WNYC Newsroom

A four-alarm fire tore through a water treatment plant in Harlem Wednesday afternoon and caused the evacuation of Riverside State Park at 135th Street and Riverside Drive.

The same day the results of an autopsy revealed the 8-year-old boy abducted from a Brooklyn street last week was drugged before he was smothered to death, a grand jury indicated 35-y...

At least two people were injured when a helicopter made an emergency landing behind a school in central New Jersey on Wednesday.

The state comptroller ripped the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for what he said was a failure to fully vet more than $1  billion in outsourced contracts. 

A Columbia University student has admitted to selling cocaine as part of what authorities called a take-down of drug dealing on campus.

New York City will hold a lottery for couples who want to get married on Sunday — the first day same-sex marriage will be legal, the mayor said Tuesday.

The FBI raided homes in New York during an investigation into the hacker group Anonymous.

New Yorkers getting a mortgage will pay the highest closing costs in the country for the second year in a row, according to Bankrate.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie plans to restore $139 million in aid to New Jersey's financially distressed cities.

A cousin of accused would-be terrorist Najibullah Zazi publicly admitted for the first time Monday that he was in on Zazi's alleged 2009 plot to blow up New York City subway cars.

Rupert Murdoch, his son James and former top aide Rebekah Brooks testified before parliament Tuesday during a dramatic hearing in which the media mogul told lawmakers he was not res...

A father lied to the FBI to try to protect his terrorist son during an investigation into the 2009 plot to attack the city's subways, prosecutors claimed during opening arguments in his trial in Brooklyn Monday.

A blown tire was likely what caused a tour bus to veer off a highway and overturn in western New York, killing two passengers and seriously injuring three others on Sunday, state police said.

Les Hinton, the chief executive of Dow Jones, resigned Friday, the latest fallout from the media giant's phone hacking scandal.

Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation that will allow the United Nations to expand its Manhattan facilities onto the public parkland adjacent to its headquarters.

The suspect in the grisly killing of an 8-year old Brooklyn boy was arraigned on charges of murder and kidnapping in the first degree Thursday as law enforcement officials revealed more details of the gruesome slaying.

A judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the Roger Clemens perjury trial over inadmissible evidence days. 

A ruling from a state Supreme Court judge could mean delays for the controversial Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn. The ruling will force the state-controlled entity in charge of the development to take a second look at the project's environmental footprint.

A federal judge has blocked New York City from enforcing a new law designed to force pregnancy centers to disclose what services they offer.

Thousands of Hasidic Jews flocked to Borough Park Wednesday night for the funeral of Leiby Kletzky, the 8-year-old boy who was found dead and dismembered on Wednesday morning.