A 15-year-old New York City teen who was struck by lightning in Central Park has opened up on the incident, indicating that he feels “lucky” the electric shock didn’t cause him too much harm.

- Make it a clean sweep of coaches fired at Madison Square Garden this spring.

A version of this article appears in print on June 26, 2025, Section B, Page 11 of the New York edition with the headline: Bobby Sherman, 81, Easygoing Teen Idol of the 1960s and ’70s, Dies.

His meteoric rise to become New York City’s chief law enforcement officer was later tarnished after he pleaded guilty to federal corruption and tax crimes.

Longtime New York journalist and activist Tom Robbins died on Tuesday at the age of 76. For over four decades, Robbins’s work exposed the dark side of New York institutions, including corrupt ...

A two-vehicle crash in New York on Thursday resulted in the death of a Williamstown woman and multiple injuries.

NEW YORK — Former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, an outspoken, gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat who spent nearly five decades on Capitol Hill and was a founding member of the Congressional ...

Police in NYC have suspended their search for a teen reported missing in the East River off Roosevelt Island.

Ex-New York Rep. Joe Crowley’s 25-year-old son Cullen — a Marine and Naval Academy grad — has died from a rare cancer, his grieving dad revealed over the Memorial Day weekend.

Another teenager was arrested Wednesday on murder and other charges in connection with a deliberate hit-and-run that targeted a bicyclist, Albuquerque police said.

Bernard Kerik, who served as New York City’s police commissioner on 9/11 and later pleaded guilty to tax fraud before being pardoned, has died.