A man bleeding from multiple stab wounds in the chest managed to flag down an ambulance in Brooklyn early Sunday, but died shortly after at the hospital, police said.

This story was originally published by Mission Local, a nonprofit newsroom covering San Francisco. You can donate to them here. Three asylum-seekers were arrested Friday directly after court hearings at San Francisco immigration court, continuing a weeks-long pattern of federal agents waiting just outside courtrooms and arresting people as they step into the halls.  Mission Local saw all three arrests, which took […]

Subway trains were paused on Sunday afternoon underneath the MacArthur Park area while crews worked to put out an electrical fire in one of the Metro tunnels, officials confirmed. The Los Angeles City Fire Department reported the fire at 1:32 p.m., sending crews into a subway tunnel between the 7th Street/Metro Center station and the […]

The ME said the problem is being addressed but critics worry it’s more widespread than has been revealed.

For too long, the Bronx has been overlooked in NYC’s economic development plans. Major projects in Manhattan, Brooklyn or Queens are hailed as victories for working families. But when it’s the Bronx’s turn, the door too often slams shut.

At a time when the price of everyday necessities continues to rise, New Yorkers are understandably focused on ways to trim household budgets, including energy costs.

The Trump administration is making it much more difficult for women fleeing gender-based violence in other countries to immigrate to the United States. On Friday, the Board of Immigration Appeals, which is part of the Justice Department, determined that a person can’t seek asylum for persecution based on their sex alone—or sex and nationality. “It’s […]

I first saw “Jaws” during its theatrical debut in 1975 when I was 15. The previous year, family friends had loaned me Peter Benchley’s novel. The book and film terrified me. But I had been a shark-obsessed kid for years, so fascination outweighed fear.

Not long ago, my family was seriously considering leaving New York City.

We live in Jackson Heights, where our son attends a great local school and we’re surrounded by the kind of energy and diversity that made us want to raise a family here. But like many families, we were growing frustrated with the quality of life, particularly public safety. While these conversations usually focus on violent crime, we had a much bigger day-to-day safety concern: traffic.