On average, it takes five to seven years to develop and implement a new FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map. As a result, many maps across the U.S. are significantly out of date, often failing to reflect ...

NYPD seeks a suspect for two sexual assaults in Manhattan, using a deceptive ploy to attack women on Houston and Thompson Streets, urges public assistance.

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A 35-year resident of New York, Luis Fernandez, a server at Square Diner, was in the process of renewing his green card ...

It's the time of year when the setting sun lines up perfectly with New York City's street grid, creating a stupendous solar ...

The Prince’s Bay Lighthouse is one of New York City’s oldest surviving lighthouse complexes. Historically known as the Red ...

Jack Kirby has a legacy like no other — and considering one of his most beloved creations, The Fantastic Four, is getting an ...

On Friday night, July 8, 1887, electricity crackled through the air in more ways than one. A full moon hung overhead, but its ...

That’s what led the former political science and law student to pivot into making cakes and eventually start an Instagram ...

From New York’s many New Year’s “sports and entertainments”—including football games, an open house at the Young Men’s ...

The MTA's new "rush" bus routes in Queens make fewer stops in busy downtown areas to avoid wasted time merging in and out of ...

An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy doctor ...