That sound you hear from City Hall these days is a political leader hastily returning to his roots as an NYPD cop. With less than 90 days until the start of early voting, Adams is staking his reelection bid on falling crime numbers, arguing to voters that he has made New York safer and can continue to do so if he gets another four years in office.

PITTSFIELD — A New York City man has been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for raping a girl in 2017 in Lee. David Gonzalez, 69, of Staten Island, was convicted last week in Berkshire Superior Court in connection with the incident, which prosecutors said took place in July 2017.

An off-duty US Customs and Border Protection officer was shot in a Manhattan park on Saturday following an apparent robbery gone wrong, New York City police and federal officials said.

NYC, alongside Los Angeles and Chicago police departments, is leading the nation in using drone units, which are viewed with suspicion by civil rights groups.

An off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and wounded just before midnight on Sunday in a New York City park.

A leading Manhattan congressman who has taken the subway for years and the transportation secretary, who frequently criticizes the system, clashed over how dangerous it is at a House hearing in Washington.

The suspect in the July 7 shooting, identified as 27-year-old Ryan Louis Mosqueda, fired "many rounds" at the federal building that houses the U.S. Border Patrol office at the McAllen International Airport, according to McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez.

House Republicans took their attack on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to New York City on Monday, holding a hearing on what they say is a local crime crisis, a move Democrats lambasted as ...