Today is Thursday, Sept. 4, the 247th day of 2025. There are 118 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 4, 1949, more than 140 people were injured following a performance by singer Paul Robeson in Peekskill, New York, as an anti-Communist mob attacked departing concertgoers. Also on this date: In 1781,… Read More »
Today’s first day back in school for New York City public school kids is always a happy one to see friends again and a sad one to be leaving behind summer break, but today’s first day is the first day without any smartphones or other distracting electronic devices. Kids may be sad at first without… Read More »
Seeing the orange-and-white envelope sticking from my car’s windshield almost sent me into a rage. I had just come out of a lunch with a client and her friend and was about to give them a lift downtown. Then I almost screamed, but instead muttered, “How could the [bleeping] traffic agent be so [bleeping] stupid?… Read More »
Our family’s loss deserves more than ridicule Bronx: Re “Escaped from Correx in ’24” (Sept. 2): My family is devastated by the loss of my brother James Mossetty, who was struck and dragged for more than two miles by a taxi driver who admitted he was at the end of a 12-hour shift and did… Read More »
Dear Eric: My husband sings at the top of his lungs to any song that is playing in a movie or a commercial or in the car or otherwise. It’s like nails on a chalkboard for me. I’ve tried telling him, but he takes offense. He tells me everyone tells him he has perfect pitch… Read More »
Police are on the hunt for a man who tried to rape a woman inside a Manhattan nail salon. The attacker approached a 34-year-old woman and sexually assaulted her in a salon at W. 36th St. and Broadway in Midtown at 6 p.m. Monday, cops said. NYPD released photos of a man who attempted to… Read More »
NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of a posthumous memoir by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre says it has agreed on a final draft with family members after they publicly objected to the book’s release. Surviving relatives of Giuffre had worried that “Nobody’s Girl” presented an outdated and unduly positive portrait of her marriage, which… Read More »
HOUSTON — Even in Texas, Devin Williams could not escape the wrath of Yankees fans. The embattled reliever left the mound to a chorus of boos after being pulled by Aaron Boone on Wednesday night, as he walked in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning of what became an 8-7 loss for the Bombers.… Read More »
An elderly woman died and two firefighters were injured Wednesday night in a blaze inside a 35-story apartment building in Harlem, FDNY officials said. Some 78 firefighters and EMS personnel rushed to the building on East 122nd St. and 2nd Ave. at 6:59 p.m., where a fire had erupted on the 19th floor — and… Read More »
A young teen was killed Tuesday when a deer ricocheted off another car and into the passenger-side windshield as the boy was being driven to school. Kevin Donohue was riding in a vehicle going west on State Route 322 around 7:15 a.m. when a deer sprang in front of a car traveling east in the… Read More »