Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the numbers on Tuesday. Officials attributed the rise in rapes in part to a change in the state definition of sexual assault.

Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who was captured early Saturday during a U.S. military operation, has arrived at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City, where he will soon be booked along with his wife,

Life in New York is filled with grace notes—which is why it’s been the backdrop for some of the most hilarious, inspiring, romantic, and deeply moving moments in film.

Fares will also increase on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad, as will tolls at several of the city’s bridges and tunnels.

One of the New York City-area's most notorious serial killers has confessed to another killing. Police in New Jersey announced Tuesday that Richard Cottingham, known as the “Torso Killer," admitted killing Alys Eberhardt in 1965.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday said that he took the oath during his inauguration using an 18th-century Quran copied in Ottoman Syria. According to Mamdani, the manuscript belonged to Arturo Schomburg, a Puerto Rican-born Black scholar and bibliophile, who sold his collection of 4,000 books to the New York Public Library in 1926.

The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn houses hundreds of detainees awaiting trial. They include high-profile people like Luigi Mangione and rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine.

From January 20 through February 12, theatre fans can buy 2-for-1 tickets for their favorite musicals and plays on Broadway in New York City.