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A New Jersey police officer, caught on video pepper-spraying two people allegedly without provocation, is facing assault charges, prosecutors said. Woodlynne Police Officer Ryan Dubiel, 31, was charged Wednesday with two counts of simple assault in a June 4 confrontation that was caught on video as he deployed oleoresin capsicum spray, the Camden County Prosecutor’s...

Mayor Bill de Blasio said he’d renew efforts to change a street named after Robert E. Lee in Brooklyn’s Fort Hamilton military base — as one of his deputy mayors revealed his ancestors were slaves on the Confederate general’s family plantation. “Nothing should be named after Robert E. Lee at this point in history,” de...

State Health Department officials knew there were hundreds of empty hospital beds in New York City specifically set up to treat coronavirus as they ordered elderly COVID-positive patients returned to nursing homes, city officials revealed Thursday. The disclosure from a top official at the city’s Office of Emergency Management came in response to a slew...

New York’s most prominent elected Republicans are urging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to deliver the MTA billions of dollars in federal coronavirus rescue money. In a letter to McConnell Thursday, 18 Empire State Republicans — including Rep. Elise Stefanik and City Councilman Joe Borelli, President Trump’s New York campaign co-chairs — echoed the MTA’s...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that he will allow local governments across the state to decide whether to open playgrounds and pools as regions continue phased reopenings from their coronavirus-induced shutdowns. “Public pools and playgrounds, we’re going to leave to local governments,” Cuomo said during his daily press briefing in Albany, adding, “But they have...

Unmasked straphangers may be kicked out of the subway system by cops — or face public humiliation from fellow commuters, an MTA bigwig said Thursday. “When they get on a subway car or when they get on a bus, all of their fellow passengers see them, and people start taking photos, and people start looking...

Richard Commaille, 70, surrendered to police Tuesday on a murder charge before being released on $500,000 bond. An arrest warrant affidavit in the connection to the April 6 death at Commaille’s Redding home is sealed for 14 days, state police said in a news release.

A majority of City Council members wrote Mayor Bill de Blasio Thursday, demanding a $500 million emergency relief program to help save small businesses from the coronavirus lockdown. “New York City’s small businesses are in desperate need for additional pandemic-related emergency grants and loans if they are to survive and remain open,” wrote Councilman Mark...

The NYPD has better things to do than make sure its members are not spreading a global pandemic by wearing masks, the department said Thursday in a response to media inquiries about why police, including brass, are routinely seen without face coverings despite city and state requirements. “Perhaps it was the heat. Perhaps it was...

Police have renewed their search for missing Connecticut mom Jennifer Dulos, searching the Avon home Thursday where she once lived with her estranged husband, who was charged with her murder before he committed suicide in January, according to reports. At least a dozen state police vehicles pulled up to the Sky View Drive home where...