New Yorker writer Ian Frazier takes readers on a twisty and entertaining tour of the Bronx's rich history, landscape and people.

The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York City.

New York City’s five-day streak of no shooting victims ended with a bang with two people hit by gunfire within three hours, police said Friday.

The Brownville and Crown Heights communities are grieving the loss of two young people to gun violence. The NYPD has identified the 15-year-old victim as Heath Campbell and the 21-year-old victim as Nickalos Mitchell.

A man who set out to avenge a slain rapper, but wound up wounding an innocent teen, was sentenced to prison Tuesday for the botched Bronx revenge shooting.

Their jails in their own countries are a lot worse than here. They don’t care about being locked up here, so they should be deported,” said a man in Jackson Heights, Queens.

South Bronx residents voiced their strong opposition—often shouting down members of the Adams administration—regarding the city’s plan to

A man was left bloody and missing several fingers after defending a dog during a machete attack outside of a bodega in the Bronx on Friday, police said. The attack

New York City has launched a housing lottery for 98 affordable units in an 11-story residential building at 1351 Jerome Ave. in the Mount Eden section of the

A Brooklyn man who fired multiple shots at a group of innocent people, believing they were involved in his friend’s murder, was sentenced to seven

A new migrant men’s shelter in the Bronx has residents crying foul, but city officials said at a community board meeting that the plan is moving forward anyway.

This article is copublished by Streetsblog and Curbed.