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Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday that he will run for Congress in a redrawn district that includes his Brooklyn home.
A FDNY member from LI was among the group of firefighters, paramedics and EMTs reunited Wednesday with former patients brought back to life after suffering cardiac incidents.
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Thomas Pushpamangalam came to the U.S. from India to study at NYU, where he later taught.
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The new level, which includes health officials urging the wearing of masks in any indoor public setting, comes as COVID infections continue to rise. However, hospitalizations and deaths, key indicators for the pandemic's danger to the public, remain low.
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Shelby Modell's "whole life was dedicated to helping people," her son said.
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Both Nassau and Suffolk are assessed at "high" currently by the CDC, though officials on Long Island have not pushed for renewed masking protocols.
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Thousands of New Yorkers, Long Islanders among them, marched Saturday to protest the potential reversal of the landmark federal law ensuring a woman's right to abortion.
3m read3m readThousands in Brooklyn, Long Island, Washington, D.C. and other U.S. cities marched Saturday to support abortion rights and protest the potential reversal of Roe v. Wade.
The woman told TSA agents the ammunition belonged to her son and that she had grabbed the wrong bag.
1m read1m readKomal Singh, 52, a foreman on a construction project, is accused of requiring workers pay him $50 for each day they worked, prosecutors said.
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NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell and New York City Mayor Eric Adams held a news conference on the dangers and increased circulation of ghost guns. Adams called it not a New York City problem but an American problem.
A judge has stopped the clock on Trump's $10,000-a-day fine for failing to turn over documents in a state civil investigation and said he'll lift the former president's contempt finding altogether if he meets certain conditions.
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They're among four men charged in connection with 2019 execution-style killing.
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The survey, which sampled more than 160 major employers in New York City, found that only 8% workers were in the office five days a week.
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The shooting in Queens also seriously wounded a neighbor who had come to the aid of the victim, identified by police as Migdalia Ortega, 51.
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Matthew Stockfeder had been convicted of stabbing his then-housemate with a kitchen knife during a fight in 2019.
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Prosecutors say Aaron Mostofsky, who was dressed in a furry costume during the Jan. 6 riot, was among the first to breach the Capitol building.
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He documented war, terrorism and everyday life in New York City and on Long Island.
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City Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan urged New Yorkers to exercise "even greater caution" than they have in recent weeks.
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A jury rejected 20-year NYPD veteran Thomas Webster's claim that he was defending himself when he tackled the officer and grabbed his gas mask.
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Amazon warehouse workers overwhelmingly rejected a union bid, dealing a blow to organizers who last month pulled off the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant's history.
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"He died doing what he loved. Being a fireman was his true purpose in life: A hero. Always putting others before himself," said fellow FDNY firefighter and childhood friend Vincent Geary.
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Throngs of people attended the wake for FDNY firefighter Timothy Klein, who died while battling a fire in Brooklyn last Sunday.
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Hundreds of FDNY members gathered outside McManus Funeral Home in Brooklyn on Thursday to remember Timothy Klein, a fallen firefighter who died Sunday while fighting a house fire in Canarsie.
Anastasios Tsakos, an NYPD highway police officer from East Northport, was struck and killed last year on the Long Island Expressway by an alleged drunken driver.
FDNY firefighter Timothy Klein, killed while battling a Brooklyn house fire Sunday, worked with comrades to make first responder homes accessible to people with disabilities.
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The Kirrane family will never forget the kindness and generosity of fallen FDNY firefighter Timothy Klein and members of the Fight for Firefighters Foundation, who made the Kirrane home more accessible for 12-year-old Finley, who has cerebral palsy.
A nonfatal overdose led investigators to two Massapequa stores, where they determined THC — or Tetrahydrocannabinol — was being sold, Nassau police said.
Mayor Eric Adams invited the public to submit photos of NYPD cops in the subways fiddling with their phones instead of watching for crime.
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A report by the Anti-Defamation League says that New York State had the most antisemitic incidents nationwide; on Long Island, incidents targeting the Jewish community climbed by 23%.
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Officers responding to a 4:30 p.m. 911 call found the victim inside the busy Queens transit hub with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso, the NYPD said.
As investigators probed the remains of the house where FDNY firefighter Timothy Klein died in a partial ceiling collapse Sunday, his family and comrades mourned at Ladder Company 170 in Brooklyn.
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The firefighter died after the ceiling collapsed in the home where he and other members of the FDNY were battling a blaze.
2m read2m readRobert Smith, of Plainview, called himself one of "the most corrupt cops" at his Queens precinct, prosecutors said, and engaged in a scheme to accept bribes for directing vehicle crashes to tow truck companies.
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Of the Long Island Rail Road's 6,688 overtime-eligible employees, 2.8% had overtime earnings exceeding 100% of their base pay, according to the MTA's latest annual overtime report.
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Clarence Sutphin, who died in 1992, repeatedly risked his life to save others as a member of the Coast Guard in the Pacific during World War II, but his family knew little of his heroics.
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Staff members with the Metropolitan Transporation Authority honored at City Hall on Friday for their actions during Tuesday's subway shooting in Brooklyn.
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On Friday, Mayor Eric Adams honored some of the heroes from Tuesday's subway shooting in Brooklyn.
Frank James "terrifyingly opened fire on passengers in a crowded subway train," an assistant U.S. attorney said in Brooklyn federal court Thursday.
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Xiaoning Zhang pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder and weapons charges in the stabbing death of attorney Jim Li of Great Neck.
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Frank James, the man accused of firing a Glock 9 mm handgun on a crowded Brooklyn subway train, injuring 23 people, is to be arraigned in federal court today.
5m read5m readNYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig announced at a news conference that Frank R. James, the suspect in the Brooklyn subway shooting on Tuesday that injured 23 people, is in police custody.
Information from law enforcement tracks the movements of suspect Frank James, starting Monday and ending with his arrest Wednesday afternoon.
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A mass shooting in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning injured 16 people, including 10 who were shot.
While cops searched for the shooter and streets near the 36th Street Station filled with emergency vehicles, shaken area residents and merchants tried to make sense of a mass shooting in their neighborhood.
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As the city's second Black mayor, Adams said he felt it was his duty to recognize slavery as the country's greatest wrong.
Ghost guns are assembled from parts that lack serial numbers which makes them virtually untraceable.
A 17-year-old boy was arrested in the killing a day earlier of a 16-year-old girl in the Bronx and the wounding of two other teens in the same shooting, NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said.
2m read2m readThe defendants, including a Long Beach resident, are accused of forging the names of the rightful owners of a Queens home purchased at an auction in 2006 and making off with $394,216 in unclaimed funds, according to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz.
2m read2m readTwo years after the first COVID-19 cases were diagnosed on Long Island, many still struggle with lingering long-term effects from the virus. Newsday's Shari Einhorn reports.
For Long Islanders still looking to get a COVID-19 vaccine, these resources might help.
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Newsday photographers capture images telling the stories of the people and places of Long Island. Here are some of the most compelling photos.
Two years after the first COVID-19 cases on Long Island, many battle a condition that doctors can't fully explain, with uncertainty about whether the symptoms will ever go away.
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Retired FDNY Capt. Michael J. Lyons, a Long Island firefighter who rescued an office worker from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, died Tuesday of 9/11-related cancer, the FDNY said. He was 53.
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A NYPD cop was shot in the arm Tuesday night during an exchange of gunfire with a suspect in the Bronx.
Police are searching for Frank P. James, a 62-year-old man who rented the U-Haul truck believed to be connected to the Tuesday morning mass shooting in a crowded Brooklyn subway station.
Elizabeth Diller, the architect behind The Shed, a new 200,000-square-foot arts center with a telescopic,...
A former Port Jefferson woman who was accused of shoving an 87-year-old woman in Manhattan has been charged with manslaughter. The victim died five days after the attack. Newsday's Cecilia Dowd reports.
