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City says wind not a factor in deadly crane accident
Winds were gusting near and above the legal city limit of 30 mph around the time of the fatal crane accident in Queens Tuesday afternoon -- but officials refused to...
Workers killed when beam crashes on crane
A crane wire snapped at a Queens job site amid high winds Tuesday and sent a 6,500-pound steel beam crashing down on the cab — killing the operator and his...
NYC marks safest October in recent history
The city experienced its safest October in recent history as crime continued to drop for the year. “The month of October [was] the safest October in the CompStat era,” Mayor...
Missing woman's death ruled a homicide
A Queens choir singer who was last seen leaving the beauty parlor turned up dead in a car with stab wounds to her head, according to officials Tuesday. Dayo Corley,...
3 injured in shooting on the Lower East Side
Residents of the Lower East Side caught a glimpse of the neighborhood’s gritty past early Sunday when a gunman opened fire and shot three people, authorities said. The bloodshed occurred...
Shocking moment crook cold-cocks grandma
A 69-year-old churchgoing grandmother was cold-cocked by an ex-con as he fled a Queens deli with a stolen can of beer, police and witnesses said Tuesday. Surveillance video of the...
Egyptian burn victim being treated in US after cooking accident
The teen girl who flew from Cairo to New York with horrific burns all over her body is a US citizen — and her family said Monday she was injured during a...
Woman arrested for shooting NYPD detective with pellet gun
A Long Island woman has been busted for shooting an NYPD detective with a pellet gun in Queens, authorities said Sunday. The plainclothes officer was on duty and sitting in...
700 NYPD recruits take first step toward becoming cops
About 700 men and women — some with long “blue”-blood lines — took their first step to becoming cops Tuesday and were sworn in as new NYPD recruits. Commissioner James...
Gas leak leads firefighters to woman stabbed to death
A 69-year-old Bronx woman was found stabbed to death in her basement apartment as gas from her stove filled the home Sunday evening, authorities said. Investigators believe the killer intentionally...
Officials scramble to get LIRR running by Monday
Officials are hoping to get at least one LIRR track back up and running by Monday after a work train sideswiped a passenger train Saturday night, injuring 33 people and...
Explosion reduces 2 NJ houses to rubble
Two New Jersey homes were leveled in an apparent gas explosion Tuesday morning, scattering debris across rooftops and damaging a slew of nearby houses, authorities said. The blast, which occurred...
Cops find mother, son dead while responding to reported gas leak
Firefighters responding to a report a possible gas leak in the Bronx found a mother and her grown son dead in separate rooms with gunshot wounds to the head, sources...
Elderly tenant claims super attacked her so she'd move out
A woman says the landlord of her $900-a-month apartment ordered the super to scare her out of the Chelsea building by trying to choke her with a broom handle, according...