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One teenager was fatally shot and another wounded on Monday evening when someone opened fire along a busy street near a Brooklyn subway station, the police said. The police were [...]

A Brooklyn girl who was badly burned and whose seven siblings died a month ago in a fire has been released from the hospital, and according to a family acquaintance, [...]

The discord among the three Athanasatos brothers was nearly four decades deep, and it centered on the family's two-story brick house in Borough Park, Brooklyn. This week, the fraternal discord [...]

The end of her life merited a 19-word sentence in a newspaper article about the first 10 killings on Jan. 1, 1987. She was the eighth killing recorded that day. [...]

A man accused in the beating death of his companion's 2-year-old son confessed to striking the boy with his hands, knees and elbows and slamming him to the floor in [...]

A 2-year-old Brooklyn boy died on Friday night after his bruised, listless body was discovered in his mother's apartment, and the death was later ruled a homicide, the authorities said. [...]

A police officer shot and wounded a disabled man who was wielding a knife on a Brooklyn street after the man ignored orders to drop the weapon, shook off a [...]

The sign outside Chris Restaurant in Brooklyn listed some staples of Caribbean cuisine among its offerings: homemade fried chicken, jerk chicken and stew fish. But according to the authorities, there [...]

A three-story brick building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that was being renovated collapsed on Monday afternoon, critically injuring a worker who was trapped in the rubble and leaving three other people [...]

A 23-year-old Bronx man was arrested on Sunday and charged with murdering his companion's 22-month-old daughter, the police said. The city medical examiner's office said she had been beaten to [...]

A teenager's leg was severed by a train while he was in a Brooklyn subway tunnel on Saturday night, planning to paint graffiti with two other boys, the authorities said. [...]

A 24-year-old man fatally stabbed his companion and her two young daughters in their Brooklyn home, wrapped them in garbage bags, and waited at least a day before calling his [...]

An 18-year-old Queens man was fatally shot by the police late Saturday after he pointed a loaded pistol toward three plainclothes officers who were pursuing him, the authorities said. The […]

Shaking as two relatives helped her onto a sofa, Rose Danielle Etienne, 26, sobbed Thursday afternoon as she spoke of a fire that had swept through her apartment in Brooklyn […]

A reputed soldier for the Gambino crime family was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for his role in the killings of four people in New York. But it […]

A concrete-testing company and its laboratory director have been indicted on charges that they falsified test reports about the strength of concrete at some of New York's largest construction projects, […]

His was a Brooklyn neighborhood riddled with the drug trade, and Shem Walker, who understood the pitfalls of that life firsthand, tried to fight it, urging neighbors to stay away […]

The widow of a New York City fire marshal was sentenced on Thursday to 25 years to life in prison for killing him, a sentence that was greeted by spontaneous […]

More than 25 years ago, Mohammed Abuzaid left his home in a farming region in southwestern Yemen and traveled to the United States for a new life. He struggled for […]

A teenager was killed and two people were wounded, one critically, in a shooting outside a child's birthday party in Coney Island early Sunday, the police said. The motive for […]

Two Brooklyn teenagers and their father were among four people charged with gang assault in a fight that preceded the death of another teenager early Sunday, although it was unclear […]

Alie Kamara, a black Staten Island teenager, watched the results of the Nov. 4 election at a friend's house. Soon after Barack Obama was declared the winner, he walked home […]

A 14-year-old girl was found dead on Sunday afternoon in a bedroom of her home in Cambria Heights, Queens, after an apparent assault, the police said. The girl's throat was […]

A 64-year-old woman was killed in a fire early on Saturday at a residential building on Roosevelt Island, according to the police and the Fire Department. The fire broke out […]

Five men were killed in separate shootings and stabbings in the city early Sunday, the police said. In Canarsie, Brooklyn, the police said, Ramel Fletcher, 29, of Rockaway Parkway, was […]

An off-duty emergency medical technician was stabbed to death at his companion's apartment in Brooklyn early Sunday, the police said. The victim, Jason Ruiz, 30, was a popular member of […]

Late one night, shortly after Kai Lui and his wife, Laura Campbell-Lui, moved into their Queen Anne-style house in Midwood, Brooklyn, she shook him awake, insisting that she heard intruders. […]

A robbery suspect being chased by the police burst into a Brooklyn elementary school with a loaded handgun on Wednesday afternoon, prompting students to be evacuated or locked in classrooms […]

A man and a woman were arrested in Brooklyn on assault charges in the killing of a 3-year-old boy who lived with them, the police said, and more charges were […]

Wednesday was another slow day at Elgudzha Koyenishvili's liquor store in a strip of shops on Lincoln Avenue in the small-town Staten Island neighborhood of Grant City. At noon, Mr. […]

One man was slashed to death in Queens and another was fatally shot in Brooklyn in two unrelated cases on Saturday, the police said. One man, identified as Henry Frasier, […]

A construction worker fell about 30 feet to his death from a scaffold on the Triborough Bridge in Queens on Tuesday afternoon, officials said. The accident occurred about 2:30 p.m. […]

As detectives in Brooklyn continued their investigation into the assault of a black man in Crown Heights by two white men, community leaders and others asked residents on Friday to […]

A man and a woman were stabbed to death Tuesday morning in a Brooklyn apartment during a dispute involving them and another man, the police said, and the second man […]

What was meant to be a simple walk to a Bedford-Stuyvesant grocery store Sunday evening turned deadly for a 27-year-old mother of three. After leaving her children with their grandmother […]

For five decades, the oak tree survived weather and the passage of time in the front yard of the Mercereau home on Staten Island. After Douglas Mercereau was shot dead […]

A teenager was critically injured on Thursday when a gun went off while he was visiting friends in a Brooklyn apartment, the police said. Residents identified the victim as Marquise […]

On Saturday, shortly after the police arrested David Tarloff, he was permitted to talk on the phone with his father. 'Dad, they say I killed some lady,' he said, according […]

Demonstrating the same spunk she showed when she survived a vicious mugging almost a year ago at the age of 101, Rose Morat walked into a Queens courtroom on Thursday […]

upstate New York and Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The owners brought them to middlemen who would deliver them for a fee to a nondescript garage in Queens. The cars, […]

A 49-year-old man who had helped raise his granddaughter while his daughter served in Iraq was found beaten to death and bound in his apartment in Brooklyn on Sunday, the […]

A Queens man whose body was found stabbed and beaten on a Little Neck handball court had left his nearby apartment the night before intending to meet a woman for […]

The police found the skeletal remains of a woman in a home in Brooklyn yesterday. How long ago she died was unknown, but neighbors said they had not seen her […]

The 16-year-old son of a Plainfield, N.J., police officer was shot accidentally by a police officer in Roselle, N.J., during a confrontation on Friday evening, the authorities said yesterday. The […]

A brother of an orthodontist who was shot dead on a Queens playground last month testified in Family Court yesterday that his family had been threatened by the mother of […]

A woman whose estranged husband was shot dead on a Queens playground last month cried in Queens Family Court yesterday as she testified about her broken marriage and the custody […]

Detectives are investigating the death of a 20-year-old woman whose badly decomposed body was found on Sunday wrapped in bedding in her mother's apartment at a Greenwich Village building owned […]

A 24-year-old man was shot to death yesterday morning in Fort Greene in what the police described as a traffic dispute. The shooting occurred shortly before 4 a.m. in front […]

A former police officer ran down his ex-girlfriend and her new companion in a courthouse parking lot and was fatally shot in a gunfight with a police officer in Totowa, […]