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The World Cup is such a big deal that even impersonators of players in the tournament are turning heads. At the Port Authority Bus terminal, look-alikes of Lionel Messi, a forward for the Argentina national team; Cristiano Ronaldo, a forward for the Portugal national team, and Neymar da Silva Santos Jr., a forward for the Brazil national team, […]

UFC fighter, Kamaru Usman and his manager, Ali Abdelaziz were involved in a brawl with a fan, during the inaugural Professional Fight League (PFL) show. According to Odilon Cedillo, who captured the video at the Madison Square Garden event, Usman and Abdelaziz first saw the fan kneeling during the national anthem. They then ordered him […]

The body of a woman likely killed by an alligator in Davie, Florida, has been found by police. Authorities confirmed Saturday morning that the remains of Shizuka Matsuki had been discovered in a lake at the Silver Lakes Rotary Nature Park, ABC 15 Arizona reported. Matsuki, 47, went missing while walking her dogs by the […]

A fire and explosion at a camp for teens in Monroe, New York, has left nine people injured; including three in critical condition. The teens, who were from a Brooklyn yeshiva, smelled gas when they returned to their bungalow at the Quaker Hill Cottages, just after midnight on Friday. The executive director from their yeshiva, […]

A mobile phone company founded by a group of New Yorkers advertises no contracts, no fine print, and no more Saturday afternoons wasted waiting in line for help at a store. It may sound too good to be true, but one local startup says it is making it happen. The founders call the company Wing, […]

One of New York City’s last saxophone repairmen, Perry Ritter, has an impressive celebrity client list. Chris Potter, Michael Brecker and Lenny Pickett from “Saturday Night Live,” are among the musicians who have had their instruments serviced by Ritter. His business, Perry Ritter Woodwind Repair on 47th Street, is a musical epicenter where legendary saxophonists […]

NEW YORK—A federal appeals court on Wednesday revived claims against the Battery Park City Authority by 18 workers who became ill after cleaning up debris at the World Trade Center site following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected the agency’s challenge to “Jimmy Nolan’s Law,” a […]

Retired NYPD Police Officer Scott Blackshaw spent 20 years on the force and more than 100 hours working the Ground Zero pile after September 11. Years later, he was spending two to three days a week getting holistic infusions as he fought his toughest battle yet—brain and spinal cancer. “I just wanted to ride around […]

NEW YORK—Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of rape and sexual assault, his lawyer said, in the first cases involving the disgraced producer to be tested in criminal court since scores of accusers emerged last year. More than 70 women have accused the Miramax film studio’s co-founder of sexual misconduct, […]

A 10-year-old girl was violently robbed as she was entering her apartment in the Bronx on the afternoon of May 25. The attacker, yet to be identified, followed the girl into the building’s lobby on Holland Avenue in Allerton. He grabbed her cell phone from her and hit her with it. He then threw her […]

Anna Delvey introduced herself to prominent names in the financial, art, and fashion worlds “through friends” in order to convince them to buy into her business, says Jessica Pressler, the New York Magazine journalist who wrote a profile on Delvey that went viral this week. Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, pretended to be […]

Officials have suspended the search for two people who were on a plane that crashed off the coast of Long Island on June 2, after poor sea conditions made it too difficult to keep searching. The U.S. Coast Guard said it got a call shortly before 3 p.m. on Saturday about an aircraft that had gone […]

Tidal New York in New Rochelle is a footwear company that actively seeks to employ former service members in its business. Many of the veterans employed by Tidal have served in Afghanistan and Iraq. According to the company’s website, the factory is staffed almost exclusively by former servicemen and women. Siul Celeste worked her way […]

Long Island resident Archie Dalton is getting a new lease on life following a minimally invasive mitral heart valve replacement. The valve was sourced from the lining of a cow’s heart. Doctors at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, Long Island, diagnosed 90-year-old Dalton with a leaky valve, Fox 5 reported. It made the blood in his […]

A Brooklyn family that had their beloved dog Zoey stolen on May 26 had it returned to them by a kind-hearted dog lover from the Bronx. Zoey was stolen along with an expensive folding bike from the couple’s second-floor Union Street apartment in Park Slope. “This whole week I have been getting up early, putting […]

Nearly 2,000 pieces of mail bound for the New York City Board of Elections, has arrived five months late, reported Fox News. On April 24 and April 25, the United States Postal Service (USPS) dropped off nearly 2,000 pieces of mail, of which 533 were absentee ballots, that was to be counted towards the November […]

New York City started a two-year pilot program on Thursday, May 31, that would redesignate 285 parking spots for car-sharing companies like Zip Car and Enterprise. The mayor said at a press conference that there will be 230 spots on the street,  55 spots in 17 of the DOT’s municipal parking lots, as well as the […]

Four people were injured when a car crashed into a Bedford-Stuyvesant cafe in Brooklyn on Thursday morning. “It was like the sound of a bomb, or a building falling down,” bodega worker Mohamed Nagi, who rushed in with his friend to help those involved in the accident, told Pix 11. “I seen there’s a car coming, straight […]

The family of a 7-year-old who was killed in a bus collision on May 26 has begun lawsuit proceedings against the MTA. The heartache of losing her son, Shavone Bethea Jr., was proving too much for Nikkiya Whittington—she was struggling to stand at a press conference on May 30, Pix 11 reported Shavone was out with his father in the […]

Thousands of people lined the sidewalks and streets of New York City to capture “Manhattanhenge” as the sun set on May 30. The setting sun aligns perfectly with the Manhattan street grid every year for two days in the spring and summer, resulting in a visual spectacle. The term “Manhattanhenge,” coined by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse […]