Melasia Harris, 25, told The Post she was at the Brooklyn beach to meet a pal who never showed up — so she stayed to celebrate the holiday with a group of strangers into the early morning.

Amid declining crime rates reported across the state, the Fourth of July weekend this year was marked with fatal fireworks ...

NYPD Chief of Department John Chell joins PIX11 Morning News to discuss safety, crime statistics from the Fourth of July holiday and the recent attempted abduction of a 6-year-old on Coney Island.

Many of the 100,000 people who held city-issued Brooklyn Bridge Park viewing tickets called the event a "total fiasco." ...