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Around 8 p.m. a person walked into an apartment building on Hoe Ave. near Home St. and fired a gun at the two victims, who live in the same apartment, police and relatives said.

The Brownville and Crown Heights communities are grieving the loss of two young people to gun violence. A 15-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man were killed within a mile from each other Tuesday evening. The NYPD has identified the 15-year-old victim as Heath Campbell and the 21-year-old victim as Nickalos Mitchell.

A man who set out to avenge a slain rapper, but wound up wounding an innocent teen, was sentenced to prison Tuesday for the botched Bronx revenge shooting.

South Bronx residents voiced their strong opposition—often shouting down members of the Adams administration—regarding the city’s plan to

Nine more former detainees are accusing an ex-staffer at a Bronx juvenile detention center of sexually abusing them as children, according to an avalanche of lawsuits that city lawyers are trying to shut down by drawing parallels to Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to open a 2,200-bed shelter for migrant men in the South Bronx is being met with massive resistance from residents and elected

New York City’s five-day streak of no shooting victims ended with a bang with two people hit by gunfire within three hours, police said Friday. At 10:11 p.m. Thursday, the NYPD announced on X that no one had been shot in the five boroughs since Saturday.

The city’s transportation commissioner headed to Brooklyn for some work in the streets to mark an Adams administration milestone.

The sprawling transit agency’s much talked about, multi-year, major-projects plan almost always takes a winding route to the finish line.

Between September 2022 and December 2022, the former postal worker pleaded guilty to stealing at least 10 packages of sports cards and memorabilia collectively valued at more than $40,000, according to a criminal complaint filed in the United States District Court District of New Jersey.