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A Union City landlord has run out of legal options after years of fighting the city in court to avoid abating health and safety code violations and paying thousands in relocation costs for residents of an illegal apartment. An 18-page appellate court panel ruling last week is the latest in...

In court documents obtained by Action News, authorities detail the mother's last moments alive before her gruesome death.

In a heartbreaking incident that unfolded in Jersey City on June 5, 2023, the life of a 15-year-old boy named Tyshawn Smith was tragically cut short. The local authorities, including the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit and the Jersey City Police Department, have launched an investigation to uncover the circumstances surrounding this devastating event.

Police say they have made an arrest in a fatal stabbing in Riverside. Police responded to Nugent Drive Tuesday afternoon after receiving a call about a man stabbed. The victim, whose name has not yet been released, was rushed to the hospital where he died. Police arrested 20-year-old Gelber Lopez-Perez...

The Hudson County Democratic organization, one of the strongest county parties in New Jersey, has swept most contested primaries for legislative and county office against a progressive off-the-line slate, the New Jersey Globe projects, but two county commissioner seats remain too close to call. The county’s lone contested legislative primary...

Air quality in New York City has become among the most polluted of any city in the world thanks to smoke from over 100 wildfires in Canada enveloping the northeast of the U.S this week. According to the IQAir World Air Quality Index, New York City’s air quality was worse than any other city at 10 p.m. on Tuesday night and was still considered “very unhealthy” early Wednesday. City officials urged New Yorkers to remain indoors wherever possible and at-risk residents have been encouraged to wear masks. “If you are an older adult or have heart or breathing problems and need to be outside, wear a high-quality mask (e.g. N95 or KN95),” the office of Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement late Tuesday. Adams said precautions are being taken “out of an abundance of caution to protect New Yorkers’ health.” The smoke is expected to remain in the city for several days.Read it at Washington Post

Dangerous smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to shroud New York City in an acrid, hazy blanket — prompting yet another air quality alert on Wednesday. Public schools across the Five Boroughs cancelled all outdoor activities on June 7, and Mayor Eric Adams warned those with respiratory conditions and others vulnerable to the smoke — including children and seniors — to stay inside as air quality levels hovered into “unhealthy” levels.

NEW YORK CITY, NY – The New York City Police Department continues its ongoing investigation into a series of robberies within the 34th Precinct, with two arrests recently made and one individual still sought. The two arrested individuals are Osriel Lewis, 23, from the Bronx, NY, who was taken into custody on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, and Angel Pimentel, 29, also from the Bronx, arrested on Thursday, May 5, 2022. The department is still seeking information on the location of two unidentified males believed to be involved in two incidents that occurred on Monday, April 25, 2022. The post Suspects charged for multiple robberies in the Bronx appeared first on Shore News Network.

New York City woke to an orange glow on Tuesday with the sun obscured by a thick blanket of unhealthy smoke drifting south from Canadian wildfires.

Authorities are investigating the death of a 15-year-old boy who was found Monday morning inside a house in Jersey City with an apparent gunshot wound, according to the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office. The teen was found when Jersey City police officers were responding to a 911 call reporting a shooting...

Ben Domenech, Joe Borelli call out NYC Mayor Eric Adams for suggesting housing migrants at private residences as city faces crisis over migrant population.

By Tuesday evening, New York City had the most polluted air in the world with an air quality index rating of 196. On Saturday, the city's AQI rating was 15. Smoke from hundreds of wildfires throughout Canada drifted into the United States on Tuesday triggering air quality concerns across the East Coast.

The latest convictions, almost all misdemeanors, date back as far as 1996. Each involves one of nine officers who were later convicted of on-the-job offenses — among them taking bribes, illegally selling guns, lying under oath and planting drugs on suspects — and are no longer on the force.

A New York City high schooler who was shoved onto Queens subway tracks by a homeless woman was heading to get her hair done for the prom when she was pushed — but said Tuesday even the terrifying sudden attack wasn’t going to make her miss the big dance. Sarah Arias, 18, was shoved off the platform at the 75th Street–Elderts Lane J/Z station in Woodhaven Monday around 10:30 a.m. by a woman who had been arguing with a man at the above-ground station. “It didn’t feel real. I was flying through the air,” Arias told The Post from her Brooklyn home. “It...

ABC7NY's Air Quality Tracker provides real-time updates on the latest air quality data available from government monitors across the city and the region.

Five men with alleged mob ties were arrested Tuesday for stealing $2 million worth of bling in a pair of daytime gunpoint heists at Manhattan jewelry stores, federal prosecutors announced. Frank DiPietro, Vincent Cerchio, Vincent Spagnuolo, Michael Sellick and Samuel Sore — associates of the Luciano and Genovese crime families, according to NYPD officials — were charged over the two robberies, the first in January in Midtown and the other in lower Manhattan last month. Four of the defendants — DiPietro, Cerchio, Spagnuolo and Sellick — made off with at least three diamond pieces, including 73-carat necklace, a six-carat ring and a 17-carat pair of earrings the...

City officials’ new drug-themed vending machine is a huge hit with local addicts — who wasted no time cleaning it out overnight as they stocked up on its free crack pipes, lip balm and Narcan. “Yes, I love it,” drug user Evelyn Williams told The Post while standing at the “public health” vending machine in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on Tuesday. “They put it in yesterday, and it’s empty already. By 1 p.m., a drug-prevention-program worker was starting to restock the machine with more drug-test strips, Narcan and condoms — predicting the vending machine could need to be refilled “maybe twice a day, depending on which items go quite quickly.’’ “We have a lot of addicts and...

The driver accused of killing a 23-year-old pedestrian and mowing down four other people in a wild Manhattan crash admitted he was drinking all day before getting behind the wheel — with a blood alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit, prosecutors alleged Tuesday. Mahbub Ali, 26, was ordered held on $300,000 bail by a Manhattan judge at his arraignment Tuesday, despite prosecutors requesting he be remanded for the deadly Sunday night driving rampage in Gramercy Park. Ali, of Queens, allegedly admitted to law enforcement that he began drinking at brunch around noon Sunday — and kept boozing throughout the day before...

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit is investigating the death of a teenage boy from Jersey City which happened early this morning. According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, the Jersey City Police Department and the Homicide Unit are investigating the death of a 15-year-old boy that occurred at approximately 4:20 a.m., Monday, June 5. Suarez says the Jersey City Police Department received a 9-1-1 call reporting a shooting at 124 Wilkinson Avenue.

A view of the Manhattan skyline from the Hoboken waterfront on Tuesday evening. As air quality warnings continue, an environmental health professor from NYU offers simple tips for protecting one’s health from wildfire smoke. [ more › ]