New York City

New York City pro-wrestler John Rodriguez has fought the greats like Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper, but his latest opponent caught him off-guard fighting for his life outside the arena after a silent heart attack.

A photo of another person with the same name led to the wrongful arrest of a New York City man who has spent more than 18 years behind bars for murder, prosecutors said Thursday as they moved to vacate the conviction.

Two gay men who ended up dead with their bank accounts drained after leaving New York City bars last year were both homicide victims, authorities said Friday. The men died in separate incidents.

The tradition of getting a quick polish from a rag-toting shoeshiner is greatly diminished, and many stands similar to those in Penn Station and Grand Central have disappeared throughout NYC — and across the country

New York City’s Department of Transportation swung and missed with a road sign for the Jackie Robinson Parkway that misspelled the baseball Hall of Famer’s first name.

Viktoria Nasyrova, 47, was convicted of attempted murder and other charges for poisoning another woman who looked like her with a sedative-laced cheesecake before stealing from her in a bizarre case that took place in 2016, prosecutors said.

New York City’s latest weapon in its fight against street noise is a traffic camera equipped with a sound meter.

Several groups have flocked to the waterway off Manhattan in search of treasure. That’s after hearing a guest on podcast host Joe Rogan’s show make a claim that a boxcar’s worth of prehistoric bones brought to New York City from Alaska was thrown into the East River in the 1940s.

Over three months since the first bus of asylum-seeking migrants arrived in Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and New York City Mayor Eric Adams penned a letter to Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, demanding the state stop bussing migrants to Chicago and New York.

The 32-year-old actor passed away in August after starring in the Cannes Film Festival hit “Triangle of Sadness.”

The group would then charge drivers $10 to be put to the front of the line to get a fare.

Pet shops have argued that the law will do nothing to shut down out-of-state breeders or increase their standards of care and said it would result in the closures of the dozens of pet stores remaining in New York.

December is typically a boon for Broadway. The familiar sight of theaters packed to the brim and tourists clutching their playbills and keepsake mementos from the Big Apple are telltale signs of the holiday season. Instead, this season a pair of exciting new productions are lowering their stage curtains for the final time, only weeks after premiering on “The Great…

The sudden closures have fans and many in the Broadway community worried about the future of diversity in theater.

The musical is about classic fairy tale princesses — Cinderella, Snow White and Little Mermaid, among them — who are transformed after reading “The Feminine Mystique,” a landmark feminist text.

Hate rats? Are you a “somewhat bloodthirsty” New Yorker with excellent communication skills and “a general aura of badassery”? Then you might have what it takes to be the city’s new rat czar.

The family of a fallen World War II hero from New York City can finally get a bit of closure, after the soldier’s remains were identified nearly 80 years after he died during the war.

A Utah man is facing federal charges after allegedly carrying a razor blade on an airplane and assaulting another passenger with it on a New York City-to-Salt Lake City flight, authorities said.

Two teenage siblings are being credited with helping save their younger brother from a potential kidnapper aboard the subway in Manhattan, according to police.

Officials are offering a warning to those going for a walk in Central Park: Watch your step, because you might step on a bat.