A three-alarm fire broke out in a church in the Rockaways Saturday afternoon. More than 100 firefighters and EMS medics responded to a blaze that started around 2 p.m. at St. Edmund Church near Rockaway Point Blvd. in Breezy Point. The fire burned through the roof of the church, FDNY said. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries in the incident as the fire was placed under control at 3:30 p.m. It remained unclear what sparked the blaze as FDNY personnel are still investigating. Tom Fox, the former CEO of New Water...

NEW YORK — The Rev. Juan Carlos Ruiz led a grave procession around around a Brooklyn block on Good Friday. The 60 people ‒ with a mariachi group ‒ walked near the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. That's where Ruiz serves an immigrant, mostly Latino, congregation in the Bay Ridge neighborhood. The band played somber hymns marking Good Friday, a mournful day during Holy Week. But the procession carried even more weight this year. On a gray afternoon as people got out of work, they performed the Stations of the Cross,...

Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is set to serve a deliciously decadent Dubai Chocolate Sundae for one day only. The shop at the Empire State Building will begin serving the limited-edition dessert on Saturday, April 26 at 12 p.m. and dish it out until supplies last. The rich and creamy concoction is a fusion of Ghirardelli’s world-famous hot fudge mixed in with layers of vanilla ice cream, a mixture of pistachio butter, white chocolate, and kataifi — shredded phyllo. Forget a cherry on top. This delicacy is topped with a gold-leafed Ghirardelli...

Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. For nearly four years, a dog named Shawn has been patiently waiting for a second chance at love—and a home to call his own. Shawn, a 5-year-old terrier mix, has spent more than 1,400 days at the Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter in Wantagh, New York. Despite being overlooked time and again, his spirit remains unbroken. In a recent video shared by the shelter, Shawn lit up as a volunteer approached his...

During the pandemic, Manhattan lawyer William Weiss headed upstate to Hillsdale, New York, where he rented multiple homes before purchasing 100 acres in nearby Copake in 2022. The property, near the Massachusetts border, has a pond and a collection of four barns dating back from the 1800s, all of which have now been converted into functional dwellings that include a 12-room house, a free-standing guesthouse, a studio and a garage. “The home itself is unique,” Weiss said about the 3,351-square-foot post-and-beam barn he now calls home. He asked Great Barrington,...

Bellerose: Recently, my wife and I spent time with our friends Dave and Marian. Dave and I have known each other for more than 50 years since we were 13 years old and lived in Queens Village in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. Our conversation centered on our memories of it. I lived on 213th St. and 102nd Ave. in a house bought by my grandfather in 1924. I remembered my father taking me to 99th Ave. There were two junk yards where I could take used newspapers and get...

A seven-year-old boy with autism who went missing from a restaurant in Queens Friday morning has been reunited with his mother after the tyke turned up hours later in Manhattan, police said. The boy, who is nonverbal, disappeared from Dera Restaurant in Jackson Heights around 11:45 a.m., police said. He had been having breakfast with his mother at the South Asian eatery and slipped away when she went to the bathroom to wash her hands. The boy’s mother quickly reported him missing and police combed the borough looking form him....

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals said it is working to determine a path forward for its treatment of several retinal conditions after the Food and Drug Administration said it didn't agree with the company's proposal to extend the interval between doses. The FDA told Regeneron in a complete response letter that while it didn't identify any issues with the safety or efficacy of the drug in its approved indications and dosing regimens, the agency didn't agree with Regeneron's proposal to add additional extended dosing intervals The company previously submitted a supplemental biologics license...

A 50-year-old Queens raped by a masked creep in a “Ghost Face” sweatshirt from the “Scream” horror movie franchise managed to call her adult daughter, who ran over and interrupted the attack on a secluded residential block in Queens, prosecutors said Friday. Rody Morales Cu was on top of his victim when the woman’s 25-year-old daughter ran up and screamed at him, scaring him off, according to court documents released during Cu’s arraignment on rape and sex abuse charges. A Queens criminal court judge ordered Cu, 20, held without bail...

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