It's Friday in New York City, where extra steel barricades have already gone up on Eastern Parkway ahead of the West Indian Day Parade.
The NYPD said the barriers are put up to allow police and other emergency personnel to move freely during the parade.
But Crown Heights locals are arguing that this year's two additional lines of barricades along the service road are causing headaches for seniors and disabled residents trying to get to their front doors — and generally making residents feel disrespected.
"It’s like they’re encaging us, like animals,” said Georges Nathan, a 78-year-old Eastern Parkway resident.
NYPD officials said police officers shot and killed a man who threatened them and moved quickly toward them with a knife on a cable above the Brooklyn Bridge early Friday morning.
Women gathered outside Gloria Steinem's Upper East Side home yesterday to pay their respects to the journalist and feminist leader who died at the age of 92.
The historically Black St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Jamaica, Queens, which is nearly 125 years old, is closing its doors and likely to be demolished as part of a massive neighborhood rezoning.
New York City’s new $6 billion power line from Canada that was supposed to bring enough energy to power one million homes has instead been operating far below capacity, experts said.
The substations that power the subway’s third rail are not being properly maintained by MTA workers, according to an agency watchdog report.
New Jersey's state office tasked with fighting public corruption — which has been dogged by high-profile prosecutorial missteps — is being disbanded as part of a major reorganization within the state Attorney General’s office.
"I think Williamsburg may have priced itself out of being a great location for a music venue," said Bowery Presents co-founder Jim Glancy, who's closing the Music Hall of Williamsburg.
Reality TV star Taylor Frankie Paul said her season of "The Bachelorette" that didn't air due to her domestic violence allegations did end with her getting engaged to someone.
The Brooklyn Democratic Party is in turmoil after its top leaders amended the organization’s election rules in an apparent bid to remain in power. And one of those leaders, Frank Seddio, is facing scrutiny because he also happens to be an election commissioner tasked with holding up the foundation of democracy in the borough.
