Maria Cramer

Prosecutors say accusers who chose to drink or get high have a “very high burden” of proving they were physically helpless and unable to consent. There is a push to change the law.

Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch spoke after prosecutors said they had arrested a man planning to attack a Manhattan synagogue.

For decades, the Hotel Carter in Times Square was the site of squalor and crime. Now rundown and empty, its future is tied up in litigation but some hope for a rebirth.

The captain, James G. Wilson, was also filmed calling Democrats a “waste of human race.”

When Jacqueline Pritchett’s 11-year-old son, Jacob, vanished last year, she refused to acknowledge that he existed. Her life is as mysterious as his disappearance.

The bureau has informed high schools, colleges and volleyball clubs in the New York City area that the coach, Edgar Lazaro Castillo, is being investigated in connection with sexual assault.

Erik Duran was leading an undercover operation when he knocked a Bronx man off his motorbike after throwing a cooler at him in 2023.

The officer, whom police did not identify but who works at Gracie Mansion and City Hall, is now under investigation. The man who was shot, a 30-year-old, is in critical condition.

Leqaa Kordia, 33, had been held in a Texas facility, where she said her health had declined. She was arrested during a 2024 protest and then detained by ICE in March 2025.

Guy Rivera is charged with murder in the shooting of Detective Jonathan Diller, 31. The officer’s death became a flashpoint during the presidential race.

The device that emitted smoke during a protest near Gracie Mansion Saturday was designed to be deadly, people with knowledge of the investigation said.

Sgt. Tiffany Howell was charged with aggravated vehicular homicide and manslaughter for driving the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway, killing Manuel Boitel.

The largest settlements, more than $24 million combined, went to two men wrongfully convicted of killing a French tourist in Midtown in 1987, an analysis by the Legal Aid Society found.