Jessy Edwards

On a recent Monday afternoon, the vice chancellor of Austria, Andreas Babler, peered up at a hole in the sagging ceiling of a dark, unrented South Williamsburg apartment crowded with abandoned furniture and dusty suitcases. Los Sures tenant advocate Lina Renique-Poole was telling Babler about the landlord's warehousing of more...

A doctor shot seven people inside a New York City hospital, one of them fatally, before turning the gun on himself in what appears to be a case of workplace violence Friday afternoon, officials say.

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Ernastiaze Moore knew the name of the state prison guard who he alleges sexually assaulted him on two separate occasions at Sullivan Correctional Facility, where he was incarcerated. He remembered the dates of the abuse and the rooms where the attacks took place. His lawyers obtained video of one of the assaults and internal prison reports of both incidents. His case seemed like exactly the ...

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What's more New York than almost sitting on a partially-nude man painted to camouflage into a classic subway cart?

A luxury jet carrying rapper Post Malone landed safely in New York Tuesday afternoon, hours after blowing two tires during takeoff at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport.

Members of the Brooklyn Democratic Party's reform bloc filed a lawsuit in Brooklyn Supreme Court Monday seeking an injunction to halt the current party lea

A lawsuit alleging Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn made illegal, 11th-hour rule changes to cling to power was delayed in

When Michelle Stamp was a child, she used to spend hours playing at her grandmother's place—a rent-stabilized apartment in a pre-war building at 1392 Sterl