New York City

New York City issued an initial health alert early last week after identifying more than a dozen children in city hospitals with the rare illness; now up to 100 cases have been identified statewide. Five children have died

The Black community has been especially hard-hit by coronavirus. In New York City’s neighborhood of Harlem, funeral director Isaiah Owens scrambled at the peak of the outbreak to keep up with the influx of dead — including his own friends — while keeping his commitment to offer dignified open casket funerals for every victim of the virus. The New York...

Joey “Jaws” Chestnut scored a new world record and his 13th win at Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Content on July 4. He talked with NBCLX’s Tabitha Lipkin, who happens to be related to him, about his training regimen and about how the coronavirus changed the contest this year.

New York City’s Department of Correction plans to discipline more than a dozen officers for their conduct related to the death of Layleen Polanco, who died at Rikers Island in 2019. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the action Friday after the DOC concluded its six-month investigation into Polanco’s death. 17 officers face disciplinary charges, de Blasio said, and at least…

More than three months without being able to open nearly led to the Greenwich Village symbol of pride closing its doors for good, so the owners put out a plea for help — and got plenty of responses

The New York Times showcases recipe developer Yewande Komolafe as she explains how her cooking is a gateway to conversation and a reflection of her Nigerian culture.

A statue depicting former President Theodore Roosevelt with a Native American man and an African man on either side of his horse is being moved in New York City.

The NYPD has suspended an officer without pay after a video surfaced Sunday afternoon that appeared to show the officer use the now banned chokehold technique to detain a man.

A statue of Theodore Roosevelt positioned on the front steps of the American Museum of Natural History is coming down, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed Sunday evening, saying the museum made the request. The bronze statue that has stood at the museum’s Central Park West entrance since 1940 depicts Roosevelt on horseback with a Native American man…

A recently-expanded NYC diversion program is keeping low-level offenders from spending time in court. Instead, ‘Project Reset’ is bringing people to the Brooklyn Museum after their arrests to study and create art.

Karla Mejia is the community organizer for the Violence Intervention Program, a group that supports victims of domestic violence.

Thousands of supporters dressed in white congregated outside the Brooklyn Museum Sunday to call attention to the plight of Black trans lives, including the death of trans woman Layleen Polanco.

The NYPD is facing questions over two incidents involving officers using stun guns on civilians, including one man who was tased while in a diabetic shock, and another who claims to have partial vision loss

There has been a dramatic escalation in rhetoric and propaganda by extremist entities who seek to take advantage of the protests following the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis, according to the NYPD. During a NYPD’s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau briefing Saturday afternoon, Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller, alongside two other officials,...

Dhafer Ghaleb Mohamed has owned his corner store, Lai Lai Deli, in the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights for 10 years.

Three people have been arrested by the FBI and have been charged federally with trying to set off Molotov cocktails against the NYPD on Friday night.

A white woman called the NYPD and accused a black man of threatening her and her dog after an exchange that started when the man asked the woman to leash her dog in Central Park.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday to kick off morning trading. It signaled the opening of the trading floor on Wall Street for the first time in two months after the coronavirus outbreak had forced all-electronic trading

Their city is under siege, their age group at particular risk and their lives increasingly isolated — but every Monday morning, one group of older New Yorkers is finding plenty to laugh about

The Bronx remains one of the places hit hardest by the COVID-19 outbreak, and very few places have been hit as hard as Co-Op City