• A former FDNY firefighter who became a drug addict shows how bad the problem is on our streets

    A former FDNY firefighter who became a drug addict shows how bad the problem is on our streets

    David says, 'I'll just take a quick shot, and then we'll go in.' We are sitting outside the Queens Place Mall in Elmhurst, in a dark hallway that wraps around an old, brutalist coliseum. Inside, a mix of mostly middle-class Hispanic and Asian kids just out of school are looking at clothes and shoes, meeting up with friends, and milling around.
  • ‘SNL’ star Colin Jost reveals his mom’s 9/11 nightmare story 

    ‘SNL’ star Colin Jost reveals his mom’s 9/11 nightmare story 

    On the morning of 9/11, “Saturday Night Live” star Colin Jost’s family was doing a lot of live updating — but not the satirical kind. They were worried about Jost’s mother, Dr. Kerry Kelly, who had left a patient’s bedside on Staten Island to race to downtown Manhattan after hearing that a plane had crashed …