Donald Trump’s D.C. takeover is the usual Trumpian blend of idiocy and cruelty — all optics, unless you are brown-skinned.

Nearly 1,100 new recruits were sworn in at the Police Academy in Queens on Wednesday, which NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said was the largest class the department has seen “in nearly a decade.” ...

New York State Police have charged a Clinton woman with the alleged abandonment of a dog outside the Humane Society of Rome.

The man accused of raping a 15-year-old girl in the Bronx has been arrested after days of searching for him, police said.