Jack Shapiro, a 54-year-old outdoorsman and retired Brooklyn cop, was winter-surfing off Gilgo Beach with friends around 2:20 p.m. Sunday when he plunged into the surf and had to be pulled to

Tisch said offenses like aggressive panhandling, unlicensed street vending and public urination give “the impression of an unsafe community.”

A former New York City police sergeant died from an apparent drowning while surfing in Long Island’s frigid waters on Sunday.

Kevin Catalina, the Suffolk police department's second-in-command and a veteran of the NYPD, was nominated to be Suffolk's new police commissioner Tuesday, sources said.

A former sergeant for the New York Police Department has died in a suspected drowning on Long Island. Jack Shapiro was surfing at Gilgo Beach on Sunday, January 19th when, just after 2:00 pm local time,

Jack Shapiro, 54, of Holbrook was identified as the victim after being pulled to shore by a bystander off the coast of Gilgo Beach just after 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 19.

A former New York state trooper has been arrested and charged after prosecutors say he shot himself in the leg and then falsely claimed he was wounded by an unknown gunman on a Long Island highway last year.

The NYPD released an age-progressed image of Arkadiy "ARK" Tashman, who disappeared from Staten Island in 2005, to renew public interest and gather information.

NEW YORK — New York City police are searching for a group of people they say took a subway train on a joyride. The department released images and video Wednesday of six individuals who they say commandeered an unoccupied “R” train over the weekend.

NEW YORK -- Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch delivered the annual State of the NYPD address on Thursday, outlining the department's priorities and challenges ahead. The speech was a chance for Tisch to talk about what's working, what's not, and to put forth her vision for 2025.

A woman was killed by a raging fire that ripped through 3 homes on Long Island early Friday morning, police say.