An NYPD officer was shot and injured Tuesday morning during a standoff with a man who barricaded himself for hours inside his Lower East Side apartment, officials said.

Activists with East River Park Action chained themselves to a tree outside New York's City Hall to protest the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project, Oct. 8, 2021.

The Lower East Side is lit, as the kids say. One of the coolest and edgiest neighbourhoods in Manhattan, it’s a bustling jumble of nightlife, boutiques, restaurants, bars and century-old ...