The green option, also called “natural organic reduction,” transforms a body into nutrient-dense soil in just a few weeks.

Detectives investigating the Feb. 1 death of Michelle Montgomery at a public housing complex in Brooklyn, New York, are ...

Strangers still visit the Rochester tombstone, lighting candles and whispering prayers, nearly a century after his passing.

Arthur Tress’s new book, “The Ramble, NYC 1969,” provides a view into a world otherwise all but invisible to passersby.

Devante Brown, 30, who worked as a teacher at a childcare center in Bushwick, was arrested Wednesday on charges he subjected two 5-year-old, a 6-year-old and a 9-year-old to sexual abuse several ...

Everyone is dying to try this new burial trend. Eco-conscious New Yorkers can soon turn their corpses into compost as part of ...

Excavators recently unearthed an Anglo-Saxon "princely" grave — containing two men, a horse and grave goods — during the construction of a nuclear power station in England. The discovery was made at ...

Brooklyn and the rest of New York City are bracing for what’s predicted to be the area’s largest winter storm in years, with freezing temperatures and several inches of snow expected on Sunday and ...

Two teenagers were arrested Thursday after dozens of swastikas were painted on a playground in a predominantly Jewish area of Brooklyn, New York, this week, the New York Police Department said. The 15 ...

Today on AD, chief historian Dominique Jean-Louis takes a walking tour to explore how the Brooklyn Bridge evolved from a 19th-century engineering marvel into one of New York City’s most enduring ...

The ornate neoclassical facade of Venezuela's palm tree-lined Miraflores Palace — the seat of power held by Nicolás Maduro for more than a decade — is in stark contrast to where, now deposed, he is ...

The NYPD recovered a large box of department uniforms abandoned near Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn after a 911 call Tuesday night, officials said. The uniforms were found in the 66th Precinct and ...