Data shows New York City health department restaurant inspections were down this past fiscal year compared to the year before.

We've all seen the letter grades posted in restaurant windows, but we've learned those city health inspections aren't happening as often as they used to. CBS News New York's Dave Carlin looked into the reasons why.

The city’s health department conducted fewer restaurant and rodent inspections due to staffing shortages last fiscal year, affecting its ability to reduce the threat of foodborne illness and animal-related risks to human health,

A teenager is facing murder charges in the deadly shooting of a woman who was defending her family last week in Chinatown.

Concerns are growing over guns in New York City schools, after four firearms were found throughout schools in the five boroughs just this week.The latest discovery was made in a school inside the Percy Sutton Educational Complex in Harlem on Friday morning,

Varma — who served as senior health advisor to then-Mayor Bill de Blasio during the height of the pandemic, talked about hosting orgies with his wife and attending underground dance parties with more than 200 people.