Thomas Tracy

NEW YORK — Actor Alec Baldwin smacked away a phone belonging to an anti-Israeli protester who cornered him at a Manhattan coffee shop demanding he say "Free Palestine," a recently surfaced video of the exchange shows.

Columbia University extended a deadline overnight for student protesters to clear their campus antiwar tent encampment, giving them another 48 hours to pull up stakes and leave, school officials said Wednesday.

The drivers then pursued each other over the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan, where they repeatedly cut each other off as they continued their argument.

NYPD Assistant Chief James McCarthy, the head of Patrol Borough Manhattan South, was helping two cops in riot gear complete the arrest of

The search of the woods off the Long Island Expressway near Exit 70 in Manorville began Tuesday and continued Wednesday.

NEW YORK — Detectives investigating Long Island's Gilgo Beach serial slayings have launched a painstaking search in a thatch of woods nearly 50 miles from where the victims' bodies were discovered, according to reports.

Loading your audio article An NYPD chief blasted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wednesday over her criticisms of police treatment of Columbia

In one of the two incidents, a Columbia University protester set the flag on fire after a rock was thrown at its owner, police said.

A New York City Parks employee was arrested after he was caught driving a “ghost car” through Staten Island, officials said Friday.

NEW YORK — The NYPD is investigating two recent Israeli flag thefts in Manhattan as hate crimes amid pro-Palestinian protests over the Gaza conflict continue to grip the city , officials said Friday.