Investigations

In the shadow of JFK Airport, on a desolate stretch behind barbed wire, is Building 197 — a sprawling warehouse that is being prepared as the next home for new asylum seekers, according to city hall. It could soon house as many as 1,000 migrants.

Officers are increasingly sounding the alarm about the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark. Sarah Wallace reports.

News 4’s Sarah Wallace reports.

Over the past week, neighbors started seeing activity at Lincoln Correctional Facility, an former jail in Harlem — a state facility that Gov. Kathy Hochul gave the OK Sunday to temporarily house migrants. “I think it’s important to give people a safe place to live and if people are coming seeking a better life. I think we should t...

Did Sen. Robert Menendez and his wife get the use of a Mercedes and an apartment in Washington, D.C.? A spokesman for the senator declined to answer those questions, but NBC New York has learned these questions are part of the growing criminal investigation of the New Jersey Democrat. The I-Team’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

Investigators want to know if the gifts – which would be valued in the tens of thousands of dollars – came from the owner or associates of IS EG Halal, an Edgewater business that won a controversial exclusive contract to perform Halal meat certification with Egypt, sources said.

A group of hotel owners is suing New York counties that have blocked NYC’s plan to relocate asylum seekers. Suburban hotel owners say they made a deal with the city to provide lodging to migrants in need of help and they say politically motivated county leaders are illegally blocking them from keeping their end of that deal. NBC New York&#821...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams asked a judge on Tuesday to let the city suspend its long-standing “right to shelter” obligation, saying officials are no longer able to house every homeless person because of the arrival of tens of thousands of international migrants.

Five years before a New York doctor was criminally charged with sexually abusing underage boys, one of the urologist’s former patients notified the state’s Health Department about alleged misconduct that closely mirrors the kind of abuse now detailed in a federal indictment against the physician.

Around Manhattan and elsewhere in New York City, hotels that served tourists just a few years ago have become de facto emergency shelters.

After spending nearly 22 years locked up in New York state penitentiaries, Efraim Diaz is on parole — and on a mission to clear his name.

New York State lawmakers are eyeing a crackdown on new drivers who violate the terms of their learners permits — a proposal that comes after a series of recent deadly collisions involving unlicensed drivers.

New York State lawmakers are eyeing a crackdown on new drivers who violate the terms of their learners permits after a series of recent deadly collisions involving unlicensed drivers. Melissa Russo reports.