What you should know New restrictions go into effect Tuesday in Newark, where its mayor says it is seeing more new COVID cases than all other Essex County cities combined; is part of a larger recent increase in cases in New Jersey Governor Andrew Cuomo touts his micro-clustering strategy as an effective containment approach in … Read more
NEW YORK – A suspect is in custody after he allegedly stole a police car in New Jersey and led police on a chase to Brooklyn. In the span of about half an hour, officers chased a stolen vehicle out of Bayonne and chased the suspect until it crashed around 1 a.m. after driving police … Read more
From 1:00 am that night, the New York subway, the city that never sleeps, will take a nap to undergo in-depth disinfection. This unprecedented measure, which aims to slow down the pandemic, must last four hours and will be repeated every night. The 472 metro stations in the American economic capital will therefore be closed … Read more
NEW YORK – Without another stimulus effort from Washington, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is poised to decide on extreme service cuts and layoffs after sounding the alarm for months of a billion-dollar deficit caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Major budget-saving measures could be decided next month and passed in December, MTA President Pat Foye … Read more
NEW YORK – Mayor Bill de Blasio denied on Friday that the Big Apple has become a “ghost town,” as President Donald Trump said Thursday, and responded that the only ghost town “will be Mar-a-Lago when the President loses the election and retires “to that resort owned by the Trump Organization and his second home. … Read more
NEW YORK – Early in Thursday night’s debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden, the commander-in-chief made a comment about New York City that drew some passionate responses from New Yorkers. Discussing the COVID-19 pandemic and the response to it, the president called New York City “a ghost town,” criticizing how restaurants … Read more
What you should know Median sales price in the Hamptons soared 46% in the quarter to just over $ 2 million, according to a report by Douglas Elliman and Miller Samuel The surge in the Hamptons came as hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers fled the city during the coronavirus pandemic and searched for homes … Read more
NEW YORK – A New York City man was arrested after he allegedly hacked into Century 21’s payroll system and gave some of his former co-workers paid vacations regardless of whether they worked or not. Héctor Navarro began working as a systems administrator at the department store’s Manhattan location in 2012 and prior to his … Read more
NEW YORK – A suspected New York City prisoner escaped while being transported from a hospital in Harlem Thursday morning. Mason Burnell, allegedly 25, was reportedly being transported from a hospital on W 137th St & Lenox Ave when he suddenly bolted from the scene. Burnell was reportedly arrested on October 21 and charged with … Read more
NEW YORK – Multiple people, including children, were injured in a school bus accident in New Windsor, upstate New York, on Wednesday morning. The accident was reported shortly after 8:30 a.m. in the Orange County community, about 50 miles northwest of Manhattan. It was not immediately clear how many people were injured, although a member … Read more