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Children ages 5 to 11 will likely be able to get their COVID-19 shots next month after an advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration voted in favor of authorizing the Pfizer vaccine for all children in this age group on Tuesday.

Elected officials hitched a ride all the way to jail with angry taxi drivers who blocked streets outside City Hall Monday to protest a debt bailout plan they said doesn’t go far enough.

A car crashed into a funeral home in Brooklyn on Tuesday, and police say the driver may have been involved in a carjacking. The blue sedan crushed a fence outside House of Hills Funeral Home on St. John’s Place in Crown Heights  around 6:30 p.m.

Police Benevolent Association lawyers filed a lawsuit in Staten Island court to halt the mandate scheduled to take effect Friday.

Hundreds of new affordable housing units have come to Brownsville, thanks to local do-gooders who paid millions to develop the long-time-coming Ebenezer Plaza development.

A group of protesters gathered outside Barclays Center waving flags and signs while chanting, "No vaccine mandate, stand with Kyrie" before the Brooklyn Nets lost their home opener to Charlotte Hornets 111-95 on Sunday.

Puerto Rico has endured a lot over the years. This includes state-sponsored violence , natural disasters and social engineering by the government over the past century. Poverty remains widespread, and its status as a U.S.

New Yorkers went to the polls over the weekend for the first days of early voting in the city’s general election â€" and as expected, the turnout wasn’t at the fever pitch the city experienced during last year’s presidential race.

Brooklynites heading to the polls this November will see four names on their ballot in the borough president race. One of them will be Council Member Antonio Reynoso, who beat out 12 candidates in the Democratic primary this June.

A manhunt is underway after four people were shot outside a store on a crowded street in Brooklyn Thursday morning. The gunfire rang out on Glenwood Road just off Nostrand Avenue in Flatbush around 10:30 a.m.