Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery is set to become the first on the East Coast to offer human composting.

The historic cemetery is running out of space for new graves, and plans to offer a more sustainable alternative to cremation ...

Syracuse, New York — Police officers in Syracuse, New York, were surprised in December to find a 55-year-old woman living among the dead at Oakwood Cemetery. The story of how Rhea Holmes came to live ...

In what could be a first for our area, Green-Wood Cemetery is Brooklyn is planning to offer so-called "human composting." ...

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 ...

Along Britton Road in Rochester, New York, a brick gatehouse sits across from ordinary homes. Beyond it lies Britton Road Cemetery, its grounds divided into family plots and sections claimed over time ...

Everet Goldberg was found dead on the roof of his apartment building on Avenue H near New York Ave. in Flatbush about 9:55 ...

Federal prosecutors and the F.B.I. are scrutinizing Mr. Carone, who served as chief of staff during Eric Adams’s first year as mayor of New York. By William K. Rashbaum Michael Rothfeld Sally ...

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 ...

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 ...

F.B.I. agents searched a Fulton County, Ga., election center for ballots from 2020, escalating an investigation of a heavily Democratic jurisdiction the president has criticized over his defeat. By ...