hand as Manhattan residents raised the issues that mattered most to them.
While many restaurants in New York City have close relationships with farmers, and boast unimpeachable farm-to-table ethics, far fewer have actual gardens wherein they grow the produce that's used on their plates.
In Manhattan, we can have almost any kind of food delivered at all times of the day and night, but what about delivery from restaurants that don't deliver or non-food places?
Carson Benge delivered his first big league walk-off hit, a 10th-inning single, lifting the Mets past the Tigers 3-2 on Wednesday night.
The NYPD is investigating after someone raised a swastika flag on the campus of New York University on Wednesday.
A Bronx neighborhood was on edge Wednesday night after a 5-year-old girl was grazed on the ear by a stray bullet.
Nicolás Fernández scored a goal in the eighth minute, Matt Freese had his fourth shutout this season, and New York City FC beat Charlotte FC 1-0 on Wednesday night.
New York City Public Schools is finalizing a policy on artificial intelligence, a technology that has many parents greatly concerned.
The NYPD is investigating after someone raised a swastika flag on the campus of New York University on Wednesday.
A Bronx neighborhood was on edge Wednesday night after a 5-year-old girl was grazed on the ear by a stray bullet.
New York City Public Schools is finalizing a policy on artificial intelligence, a technology that has many parents greatly concerned.
Five months into Mayor Zohran Mamdani's term, a group of New York City's more moderate power brokers have announced plans to raise money, file lawsuits and work against the democratic socialist.
Citing affordable housing as New York City's number one crisis, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a plan to cut red tape and make it easier for New Yorkers to find a home.
The weather on Wednesday will be a mix of sunshine and clouds with the potential for a shower in New York City. In the evening, rain becomes more widespread.
An unsettled pattern continues through the entire Mother's Day weekend in the New York City area.
After summer-like warmth, rainy weather and cooler temperatures return to the New York City area mid-week.
A cool weekend is ahead for the New York City area before warmer weather returns.
Some residual showers may linger into early Sunday morning, but the majority of the rainfall should be over by sunrise.
The weather on Wednesday will be a mix of sunshine and clouds with the potential for a shower in New York City. In the evening, rain becomes more widespread.
The cost of NJ Transit and NYC bus tickets to World Cup matches was lowered Tuesday. This comes as the city is also creating a new bus lane that officials say will help fans.
With just weeks to go until the start of the FIFA World Cup, hotels across the Tri-State Area are racing to cash in on the tourism boom.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill Tuesday rolled out a new plan to tackle some of the most common complaints about NJ Transit.
The Associated Press projects incumbent Ras Baraka, a progressive Democrat, will win a fourth term as the mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
At least one shot was fired in Port Washington during a police pursuit Wednesday, police sources tell CBS News New York.
Team officials announced there will be additional shuttles departing from Long Island if the Long Island Rail Road is shut down due to a strike.
The weather on Wednesday will be a mix of sunshine and clouds with the potential for a shower in New York City. In the evening, rain becomes more widespread.
"McMansions" are now banned in the Long Island town of Levittown, America's first suburb. The decision was made following heated hearings that took place over multiple meetings.
Talks to avert an LIRR strike are set to continue Wednesday. The strike, if it happens, could begin as soon as midnight on Saturday.
Five months into Mayor Zohran Mamdani's term, a group of New York City's more moderate power brokers have announced plans to raise money, file lawsuits and work against the democratic socialist.
Citing affordable housing as New York City's number one crisis, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a plan to cut red tape and make it easier for New Yorkers to find a home.
Team officials announced there will be additional shuttles departing from Long Island if the Long Island Rail Road is shut down due to a strike.
NYU Langone is warning patients that the hospital has been subpoenaed by the Justice Department to provide information on patients under 18 who received gender-affirming care, as well as the healthcare providers who treated them.
President Trump said before he left that he and President Xi Jinping "have a lot of things to discuss."
A New York native is among 16 American passengers who are quarantining in Nebraska after being on the cruise ship that is at the center of the deadly hantavirus outbreak.
American passengers on the MV Hondius cruise ship, which was hit with a deadly outbreak of the hantavirus, are back in the U.S. Three of the at least 10 people confirmed infected in the outbreak have died.
Three New Yorkers are among the 18 people being quarantined in Nebraska and Atlanta due to hantavirus concerns.
An American on the repatriation flight began showing symptoms of hantavirus and another "tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus," the Department of Health and Human Services says.
More than 100 people from a cruise ship dealing with an outbreak of the rare and deadly hantavirus are set to be disembarked.
The well-known film critic and journalist Rex Reed has died at 87.
"The Pitt" star Isa Briones is bringing heightened pride and Filipino presence to both stage and screen.
Broadway's "The Book of Mormon" has canceled two weeks of performances following a fire at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
Uzo Aduba and Darren Criss announced the 2026 Tony nominees for select categories on "CBS Mornings" on Tuesday.
Rihanna, Sabrina Carpenter, Madonna, and Beyoncé all wore their best looks to celebrate the "Costume Art" theme at the 2026 Met Gala. Here are some of the best moments, photos, and more from the night.
Carson Benge delivered his first big league walk-off hit, a 10th-inning single, lifting the Mets past the Tigers 3-2 on Wednesday night.
Nicolás Fernández scored a goal in the eighth minute, Matt Freese had his fourth shutout this season, and New York City FC beat Charlotte FC 1-0 on Wednesday night.
Kyle Bradish pitched six one-hit innings, Adley Rutschman homered, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Yankees 7-0 on Wednesday after New York lost left-hander Max Fried.
The cost of NJ Transit and NYC bus tickets to World Cup matches was lowered Tuesday. This comes as the city is also creating a new bus lane that officials say will help fans.
A.J. Ewing gave the Mets just the offensive jolt they were looking for throughout his impressive major league debut Tuesday night, a 10-2 victory over the sloppy Tigers.
City Council members say requirement for transparent roll-down gates is burdensome for small businesses ahead of the July 1 enforcement deadline.
For more than four decades, residents living beside Brooklyn's District 13 Sanitation Garage in Coney Island have been waiting for the facility to move away from their homes.
There's a swim club in Harlem teaching kids a lifesaving skill, and they're turning timid swimmers into competitors.
The Davis Center at the Harlem Meer is celebrating one year of providing year-round recreation space to New Yorkers while still spreading the word to residents.
Residents displaced by a deadly apartment building fire in Inwood say it was only a matter of time before their building went up in flames.
People dressed in elaborate headgear and paraded up Fifth Avenue for New York City's Easter Sunday tradition.
The Halloween tradition strolled through Manhattan's East Village on Sunday, with furry friends dressed in colorful costumes.
A suspect was taken into custody after an attack on Pearl Street Mall in Boulder on June 1 in which there were 15 people and a dog who were victims. The suspect threw Molotov cocktails that burned some of the victims, who were part of a march for Israeli hostages.
The annual Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival was held in Manhattan on April 20, 2025.
A look back at the esteemed personalities who've left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.
However, CBS News New York's Lonnie Quinn says Saturday is shaping up as a true spring stunner.
CBS News New York's Kristine Johnson spoke to one man who said he learned this lesson the hard way.
CBS News New York's Adi Guajardo spoke to witnesses who heard gunfire and saw chaos unfold.
Police said it happened Wednesday evening at the Gershwin Theatre, home to "Wicked." CBS News New York's Naveen Dhaliwal has the latest.
CBS News New York's Naomi Ruchim spoke with students, and has the university’s response.
