NEW YORK — State Assemblymember Claire Valdez prevailed in the tumultuous primary to succeed retiring Rep. Nydia Velázquez, notching the Democratic Socialists of America a win in one of the left’s ...

Primary Voters Pick Civil Court Winners in Queens and Brooklyn Edmond Wong and Julie Milner won the Democratic primaries for two countywide seats on the Queens Civil Court bench, according to ...

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Parts of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will be closed this weekend as the city carries out "necessary repair and replacement work," the Department of Transportation says. The Queens-bound BQE will be ...

QOTSA also have UK/EU dates with System of a Down this month, and will be out with their old buddies Foo Fighters in August ...

Queens Assembly Member Claire Valdez has won the Democratic primary in New York’s 7th Congressional District, defeating a crowded field and moving closer to replacing retiring Rep. Nydia Velázquez.

Fifty years after the release of their eponymous debut album, Queen retains a space near the epicenter of pop culture. It’s not just that guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor are preparing to ...

The proposal is the latest attempt to complete Atlantic Yards, a project near Downtown Brooklyn that includes building housing over a rail yard. It has been in progress for decades. By Mihir Zaveri ...

Traffic was shut down on the Gowanus Expressway where it meets the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway early Tuesday after debris spilled onto the roadway. Eastbound lanes were closed at the Hamilton Avenue ...

This Fourth of July marks the Semiquincentennial — the 250th anniversary of the 1776 adoption of the Declaration of Independence — celebrating the birth of the United States as an independent nation.

Elected officials are lauding the work of law enforcement in what is considered the largest gang takedown in Brooklyn history. Nearly two-dozen suspects are now off the streets after being charged ...