Morris Heights

A retired, FDNY deputy chief spoke through tears--and some laughter--as his year-long quest to get his late, firefighter son department recognition came to a close Tuesday. A plaque honoring Lieutenant Joseph P. DiBernardo, Jr. -- who was 40 when he died...

The NYPD released dramatic surveillance footage Thursday showing a wounded, off-duty police officer—clutching his bloody chest—chasing the robbers who had just shot him…and killing one of them with a gunshot to the head. 27-year old...

It's the one place you should be able to feel safe, in your own home, but a recent violent home invasion is rocking the feeling of security in a relatively new apartment building in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx. Cops say it was 2 p.m. Sunday,...

Police are trying to solve a double shooting, that left one man dead, the other in the hospital. Authorities say cops responded to a 911 call which took them to the corner of Cedar and Sedgwick avenues in Morris Heights. When they got there, they found...

Gang members used an anti-gay slur to ask two teen boys and a 30-year-old man about their sexuality before brutally torturing and beating them last week in a working-class Bronx neighborhood, authorities said in court, where eight suspects stood with...

by Clement Tan The director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs today exhorted Latino Americans to participate fully in the 2010 Census data collection, as Census forms begin to trickle into American homes this week. At an event......