New Yorker writer Ian Frazier takes readers on a twisty and entertaining tour of the Bronx's rich history, landscape and ...

The city laid out a series of proposals to reduce cancer deaths by 20 percent, and deaths from heart- and diabetes-related ...

Peter Forrest was the charismatic lead singer of 24-7 Spyz, which did shows with Jane’s Addiction. Last week, Mr. Forrest, 64 ...

A pint-sized gangbanger who allegedly sparked a bloody turf war brazenly told a pal in the courtroom to go “smoke that weed!” ...

Rakeem Young, 34, was walking his dog, Chanel, in the Bronx on Friday, Jan. 24, when a man wielding a machete attacked him ...

The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York City.

The dude just swung the knife at me for no apparent reason,” victim Rakeem Tayquon Young said from his hospital bed Sunday.

Murder suspect Sharief Bodden served four years in state prison on a Bronx attempted-robbery conviction before he was ...

Green Middle School in the Bronx. “Caleb, we love you ... and he was the kind of person people gravitated toward — a life lost too soon.