Victims of a fire in the Bronx also include four members of one family and a grandmother and first grandchild.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said the police had enforced rules properly, but other officials expressed concern about tactics similar to unfair “stop and frisk” practices.

The two men had long been suspects in the 2002 killing of the D.J., a member of the group Run-DMC.

The 1966 convictions of the two men are expected to be thrown out after a lengthy investigation, validating long-held doubts about who killed the civil rights leader.

The account Officer Daniel Pantaleo gave after Eric Garner died was “implausible and self-serving,” according to the opinion obtained by The New York Times.

Health officials will begin distributing COVID-19 vaccines this week at Disneyland, the Orange County Board of Supervisors said Monday, making the resort the first “super” vaccination site in the...

Jazmine Headley has become a cause célèbre for New Yorkers who depend on food stamps and public assistance, with video of her arrest going viral.

Working for New York Newsday, The Daily News and The Times, he covered the human stories of New York in dramatic prose and crusaded against injustice.

A lone attacker shot five men, two of whom died, as they slept in the streets in New York and Washington, the authorities said.

An investigation found that Deputy Inspector James F. Kobel had used racial slurs against former President Barack Obama and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s biracial son.

An analysis by The New York Times found that the N.Y.P.D. has reduced or rejected recommendations for stiff discipline of officers in about 71 percent of 6,900 serious misconduct charges.

James P. O’Neill said the police were wrong to doubt the victim of a 1994 rape in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.

Mr. de Blasio has pointed to court delays and bail reform to explain the surge in gun violence. But the N.Y.P.D.’s own numbers tell a different story.

Officers have charged and swung batons at demonstrators after curfew with seemingly little provocation. The mayor said he would review any reports of inappropriate enforcement.

The departmental charges would be in connection with a May 2 incident in the East Village during which an officer sat on a man’s neck.

A man shot his ex-girlfriend in the head, then shot her new boyfriend in the chest before killing himself, the police said.

Mayor Eric Adams said the detective showed “great restraint” during a fractious arrest of the woman’s boyfriend, but activists called for the officer to be disciplined.

Roland Conner became the first person with a criminal conviction to open a licensed cannabis dispensary in New York with the state’s help.

Women were repeatedly being assaulted at or near a Williamsburg subway station, but the police failed to post warnings. One victim’s social media post finally led to an arrest.

The woman said the police handcuffed her to a bed during her labor and delivery in violation of state law. She had been arrested for a minor crime.

People who have been punished for marijuana offenses are applying to open the state’s first retail cannabis dispensaries.

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Crews entering the building found victims “on every floor,” the fire commissioner said. The number of fatalities is expected to rise.

Cops seized more 55,000 phones from arrestees last year and gave back 60% of them. It’s bad enough for adults. But children, parents and juvenile justice advocates say that when a young person’s...

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will unite to purchase medical supplies.

The lawsuit suggests more problems may be ahead for New York State’s troubled rollout of the recreational marijuana industry.

The callers offered names, addresses and gang affiliations that helped the police make an arrest Sunday in the stabbing death of Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, 15.