NEW YORK – New York City residents and visitors may see warning labels next to sugary foods and drinks at chain restaurants and coffee shops, under a law expected to take effect later this year. . This law would require food establishments with at least fifteen addresses to display a warning logo – a black … Read more
NEW YORK — New York City officials on Thursday approved a plan to build a 25,000-seat stadium for MLS’s New York City FC next to Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets. York. The US$780 million stadium, scheduled to open in 2027, will anchor a nine-hectare redevelopment project in the Willets Point neighborhood … Read more
NEW YORK — A sick alligator was seized from an upstate New York residence where it was “illegally kept,” state officials said. Environmental protection officers seized the 340-kilogram, 3.4-meter-long alligator from a home in Hamburg, south of Buffalo, on Wednesday. The home’s owner had built an addition and installed an in-ground pool to accommodate the … Read more
NEW YORK — New York prosecutors said Thursday they were prepared to delay by a month “out of an abundance of caution” the start of Donald Trump’s criminal trial over hidden payments to a pornographic actress, in order to give to the former president’s lawyers while they review evidence from a previous federal investigation into … Read more
NEW YORK — The New York tradition of piling bags of trash on the sidewalk for collection will soon be a thing of the past. Since Friday, the megalopolis’s 200,000 businesses must place their bags of garbage in bins, as communities in the county and around the world have long done. The requirement is the … Read more
NEW YORK — Donald Trump has appealed his $454 million civil fraud judgment in New York, challenging a judge’s finding that he lied about his wealth as he grew the real estate empire that propelled him to fame and the presidency. Lawyers for the former president filed appeal papers Monday asking the state’s mid-level appeals … Read more
A group of Russian tourists arrived in North Korea on Friday, likely the first from any country to enter the isolated state since the pandemic. The visit highlights deepening cooperation between the two countries following a meeting last September between North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a Far East cosmodrome. … Read more
NEW YORK — An architect accused of a series of killings known as the “Gilgo Beach murders” is now charged in the death of a fourth woman, a Connecticut mother of two who disappeared in 2007 and whose the remains were found more than three years later along a coastal highway in New York state. … Read more
NEW YORK — Crowds of people dressed as jolly Santas took to the streets of New York for the Santas’ Reunion (“SantaCon”) charity bar crawl on Saturday. The boozy ride, which had no shortage of green grinches, elves and other Christmas characters, began at 10 a.m. in the bars and clubs of Manhattan. Party-goers were … Read more
Two people died when a car crashed and exploded on the U.S. side of a Canada-U.S. border crossing in Niagara Falls Wednesday afternoon. Despite the fears aroused by such an event, it would not be a terrorist attack. During a press briefing held late Wednesday afternoon, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul still could not … Read more