As renters and buyers alike continue to seek affordability, space and modern amenities, Brooklyn and Queens are primed to outshine Manhattan in 2025. From the historic rowhouses of Ridgewood to the sleek waterfront towers of Long Island City,

A 19-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman were both blasted in the brazen Dec. 28 afternoon shooting near Riverdale Ave. and Strauss St. in Brownsville.

A masked serial arsonist callously set a blaze next to a dozing subway passenger during a bizarre hour-long spree across Manhattan and Queens last week, police said.

For the second year in a row, Ridgewood, Queens, has earned the top spot on StreetEasy’s list of Neighborhoods to Watch in 2025.

The NYPD said they are looking for an unusual robbery suspect who has struck nearly a dozen times in Brooklyn and Queens — with how he picks his victims and how the robberies go down certainly being atypical.

NYC families are struggling as the Department of Education won't renew leases for five early childhood centers.

At least four other early child care centers were notified that their leases will not be renewed, according to the City Council and the Brooklyn borough president’s office. The facilities offer an array of early childhood offerings, in some cases serving kids from birth, as well as 3-K, pre-K and kindergarten programs.

New York City has shuttered a sprawling tent complex erected on a remote former airport and announced the closure of other major shelters housing asylum seekers in its latest efforts to shrink an emergency housing built up in response to a surge of migration that’s now receding.

Cortez, along with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, announced on Jan. 7 that President Joe Biden has signed their legislation into law to address severe flooding in Queens.

Three suspects broke into drug stores across northeastern Queens — from Flushing to Fresh Meadows — in eight incidents in December, according to the NYPD. Police said the suspects gained entry by breaking glass front doors or busting through locked roll-down gates, and stole cash, lottery tickets and drugs including morphine and aspirin.

The suspect is accused of setting a sleeping woman's clothes on fire, using his shirt to fan the flames and then sitting on a platform bench nearby.

Fivio Foreign recently stirred up some chatter during an appearance on Justin Laboy’s podcast when he declared that Queens has the most beautiful women in New York.