Mirela Iverac

The Obama administration deported a record number of undocumented immigrants for the third consecutive year, according to data released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday.

A second suspect has been apprehended in a string of 20 sexual assaults that have taken place in Brooklyn since March, according to the police.

Groping attacks seemingly have spread across the city, with nearly 40 reported attacks in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens over the past few months. But experts and law enforcement officials say this doesn’t necessarily mean there are more sexual assaults occurring on the city’s streets.

Next to geographical area and the perpetrator’s appearance, law enforcement looks into a number of factors when establishing a pattern, such as the way the attacker approaches his v...

To mark the tenth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan war, a coalition of peace groups gathered in Times Square to demand an end to the war.

Protesters have been camped out at Zuccotti Park since September 17. As the protests have grown, so has their footprint in the park. They have transformed the public space into their ...

It was the rarest of occurrences: a sitting mayor taking the stand in a trial against a man charged with stealing over $1 million from him.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg testified Monday against a former campaign operative accused of bilking him out of more than $1 million, with the mayor saying he thought the money was being spent on a poll-monitoring operation and never intended for the consultant to end up with it.

At 75, Frank Serpico has come a long way from the days when he exposed rampant corruption in the New York Police Department in the 1960s, got shot in the face during a drug bust and subsequently made famous by Al Pacino’s portrayal in Sidney Lumet’s 1973 classic biopic.

With one in five New Yorkers now living in poverty, the need for civil legal services will increase. Already each year more than 2.3 million of the city’s poor residents navigate th...

As the U.S. scrambled to avoid a showdown at the United Nations over the Palestinian bid for statehood, belief that the new initiative will not bear any fruit prevailed in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, home of New York’s Little Palestine.

A task force created to recommend improvements to a federal immigration program presented a critical report this week, saying the program, Secure Communities, has had an "adverse impact" on community policing and caused confusion at the state and local level.

New Yorkers remained largely unfazed by the news that a credible, but uncorroborated terrorism threat had been made against the city to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks — prompting heightened security around the five boroughs.

New Yorkers remained largely unfazed by the news that a credible but uncorroborated terrorism threat had been made against the city to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks — prompting heightened security around the five boroughs.

The scene of a deadly shooting — Park Place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn — that left two people dead and hospitalized two police officers Monday appeared to return to near normalcy by ...

Two days after hurricane Irene brought New York’s mass transit to a standstill for the first time in its history, passengers at the city’s major transit hubs were scrambling in its aftermath despite partial restoration of service.

After Tropical Storm Irene forced the closure of the city's mass transit system, commuters braced for delays and frustration during the morning commute Monday as most subway and bus service was restored but rail lines remained suspended. 

 

As Hurricane Irene churns toward Northeast, U.S. Navy bases in the tri-state area began preparations to avoid a potentially catastrophic event.

Since mid-May, when the Manhattan District Attorney presented the initial account of an alleged encounter between the former International Monetary Fund chief and a hotel housekeeper,...

A new bill that would limit the cooperation between local jails and federal immigration enforcement was introduced in the City Council on Wednesday.