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Cleanup after flooding, fallen trees reported across NYC and New Jersey
Powerful storms took down trees and flooded busy roadways across NYC and New Jersey, and more is on the way as the remnants of Debby move north.
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In 2019, Alecia had the opportunity to share her craft, proudly teaching journalism at Del York Creative Academy in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Powerful storms took down trees and flooded busy roadways across NYC and New Jersey, and more is on the way as the remnants of Debby move north.
Heavy rain and storms caused flooding, event cancellations and more disruptions around the Tri-State Area Tuesday.
At least a dozen cases of listeria have been reported across New York state in connection to a national outbreak linked to deli meat.
NYCHA residents rallied across all five boroughs Saturday, calling for improved living conditions.
Hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed at NYC and New Jersey airports after a CrowdStrike update caused a global Microsoft outage.
Protesters returned to the site of a future homeless shelter in Brooklyn for the second day in a row Thursday.
A lightning strike injured three people in Rockland County Wednesday.
There is increased security at Trump Tower in Manhattan and at other New York City landmarks after the assassination attempt at former President Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania.
A vigil was held Saturday evening for Yazmeen Williams, whose body was found wrapped in a sleeping bag on a Kips Bay street on July 5.
Chad Irish, 55, is accused of concealing the body of a woman found dead in New York City's Kips Bay neighborhood and has now been charged with murder.
A plan to expand a portion of the New Jersey Turnpike is getting pushback from the community.
Two teenage sisters pulled from the water in Coney Island have been pronounced dead.
Daniel Hyden, of New Jersey, has been charged in an alleged drunk driving crash on Manhattan's Lower East Side that left three people dead and six others injured.
Long Island police said Steven Schwally, 64, was drunk and speeding when he crashed an SUV into a nail salon Friday, killing an off-duty NYPD officer and three other people.
At least four people were killed and nine injured when a driver crashed through the front of a nail salon on Long Island.