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Being told she was valedictorian "was one of the happiest moments in my life. Being my school’s first African American valedictorian is a huge feeling of pride," says Jada Sampson of Far Rockaway.

An apparently crazed Queens man who allegedly stabbed and killed his boyfriend in a Harlem apartment before setting the place on fire — and who then waited stark naked at the door for first responders — has been charged with murder, police said. Aljo Mrkulic, 31, has been hit with charges of first degree murder...

Robbie Neissen, 11, is a fifth-grader at Clifton School #13 in Clifton, NJ. Because of the COVID-19 lockdown, he’s missing a trip to Washington, DC, with safety-patrol kids from all over the country. As a safety-patroller, I helped a kindergarten class every day. I would take the boys to the bathroom at ­recess. I’d take...

Vincent Morales, 17, plays baseball for St. Raymond HS in the Bronx — one of the top programs in the city. When his final season was canceled because of the pandemic, it crushed the Manhattan College-bound senior. I’ve played baseball since I was 4. Growing up in the Bronx and rooting for the Yankees, it’s...

One person is in life-threatening condition after a fire tore through a 20-story apartment building in Hell’s Kitchen on Saturday, according to the FDNY. The blaze broke out at 300 W. 55th St. at around 3:45 p.m.; smoke could be seen billowing from near the roof of The Westerly, a luxury rental building off Eighth...

Summer camps have become a battleground for upstate reopening wars -- with fearful locals and anxious operators in limbo awaiting direction on if and how they can open amid the coronavirus crisis.

“There is no fat to cut, there is no meat to cut — we are at the bone,” Carranza testified Tuesday at a City Council budget hearing.

Deaths from the coronavirus ticked higher in New York over the last 24 hours, but hospitalizations and new cases continued to decline, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who warned Saturday about complacency amid data showing reason for optimism. An additional 157 people died of COVID-19 Friday, 105 in hospitals and 52 in nursing homes, a...

A distraught Brooklyn woman whose mother died in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak believes the funeral home buried the wrong body.

It’s don’t test, don’t tell at New York nursing homes. Deaths soared at two NYC nursing homes and two in Nassau County at the height of the coronavirus outbreak. But the official state counts show far fewer COVID-19 related fatalities. At the 268-bed Cypress Garden Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Flushing, 76 patients died...