Gov. Hochul and Democratic legislative leaders announced a handshake agreement on a new budget for the 2026 fiscal year on ...

Eleanor Cullen was born in the Bronx on Sept. 15 1926. She was the middle child of three daughters born to Irish immigrants ...

Two men were charged with second-degree attempted murder and other crimes in the Sunday morning shooting in Long Island City ...

NYPD Officer Travis Desouza, 35, was charged with attempting to disseminate indecent material to minors among other crimes, ...

The fight against illicit street vendors in Woodhaven continued last week, as police with the city Department of Sanitation ...

Author Laurence Samuel grew up in Brooklyn and on Long Island. But it was a trip to the World’s Fair 60 years ago that was ...

A federal judge on Friday sentenced former U.S. Rep. George Santos to more than seven years in prison for wire fraud and ...

Despite the consensus among most city leaders that Rikers Island must close, some agency representatives and the Independent ...

BLVD Optical, the Howard Beach go-to for designer eyewear at wallet-friendly prices, has welcomed a new optometrist.Dr. S.

Reading the names of people who lost their lives due to traffic crashes, City Councilmember Julie Won (D-Long Island City) ...

A memorial tree was planted for a Fresh Meadows man who died in a crash on April 14, according to Martin Gleason Funeral Home ...

FDNY officials are saying conditions in a Jamaica Estates house where three men died on the morning of Easter Sunday hindered ...