New York

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of people have lined up in New York City as rapper Cardi B handed out free winter coats. The Bronx-born rapper met with residents and fans on Thursday evening at the Marlboro Houses in Brooklyn during brisk fall weather. The 26-year-old also was given balloons and a cake to celebrate […]

His mother also has some words for Teresa Klein.

A New Yorker is going viral after he accused his “n-word” Lyft driver of being, “racist against gay people.” Robert Ortiz, who is a gay man, got into Lyft with two friends after leaving a gay club. At some point during the drive, the three men reportedly asked the driver, named Shan Pepas Lettman, to play […]

After viewing a video of the boy accidentally bumping up against her, Teresa Klein admitted that she made a mistake.

SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — The limousine service under scrutiny after a crash that killed 20 people fixed safety violations in its fleet before the tragedy, said a lawyer who suggested the driver was unfamiliar with the rural road. Prestige Limousine has been criticized for maintaining vehicles rife with violations and for employing a driver lacking […]

[UPDATE: 12:30 PM ET] NEW YORK (AP) — New York governor says limo in crash that killed 20 failed an inspection last month, was not supposed to be on the road. — SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — The site of a devastating wreck that killed two pedestrians and 18 occupants of a limousine headed to a […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Denzel Washington joined the Boys & Girls Club of America when he was 5. He’s never really left. The 63-year old Oscar-winning actor says the lessons he learned from the youth organization became the foundation of his success. One valuable lesson came after a track and field event where Washington found […]

Cardi B was all smiles following her arrest in New York for having two women jumped at a club in Queens. The rapper was arrested on Monday and charged with two misdemeanors, assault and reckless endangerment, after turning herself into New York police. Her mugshot was taken and she was fingerprinted, ET reported. The outlet noted that Cardi will appear in […]

The wife of a wealthy NYC banker is being sued after she allegedly accidentally sent a racist text to her new Black nanny—then fired her, fearing “revenge.” Lynsey Plasco-Flaxman was reportedly horrified when her nanny service sent her a black caregiver in 2016.…so much so that when nanny Giselle Maurice showed up for her first day of work, the mother-of-two sent […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A 52-year-old caregiver was charged in the knife attack on five people, including three newborn babies, at a home that was apparently being used as an unlicensed nursery for new mothers and their children. Yufen Wang, of Flushing, Queens, was arraigned Monday on charges of attempted murder and criminal possession of […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say three infants and two adults were stabbed at an overnight day care center in New York City. All are in critical but stable condition. Authorities say the stabbings happened just before 4 a.m. Friday at a home in Queens. They say a 3-day-old girl and a 1-month-old girl were […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Letitia James, a longtime New York City politician with ties to both the state’s underclass and its elites, beat three other candidates in a Democratic primary for attorney general on Thursday, then turned her sights on the man she saw as her real opponent: President Donald Trump. “This campaign was really […]