The secluded corner of Queens enjoys an amenity familiar to residents of other cities, but alien to New York: alleyways.

“Border czar” Tom Homan said on Sunday that the immigration officers would help guard exits at the airports, which would free up more TSA agents to staff screening areas. At JFK and LaGuardia airports

The City Council on Monday held a hearing on proposed legislation that seeks to rein in the type of “Big Brother” surveillance that has grown more common in apartment buildings and grocery stores like Macy’s and Wegmans.

Sanitation officials floated deploying mobile cameras to catch scofflaw dog owners.

The MTA’s bathrooms are dens of despair reserved for the city’s most desperate defecators.

“We want to melt because it’s not going to go away anywhere anytime soon,” acting Sanitation Commissioner Javier Lojan declared on Wednesday.

Police say a 24-year-old man was beaten near West End Avenue and West 107th Street and taken to the hospital in stable condition.

The fate of a beloved Lower Manhattan garden hangs in the balance as advocates seek a court order to halt its eviction.

The agreement will bring larger vessels to the Hudson River cruise terminal, raising concerns from some residents about emissions and congestion.

The mayor proposed designating the garden as a city park in a last-ditch effort to prevent its eviction.

The mayoral candidate said he would move forward with affordable housing on the site if elected.

The stunt drew a quick response from the NYPD and Port Authority police.

The site will become green space as part of a broader effort to expand public access to the waterfront.

The isolated Brooklyn-Queens neighborhood has gone decades without basic infrastructure.

The rollout brings the city closer to its goal of getting trash off the sidewalks and into bins.

A box truck ran a red light and struck a van, which then plowed into a group of people on the sidewalk.

A long-contested stretch of the Hudson River Greenway has been reconfigured to reduce conflicts between cyclists and pedestrians.

The victim was struck on a sidewalk in Fort Greene, renewing debate over enforcement of e-bike laws.

An illegal parking lot in Fort Greene had operated for years without a single ticket.

The crash occurred near Fort Greene Park as the victim was walking on the sidewalk.

Residents near the park called 911 as celebratory smoke filled the air following Morocco’s World Cup qualifying win.

The blast knocked out a section of the building’s facade, displacing residents.

A botched oil delivery spilled heaps of fuel across a block of Manhattan’s First Avenue on Monday, forcing emergency crews to direct traffic around the scene in a move that worsened gridlock caused by the ongoing United Nations General Assembly on the East Side.

The annual security sweep around the UN disrupts local businesses and commuters each fall.

The parks department has used a city-owned Bronx lot as an unofficial garbage dump for decades, and locals say the stench has grown so horrendous it’s made a nearby greenway all but unbearable to traverse.

A merchants’ association claims the city failed to conduct adequate environmental review before installing the lane.

The city installed pedestrian safety improvements at a Chinatown intersection that had seen repeated crashes.

NYPD divers and aviation search teams have been searching for a young man who went missing while swimming off Rockaway Beach Friday night, police said.

Police say the driver of a Chevy sedan fatally struck two people near the Manhattan Bridge.

Nine sharks have been spotted since July 1.

“It’s a wild beach,” said Boris Vinokur, 71, as he relaxed on the southwestern shore of the borough looking out onto Raritan Bay. “No lifeguards. We used to climb over [the rocks], kayak. Nice place.”

Many of the borough’s beaches are secluded and lack lifeguards. For many visitors, that’s exactly the point.

The announcement by the mayor’s office is the latest turn in a yearslong legal battle over the fate of the garden.

With room for more than 1,000 swimmers, it’s among the largest public pools in New York City.

The mayor said city enforcement officials have removed more than 100,000 “ghost bikes” and mopeds from city streets.

An area of Harlem is the first to have its trash fully containerized and picked up by automated trucks.

The reopening marks a milestone in the $1.5 billion flood mitigation project.

There’s something for everyone on the Rockaway peninsula. This guide relies on years of reporting and exploring the beach.

The rollout of the technology comes after seven people drowned at the city’s public beaches last summer.

It’ll be easier to reserve a seat on the popular boat to the beach this summer, but it’ll cost more.

A new skatepark, green space and pavilion are part of the proposal for Cadman Plaza.

Parks department officials wrote the statement of values at Sunset Community Garden that sparked the controversy.

The Tony Dapolito Recreation Center has been closed since 2019 due to severe structural damage.

Inspectors found no evidence of vermin at the mayor’s Bedford-Stuyvesant rowhouse.

The parks department’s bike ban will cover the busiest parts of the boardwalk, from Beach 97th to Beach 67th Street.

The new “Empire Bins” are designed to be emptied with modern garbage trucks, and will eventually replace bag piles across the city.

The facility is scheduled to be finished by the end of 2026. Its construction comes after years of advocacy for a modern shelter in the borough.

The warm weather hangout known for outdoor dining, picnicking and live performances faces a temporary closure.

The city Economic Development Corporation is looking for a developer to knock down a crumbling building and replace it with open space.

The old, shabby bus terminal opened to the public back in 1950.

Mayor Eric Adams plans to remove the migrant shelter from the historic site by January 20.

The shooting came just hours after 10 young people were shot outside a party in the Bronx.

Supporters hope the first zone implemented through commercial waste reform makes a visible dent in the city’s trash problem.

The scaffolding at Brooklyn Tech ranks among the oldest in the city, and entire generations of students have attended school beneath it.

The bodies inside were removed in June, but the NYPD sealed the unit until its recent reopening.

The man was struck in the leg and was recovering Friday night, according to the NYPD.

The area was closed off in 2009 and used as a construction work zone.

The $160 million project represents a historically large investment in the park’s northern end.

“This is the most LaGuardia thing and the most Spirit Airlines thing to happen,” one traveler wrote on social media.

A new lawsuit paints one of the clearest pictures to date of what was dumped into the Gowanus Canal over the decades.

Prosecutors say Christian “Coco” Lugo ran a criminal enterprise that scammed insurance companies and warred with competitors.

A last-minute court decision delayed the garden’s eviction, one day before a city marshal was set to clear it out.

A city marshal is permitted to kick the garden out of its city-owned lot in Nolita starting Wednesday.

About a dozen salt spreaders served as security barriers for Biden Wednesday as he addressed the General Assembly.

Another deadly summer at the city’s beaches has led lawmakers to push for more aggressive lifeguard recruitment.

Mayor Eric Adams has pushed a major initiative to clean up the city’s sidewalks and lots, but the pace of enforcement has dropped significantly.

The National Park Service is demolishing Fort Tilden’s building T-9, meaning this will be the final summer that the dilapidated structure, a familiar sight to many beachgoers, will stand.

The rickety 97-year-old ride breaks down from time to time, which locals say is part of its charm.

It’s the latest step in a larger project to create a 32-mile cycling and pedestrian path around Manhattan.

Heavy rains earlier this week have caused unsafe levels of raw sewage.

Five years after developers abandoned the construction of a new charter school in the South Bronx, the lot has become an illegal dumping ground.

Officials say they plan to install “+POOL,” which has been pitched for more than a decade, in the next few years.

Saturday marked the deadline for eateries to apply for the city’s new outdoor dining program, which bans the wooden sheds.

A vigilante who regularly calls attention to toll evasion caused a brief national security scare Tuesday after he ripped off license plate covers from cars assigned to the U.S. Secret Service detail protecting Vice President Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter, prosecutors said.

There’s hardly any room for trash bins or street-side dumpsters on a cramped East Village block.

Tony Dapolito Recreation Center first opened in 1908, but its run as a downtown gym may be nearing an end.

The drowning of two Brooklyn teens at Jacob Riis Park in Rockaway last month served as a grim reminder of the dangers.

The victims included a 16-year-old girl walking with her little sister and an 83-year-old man.

At the Brooklyn school that saw the sharpest drop in math scores in the city since 2019, classrooms are chronically overcrowded, 81% of students have experienced poverty and students recently had to pass through metal detectors before going to class.