After 18 months, the Coney Island cyclone screeched to life once again Friday. Some of the first to ride the iconic wooden roller coaster are brave for many reasons, but most of all because they ...

The mother of the three children who drowned in Coney Island on Monday has been charged with murder, the NYPD said. According to police, Erin Merdy, 30, of Brooklyn was charged Wednesday with ...

Coney Island was last open Friday and Saturday. By Wednesday, it seemed to share the fate of old Montana ghost towns whose gold mines had suddenly run dry. It appeared as though ownership had ...

With record-breaking coronavirus-related deaths overwhelming morgues and mortuaries in New York City, the public cemetery on Hart Island is seeing an increase in burials—from 24 a week to 24 a day.