Gunfire at a large, outdoor event in Brooklyn killed one man and injured at least 11 others late Saturday night, police said.
Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted early Sunday that the shooting in east Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood “shattered a peaceful neighborhood event.” Twelve people were shot, including a 38-year-old man who was dead on arrival at a local hospital, a New York City police spokesman said around 3:30 a.m.

The following is via WSVN:
Police are searching for the person or people responsible for scrawling swastikas on two signs in front of a hotel in the heart of South Beach’s Art Deco district.
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YWN regrets to inform you of the passing of Mrs. Maita Rosenblum A”H (husband of Rav Moshe), the daughter of HaRav Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz Zt”l, Rosh Yeshiva in the Mirrer Yeshiva.
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The following is via WABC:
The New York State education department is considering whether to eliminate Regents exams as a requirement to graduate high school.
The state-wide standardized tests designed to measure achievement in high school-level courses.

A New York Police Department officer was found dead Saturday in a possible suicide on Staten Island, police said. The officer’s death marks the fifth apparent suicide of a member of the NYPD since June, including a respected chief and an experienced detective.
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Motorists will not need to reach into their pockets for money when they cross the Hudson River from New Jersey into New York City.
The Port Authority on Thursday approved installing cashless tolls at the George Washington Bridge and Lincoln and Holland tunnels.

A glimmer of hope has appeared in the seemingly intractable dispute over who will pay for improvements to the century-old rail infrastructure connecting New Jersey to New York and points north and south.
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A Jewish man is in critical condition after his own vehicle fell on top of him, early Friday morning.
It happened just after 2:00AM on the NY State Thruway, when the young man was travelling with his wife and children from Montreal to New York.

Police arrested three men in connection with separate incidents of videotaped dousings of New York City patrol officers with buckets of water, but all three have already been released.