The horrifying arson homicide of a sleeping woman at Coney Island was the 11th murder in the subway this year. That is far too high a number. Along with other elevated crime underground, the gruesome ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul pledged Friday to stop the runaway train of subway violence by making it easier to involuntarily commit and treat dangerous mentally ill New Yorkers — but critics quickly ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul says the recent surge in violence in the subway "cannot continue." She says she will include new legislation in the executive budget to change New York's involuntary commitment ...

With voters anxious about the cost of living, politicians are eager to show how they are trying to help alleviate the crisis.

In the two years before FBI agents raided her homes, Winnie Greco City Mayor Eric Adams’ longtime Asian affairs adviser, ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Special drought conditions are no longer in effect in New York City after Mayor Eric Adams lifted a drought watch Friday. Adams credited above-average precipitation in recent ...

A spate of shocking crimes — including the woman fatally set on fire aboard a Brooklyn F train and the man thrown in front of a 1 train, many allegedly done by those with serious mental illness — ...

In 2025, the courts will hear cases against a former high school valedictorian accused of killing a CEO, a gubernatorial aide ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to expand the state’s involuntary commitment laws to allow hospitals to compel more people ...