The policy provides 20 hours of paid leave per year for pregnant employees to attend prenatal medical appointments.

About 30 shots were fired before the gunmen fled on foot and were then seen getting into a sedan with out-of-state plates.

New York City Police say they’ve identified the woman who died on Dec. 22 after being set on fire while inside a New York ...

The New York City socialite was at the center of a media frenzy in the 1990s amid her divorce from billionaire art dealer ...

Let's start with minimum wage. It's going up 50 cents an hour in New York to $16.50 for New York City, Long Island and ...

A 20-year-old man was arrested after breaking into Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, ...

Two stabbings unfolded just minutes apart at two different subway stations in New York City on New Year’s Day morning, leaving two hospitalized, police reported. Before 10 a.m. on Wednesday, the ...

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Law-enforcement officials in U.S. cities were beefing up security on Thursday after a deadly attack in New Orleans and an ...

High temperatures will hover around the freezing mark into the middle of January, and there will be some opportunities for fresh coatings of snow too, especially in one part of the tri-state ...

Ten people were wounded in a shooting outside a New York City nightclub while they were waiting to get into a private event, ...