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The man arrested for taking explosives into a Long Island hospital was also armed to the teeth with body armor and a pickaxe, Suffolk police said Thursday. Images of the lethal haul were released as Suffolk County police led a handcuffed Robert Roden, 33 — who was allegedly busted with three explosives at Stony Brook...

Public transit ridership has continued to climb this week as the city reopens — but buses remain more popular than subways, according to the MTA. Subway ridership, which averaged nearly 5.5 million trips per day in 2019, has trailed bus ridership every single day since Monday, March 23 — when the first full week of...

New York City first lady Chirlane McCray — whom Mayor Bill de Blasio has credited for his executive decision to jump on the “defund the police” bandwagon — said no cops patrolling the streets would be a “nirvana,” according to a report. “That would be like a nirvana, a utopia that we are nowhere close...

Some Big Apple businesses are coming up with creative ways to peddle their wares on sidewalks now that curbside pickup is allowed. The novel selling tactics, first reported by West Side Rag, include newly-reopened retailers placing samples outdoors or planting chairs on the pavement to signal a store is open for business. “People seem uncertain....

The NYPD is looking into allegations that officers bloodied a Bronx teenager and took him into custody without ever alerting his family, the mayor said Wednesday night. Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a tweet that he has spoken to the family of the alleged victim, 16-year-old Jahmel Leach, and he came away “really troubled by...

A New Jersey mayor apologized on Wednesday after saying at a rally over the weekend that he supports “good black people.” Mayor Sal Bonaccorso of Clark Township, was asked by protesters if he would declare himself as “pro-black,” at the demonstration for social justice on Saturday, reported nj.com. “I am pro-black for all the good...

A man was arrested for taking three explosive devices to a Long Island hospital Tuesday night, police said. Robert Roden, 33, was first stopped by Stony Brook University police after a hospital security guard reported a suspicious man inside the emergency room just after 9 p.m., cops said. University officers found a suspicious package inside...

Police early Thursday released photos of several suspects wanted for stealing from a high-end SoHo camera store that lost over a half a million dollars from looting. The Leica Store SoHo was ransacked on May 31 — the first of two nights of widespread looting of luxury stores in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood. A man...

Teamsters Local 237 President Greg Floyd said recent calls to put the city's 5,036 unarmed safety agents under the authority of the Department of Education amounted to a recipe for disaster.

State senators on Wednesday rubber-stamped the controversial appointment of city Department for the Aging Commissioner Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez to the MTA board. Mayor Bill de Blasio’s nomination of Cortes-Vazquez — who was the head of the Puerto Rican Parade Committee three years ago when it invited convicted terror mastermind Oscar Lopez-Rivera — triggered widespread condemnation from...