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The New York City Police Department said early Thursday three officers were attacked by the suspect in Brooklyn, who stabbed one of the policemen in the neck and then stole a handgun and shot two others before he himself was shot.

A woman from upstate New York was charged with four counts of attempted murder after tossing a molotov cocktail at a New York City Police Department (NYPD) vehicle with several police officers inside as riots raged over the death of George Floyd on Friday evening, according to a local report. 

Protesters and rioters took tumbles during Friday evening’s protests around the country, videos captured and posted online reveal. 

Rioters in Brooklyn rocked and threw a molotov cocktail at a police van abandoned in the middle of a street until it caught on fire.

The New York City Council announced on Thursday that it will no longer allow the “dehumanizing” and “offensive term” “alien” or “illegal immigrant” to describe individuals in the conduction of official city business.

A $21 million field hospital in Brooklyn, New York, authorized by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic opened and closed without seeing any patients.

A video of what appears to be a massive crowd congregating outside a Brooklyn building and twerking on top of cars went viral over the weekend, causing the police to investigate.

The filthy, homeless-ridden New York City subway system is stumbling into the spotlight as the Chinese coronavirus crisis keeps New Yorkers mostly inside their homes and businesses closed.

Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to arrest Jewish mourners not adhering to social distancing decrees following Tuesday’s funeral for Rabbi Chaim Mertz in New York City.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, along with his wife Chirlane McCray, traveled to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park over the weekend, where they took a stroll and were heckled by locals in the area.

A Brooklyn, New York, clothier founded by Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield, a man best known for dressing presidents and celebrities, is making masks to protect New Yorkers from the coronavirus.

A group of individuals who say they don’t “identify” as male or female sued Brooklyn, New York, Democratic Party to end gender designations.

Federal prosecutors say a New York City man coughed on FBI agents and claimed to have the Chinese coronavirus as they arrested him for price gouging on medical supplies. 

A New York City man was spotted yelling from his balcony Sunday at passersby, telling them to “go home” as the number of cases of coronavirus in the city trend upwards, according to a video.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio flouted his own city’s coronavirus guidelines to work out at the Brooklyn YMCA on Monday morning.

Residents of a Brooklyn, New York, community rallied together in support of a teenage victim who had been assaulted by a gang on Thursday, police said.

Police are searching for a group of suspects who allegedly stomped on a teenage girl lying on a sidewalk in Brooklyn, New York, Thursday.

A man accused of raping an 11-year-old girl inside her Brooklyn, New York, home has been arrested, police said.

Democrat New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday in a speech at a Human Rights Campaign gala that he plans to rename a state park in Brooklyn after a trans activist.

A mother was allegedly slashed in the face by a passenger after her child threw up inside a bus in Brooklyn, New York, Tuesday. 

A Brooklyn woman busted for allegedly assaulting three Orthodox Jewish women— even though she was released twice under New York City’s recently implemented bail reform laws— has been charged with committing a federal hate crime.

Democrat New York Mayor Bill de Blasio was roasted on Twitter after he proclaimed his love for whole wheat bagels, toasted, with extra cream cheese from a Brooklyn bagel shop that does not toast their bagels.

Authorities are searching for a man accused of spitting on a woman outside a New York City yeshiva in an alleged antisemitic act that took place on December 24.

An Orthodox Jew was reportedly attacked by several young men in Brooklyn, New York, as he walked down the street December 24.

The Guardian Angels, a volunteer, unarmed group focused on crime prevention, will begin patrolling parts of New York with Jewish communities following a string of antisemitic attacks in the city. 

A suspect accused of assaulting three Orthodox Jewish women in an antisemitic attack was immediately freed from jail without having to post bail thanks to New York’s newest bail laws that provide an instant release to accused criminals.

A man was caught on camera sucker-punching and wrestling a New York City Police (NYPD) officer to the ground in Brooklyn on Thursday, according to a police officer’s body camera footage.

Two groups of teenagers brawled with cops on a Brooklyn, New York, subway platform, leading to five arrests, police said.

A man shoved a woman head first into a subway car at a Brooklyn, New York, subway station on Wednesday night, according to a shocking video of the incident.

A Brooklyn, New York, man accused of sucker-punching a 71-year-old woman allegedly told the cops, “Yes, that’s me,” when they showed him video of the attack, prosecutors said Wednesday.

A suspect brutally sucker-punched an elderly woman while she was walking down a sidewalk in Brooklyn, New York, on September 19. 

An alleged sniper for the Islamic State (ISIS) has been indicted in federal court, the Department of Justice announced on Thursday, years after he was able to obtain American citizenship by arriving in the United States on the “Diversity Visa Lottery.”

Long-time supporters of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio have failed to reach their recruitment goal in support of the 2020 presidential hopeful.

Three New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers were injured by “cop-hating mobs” outside a Brooklyn housing project on Sunday, according to a report.

NYPD police commissioner James O’Neill said Sunday that the department will find the suspect who opened fire at a Brooklyn block party Saturday night. 

Democratic socialist and Brooklyn state senator Julia Salazar was allegedly supporting herself with money from a trust fund during her 2018 campaign.