Irish Jesuit priest Francis Browne captured the final photographs of Titanic passengers and crew before the ship's tragic ...

Just after 2 a.m. on July 30, 1916, a freight car loaded with TNT exploded at a munitions depot on Black Tom Island in New York Harbor. The blast registered as a 5.5 magnitude earthquake and was felt ...

A pair of illegal immigrants tried to dodge the law by jumping into the ocean after stowing away on a barge off the coast of Puerto Rico — only to get fished out of the water by the US Coast Guard.

My grandfather Sidney Lipsyte, the son of immigrants who became a New York City public-school teacher and administrator, lived from 1904 to 2005, a good run I don’t expect to match. He witnessed, and ...

A work outside of a Manhattan subway station envisions ICE agents arresting the Statue of Liberty (all photos Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic) Outside an entrance to the Second Avenue subway station in ...

Faced with an affordability crisis and rising energy demands, Gov. Kathy Hochul has slowed progress on New York’s efforts to fight climate change. By Hilary Howard As recently as last year, New York ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — New York State finalized new regulations on December 1 requiring major companies and fuel suppliers to measure and report on exactly how much greenhouse gas they release into ...

Officers from the New York Police Department saved a man who was struggling in a freezing harbor on November 30, diving into the water and pulling him to safety. Footage from the NYPD shows officers ...

Gerard McAllister, the fifth in a series of six 84-metric- ton bollard pull, low-emission tractor tugs has arrived in the Port of New York following delivery by East Boothbay, Maine, shipbuilder ...

A controversial Bitcoin mining operation will be allowed to continue operating in the Finger Lakes under a new agreement requiring it to reduce emissions, New York’s environmental regulators said ...

Both Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa conceded on Tuesday night. "The future is in our hands, my friends, we have toppled a political dynasty," New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said to a roaring ...