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Some carcinogenic chemicals have been detected in the East River after Con Ed's 37,000-gallon spill last weekend, the Coast Guard says.
Solstice shmolstice. NYC seasons begin and end at the whim of Bryant Park's omnipotent lawnkeepers.
They're as integral a drawback of the MTA commute as the rats and drunks and signal problems. They're the storied subway perverts of NYC.
Plus: New design revealed for NYC's "I Voted" sticker, and how to sneak a peek of Brooklyn Heights' most hotly anticipated hotel remodel.
Plus: A body is pulled out of Swan Lake in Central Park — one day after another surfaced in the park's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis reservoir.
A dozen court officers and firefighters were injured Wednesday in a fire in the holding cell area of Brooklyn Criminal Court, the FDNY says.
Plus: A posh high school catches fire on the Upper East Side, and Paul Ryan is met with "boos" — and angry accordion players — in Harlem.
The Coast Guard is urging people to avoid coming into contact with East River waters from Midtown and Greenpoint on down to Red Hook.
An unlikely band of Brooklyn tenants takes on two landlord brothers hell-bent on flipping their rent-stabilized homes to the luxury market.
Plus: Brooklyn politicians hold a town hall on all things Trump, and Port Authority officials try to explain away the wet mess at Oculus.
Also: An indie Brooklyn coffee shop takes Starbucks to court over the unicorn frap, and an NYC tourist suffers a brutal sexual assault.
Jill Bloomberg, a loud critic of school segregation in NYC, is suing DOE officials for what she describes as a bizarre retaliation campaign.
Here's what all your neighbors were naming their dogs last year.
The alleged Mexican drug lord says his "small, windowless cell" in Lower Manhattan is driving him mad.
Plus: We're live from the protest awaiting President Trump on the Hudson River waterfront.
The Mexican drug kingpin's miserable stint in solitary confinement has drawn attention to conditions for all inmates in NYC's federal jails.
The week in review.
Plus: The city's jail boss is really into taxpayer-funded road trips, watchdogs say, and Brooklyn's fabled cherry blossom fest is upon us.
A three-alarm fire burned for more than two hours Friday afternoon in multiple buildings along 61st Street. Here's the latest from the FDNY.
End of an era, for sure — if a somewhat overpriced and sexually exploitative one.
