A vigil is planned Thursday for the woman set on fire on a Brooklyn subway last weekend, a public memorial for the still nameless victim in a case that rocked the nation for its cruelty. Community leaders planned to hold a late-afternoon prayer vigil at the Stillwell Avenue station in Coney Island,

Authorities are revealing more details surrounding the killing of a woman who was set on fire while sleeping on the New York City subway​.

The man accused of killing a New York City subway rider by setting her on fire has no memory of "what happened" and admitted to heavy drinking, authorities said Tuesday.

A taxi driver hit six pedestrians after jumping a curb in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, sending three people to the hospital for injuries, a spokesperson for the New York Police Department confirmed to The Hill.

Three pedestrians, including a 9-year-old boy, were transported to the hospital after a taxi cab jumped the curb and struck several people on the sidewalk.

Bystanders pulled a 9-year-old boy and his mother from under a taxi near Macy's in New York City on Christmas Day after the vehicle jumped a curb and hit numerous civilians, police said.

New Yorkers can bring their Christmas trees to locations in all five boroughs where the New York City Parks Department will turn them into wood chips for free. Christmas tree recy

With the expansion of NYC's curbside composting program, New Yorkers no longer have to wait for specific days to dispose their Christmas tree.

One inch of snow was measured in Central Park at 7 a.m., and the National Weather Service announced an official white Christmas.

The National Weather Service says snow depth in Central Park was 1 inch at 7 a.m. Christmas morning. That's the minimum amount of snow needed to make it officially a White Christmas.

Around 20 million people were under winter weather alerts across parts of the mid-Atlantic and New England, including Philadelphia and Burlington, Vermont.