Tenants in a New York City apartment complex are fighting their landlord’s effort to install a facial recognition system to access parts of the buildings, calling it an affront to their privacy rights.

Mr. Persico, nicknamed the Snake, died in prison. He was serving a combined 139-year sentence after being convicted of leading a vast and violent criminal enterprise.

What's your definition of "adult?" For some, it's a person who talks about work and paying bills on time. For others, it's when you stop having petty arguments and start knowing how to handle sticky situations. Growing up, you may have assumed that…

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A 10-year-old boy followed a man who took his younger sister from their public school in Brooklyn, police said. The man walked into Public School 189 in Brooklyn around 2:20 p.m. on Feb. 7 and grabbed a 6-year-old student by her hand, officials said. The girl's older brother saw what had happened and followed the two until they arrived in front of 318 Rochester Avenue.

A Brooklyn mother was shocked when she picked her son up from his Bushwick school: both of the 6-year-old student's arms were broken. Krystal Alejandro immediately asked school officials what had happened, but no one could explain it. Her son is in the after-school program at P.S. 106 and was in their care at the time. But neither the school nor the after-school program have taken responsibility for the boy during the afternoon playground accident.

A Washington, D.C.-area family has donated more than 1,000 Civil War photographs to the Library of Congress. But you won't find the men in these photos in history books — they were enlisted soldiers; most are unidentified. We set out to learn the story behind one photo subject's military service.

Harris Dickinson is totally chill about playing a Brooklyn bro exploring cruising sites and his sexuality during one hot summer day in the city

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The "Pigtown" field where Jackie Robinson made his major league debut was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

Take a peek (if you dare) at weird wonders from the Morbid Anatomy Museum, which just closed its doors for the last time.

A discarded photo album reveals a rich history of black lives, from the segregated South to Harlem dance halls to a pretty block in Crown Heights. By Annie Correal.

The authors Andrew Coe and Jane Ziegelman prepare a meal based on their research into what Americans ate in years of privation. By Talia Lavin.

A popular bar on Columbia Street in Brooklyn is lifting the weekend drinking age to 25 after patrons’ early morning drunken antics sparked outrage from frustrated neighbors. Isabel Santiago, restaurant manager at Phil’s Crummy Corner at 323 Columbia St., told local media that in the wake of complaints about rowdy crowds, discarded beer bottles on the...

Add another awful incident to the string of apparent hate crimes in New York City: A Brooklyn man has been arrested after he reportedly tried to pull of a woman’s hijab after getting ticked off in an alleged road-rage incident. Michael Isakharov, 40, also shouted anti-Muslim slurs at 22-year-old Gehad Elsayed after the two had a run-in on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn on the morning of November 14. Elsayed she was making room for a driver — now ID’ed as Isakharov — to pull into her lane on the boulevard, when she noticed him staring at her.

The two slumlord brothers who admitted to destroying North Brooklyn apartments in order to force out rent-stabilized tenants were sentenced today in Brooklyn Supreme Court, and were miraculously spared jail time even after pleading guilty. Joel and Amron Israel were arrested in 2015 for incidents dating back to 2013 that include sending a worker to tear out the kitchens and baths and smash thermostat and electric systems in several North Brooklyn buildings.

Bailey was leashed to a chair outside a café. The chair fell. Bailey ran. For days. By Andy Newman.

“I remembered how naked I felt when buyers came to tour the house once we put it up for sale; how obvious it was that the life of a typical Brooklyn family was not being lived there — that the three small bedrooms on the top floor hadn’t been filled with children and wouldn’t be — and I felt, for a moment, naked once more.” By Kim France.