NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – Bomb threats made to at least two synagogues in New York City were deemed not credible, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul and police. Threats of explosives were emailed to two synagogues in Manhattan Saturday, according to the NYPD. One on the Upper West Side was evacuated “out of an abundance of caution” and another in Midtown was unoccupied, according to police.  ..read more

MANHATTAN (PIX11) -- How do you say thank you to a man who’s been part of the fabric of Upper East Side life for three decades? You throw a party for him at the restaurant where he’s worked since the 1990s. He’s part of my family,” Philip Philips, the former owner of The Mansion Restaurant, told PIX11 News.  ..read more

GREENWICH VILLAGE, N.Y. (PIX11) -- After police shut down tent encampments at two more New York City colleges on Friday morning, protests against the actions took place, involving far more people than had been involved in the encampments. Organizers and participants said that it was an indication that the crackdown only serves to enhance and enlarge their protest movement.  NYU calls in NYPD to clear out pro-Palestinian protest encampment The work crews were next to about a half-dozen NYPD officers and NYU public safety agents who stood behind metal barricades. The barriers had ..read more

NEW YORK (PIX11) --- A veteran ESU sergeant accidentally discharged his gun with his off-hand while officers were clearing pro-Palestinian protesters in Hamilton Hall at Columbia University Tuesday night, authorities said Friday. The incident happened in a dark-lit, unoccupied part of the building where officers were trying to get into a locked office to ensure it was empty, according to Chief Carlos Valdez, commanding officer of ESU. After cops broke the office's non-transparent window, the sergeant moved the weapon from his right hand to his left so he could unlock the door fr ..read more

MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) – The NYPD is clearing out a protest encampment on the NYU campus Friday morning, according to NYPD Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry. "In the event the protesters do not vacate the site voluntarily, we request the NYPD take enforcement action accordingly up to and including arrest," NYU administrators wrote to the NYPD. The protesters began camping out on campus on April 26, according to NYU ..read more

MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) – A man had $20,000 in cash stolen from him during a cryptocurrency exchange at a Manhattan hotel last Saturday, according to the NYPD. The 40-year-old man told police his friend set up a meeting for him to exchange the cash for crypto inside the Sonder Battery Park Hotel around 5 p.m. A man met the victim in the lobby and walked with him to room 315, according to authorities. Once they were at the door, the man shoved the victim into the room where two other men were waiting, police said. The three men punched and tied the victim up with tape around his ankles, wrist a ..read more

MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, Manhattan (PIX11) – An NYPD officer's gun was accidentally fired while protesters were being removed from a Columbia University building on Tuesday night, according to authorities. Columbia's administration asked the NYPD to handle protesters inside Hamilton Hall. No one was injured after the shot was fired, police said ..read more

NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump heard a recording Thursday of him discussing with his then-lawyer and personal fixer a plan to purchase the silence of a Playboy model who has said she had an affair with the former president. A visibly irritated Trump leaned forward at the defense table, and jurors appeared riveted as prosecutors played the September 2016 recording that attorney Michael Cohen secretly made of himself briefing his celebrity client on a plan to buy Karen McDougal's story of an extramarital relationship ..read more

MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS -- On Thursday, new images and new information about police removing protesters from an academic building they'd seized at Columbia University brought one question to the fore: how much influence do demonstrators from outside of college communities have on protests on campuses?  The question is being analyzed by law enforcement, students, and college administrators alike, even as protests continue at colleges and universities all over the New York City area.  Answering readers’ questions about the protest movement on US college campuses Columbia said in a statemen ..read more

NEW YORK (PIX11)—Migrant children acting as street or subway vendors are becoming a common sight in New York City.  Selling fruits, candy, beverages, and other snacks ..read more