Browsing: New York City

Sunny Hostin says she was the lone holdout juror who secured a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict in the 1991 trial of Daniel Rakowitz, the ‘Butcher of Tompkins Square Park.’

The Columbus Citizens Foundation has invited Mayor Zohran Mamdani to Manhattan’s Columbus Day Parade, prompting backlash from Italian-American leaders who cite his past criticism of Christopher Columbus.

The family of Daria Serkov, the 15-year-old killed by an excavation truck while riding a Citi Bike on the Lower East Side, has asked the public and press for privacy as they grieve.

Patrick Clancy and his new wife, Rachel Danis, said in a ’60 Minutes’ interview that they are starting a family, months after Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial ended in a hung jury.

President Trump called it “terrible” and “inappropriate” after video showed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mayor Zohran Mamdani smiling during the reading of 9/11 victims’ names, though a witness disputed that they were laughing about the ceremony.

Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton says al Qaeda’s global network has grown 50-fold since 9/11 as terror groups increasingly recruit and radicalize followers online, citing a foiled Gracie Mansion bombing plot in New York City as an example.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani attended Friday’s 9/11 remembrance at Ground Zero despite a 110,000-signature petition urging him to stay away, drawing rebukes from victims’ families over his ties to controversial figures and his appointment of a former Guantánamo defense lawyer.

A video showing New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez smiling at Friday’s 9/11 Memorial ceremony sparked backlash, though a Giuliani security aide standing nearby says the clip was taken out of context.

A new memoir excerpt from Frank Siller recounts how his brother, off-duty FDNY firefighter Stephen Siller, abandoned golf plans on 9/11 and ran roughly 1.7 miles through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel toward the burning World Trade Center.

With more than 100 million Americans too young to remember Sept. 11, 2001, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in lower Manhattan is expanding classroom programs to teach the 25th anniversary generation what happened that day.