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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The NYPD hopes newly released surveillance video will help track down two people wanted for questioning in a deadly attack earlier this month in Brooklyn. Dimitry Goldfarb, 52, died after apparently being punched in the head and falling to the ground. Shirtless suspect seen after deadly attack on Brooklyn man. (Credit:…

The sun shines through Manhattan buildings (Shutterstock) Depending on who you ask at Gothamist, summer either sucks, or is the most delightful time of the year. What's not up for debate, though, is that right now this city feels hotter than, say, a wide-open field upstate. But why does New York, especially Manhattan, heat up…

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A heat emergency takes effect today in New York City ahead of an extremely hot and humid weekend. Authorities urge everyone to stay cool and safe as record-breaking temperatures grip the area. Web Extra: CBS2’s Summer Heat Survival Guide Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a heat emergency from 9 a.m. Friday to 11:59 p.m.…

A pedestrian was run over at Mason and Eddy early Thursday morning by the driver of a big-rig truck, and dragged to Market and 5th. KPIX is reporting the victim, who later died, was Michael Stevens, 54. From a statement from Walk San Francisco: We are heartbroken to learn of a crash this morning that killed a pedestrian. The details we know…

Rain from Hurricane Barry hit the city on Wednesday night (and this morning!), but we're also in the middle of a heat wave and while there weren't power outages on the scale of the West Side Blackout, thousands of New Yorkers across the Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island, and Queens were hit with smaller blackouts. Nearly 4,000…