FDNY Battles 5-Alarm Blaze At Commercial Building In Harlem
The fire broke out around 3 a.m. Wednesday on Lenox Avenue near East 135th Street.
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The fire broke out around 3 a.m. Wednesday on Lenox Avenue near East 135th Street.
Adams will be the city's second Black mayor. The first was David Dinkins, who defeated Ed Koch in 1989.
"I am you," Adams told cheering supporters after New York City voters elected him as the next mayor.
Bragg will only be the fourth Manhattan district attorney elected in the last 80 years, and he's the first African-American in that role.
Since Monday, 2,000 more employees got the COVID-19 shot, which means 92% of the workforce is now vaccinated.
The incoming class is also expected to include the first Black lesbian woman, a record breaking number of Asian Americans, and the first representatives from South Asia.
Adams carried a picture of his late mother into his polling place in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where he said he cast his vote for himself.
Two former detainees allege people housed at Rikers Island are deprived of adequate water, food and medication.
Timothy Cardinal Dolan blessed the camels, donkey and sheep used in the show's living nativity scene Tuesday.
Nearly 170 firefighters were needed to put the fire out. At least five businesses were damaged.
Police said the 70-year-old mother and 38-year-old daughter lived together, and one worked for Yonkers public schools.
The law was prompted by incidents last year on Long Island, where Confederate flags were hung on a fire truck and station.
Authorities say that roughly 920 kilos of the drug was seized.
Police say the suspect approached the 51-year-old victim and threatened to kill him before hitting him in the arm with an ax.
Flower Foods Inc. issued the recall for its Tastykake cupcakes, saying they may be contaminated with "tiny fragments of metal mesh wire."
There will also be live performances by Carrie Underwood, and the casts of Broadway's "Moulin Rouge," "Six," and "Wicked."
Ruben Rodriguez and Jerome Jemmott were with one of their mothers Monday at Fort Greene Park when they disappeared.
Reports say Martinez ran a cocaine empire in New York in the 1980s. The 2002 movie "Paid in Full" was based on his life.
When and where to vote, what's on the ballot in your neighborhood and more.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said 91% of the city's more than 300,000 employees are vaccinated. That leaves about 9,000 unvaccinated workers who were put on unpaid leave.
Suffolk is funding the police by increasing its ranks by more than 10% and training more than 700 new recruits.
Jacqueline Franchetti said the Nassau County judge failed to protect her 2-year-old daughter, Kyra, from an abusive father.
Though mum about his future plans, Mayor de Blasio has said he wants to continue with public service.
NYRR has teamed up with a nonprofit group to create more play space for kids. This is their 11th in the five boroughs.
Police said 25-year-old Nicole Smith was driving a 2011 Honda CVR when she crashed into a 2000 Nissan Rogue and then hit a Bee-Line bus.
