A Brooklyn high school football player was fatally shot by a teammate while they were passing around a gun for fun, officials said.

He had his whole life in front of him,” said the mother of 16-year-old victim Ka’mardre Coleman. “And now I have got to bury my baby.” ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Stanley Richards as the new commissioner of the city’s Department of Correction on Saturday. Richards will become the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city ...