Dan Bowens
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NYPD pilots protect city, inspire youth
We are honoring Black History Month and highlighting the remarkable achievements of people in the tri-state area, and it's possible none fly higher than a few pilots from the NYPD Aviation Unit. FOX 5 NY's Dan Bowens went on patrol recently with some pilots. → Read More
NYC cabbie now a viral streetballer
A former cab driver and bridge painter is now making a name for himself as a viral streetballer in New York City. → Read More
Answering the important holiday etiquette questions
Should I go to the office Christmas party? Do I need to buy my co-worker a gift? Here are a few tips on what to do. → Read More
Here's how much more you’re paying for breakfast
Breaking the bank for breakfast. How much more are you paying? → Read More
Bio-hacking humans: People implanting chips in hands and heads
The line between man and machine is blurring as people implant microprocessors in their bodies. → Read More
NJ bike ride raises money for Alzheimer's Association
A 10-mile bike ride in New Jersey helps raise money to develop treatments for Alzheimer's disease. → Read More
Sister of 9/11 victim helps raise $1.5M for Tunnel to Towers Foundation
Kathy Cunningham and Team Shamrock have raised more than $1.5 million for the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. → Read More
Senators call for extradition of U.S. fugitives from Cuba
Joanne Chesimard and William Morales have been fugitives from justice in separate terrorism cases from the 1970s. Two U.S. senators—a Democrat and a Republican—want Cuba, where the fugitives are hiding out, to stop protecting them so they can finally face justice. → Read More
The story behind Jewish gangsters who fought Nazis across the U.S.
It was just before World War II in the late 1930s and gangsters in New York City were as well-known as ball players and politicians. But many people today may not know about the role one infamous Jewish mobster played in fighting fascism in the five boroughs. → Read More
Homeschooling popularity remains as pandemic eases
It's graduation season and this year, more and more kids will receive their diplomas from their parents. → Read More
RoboBurger: Vending machine turns out cooked burgers
RoboBurger is now set up inside the Newport Centre Mall in Jersey City. So how does it taste? → Read More
NYC barbershop offers 'pay what you can' option
A New York City barbershop is offering clients to pay what they can afford for haircuts. → Read More
Dan Bowens gets tattoo at famed Inked NYC, shop raising funds for Ukraine
The image will last a lifetime and the meaning runs deep. My bicep was a canvas recently inside Inked NYC. → Read More
Sonny: Last of the Old Time Mafia Bosses
His name was John "Sonny" Franzese, an underboss with the Colombo crime family on and off for decades. → Read More
The small-time mob figure who may have helped put John Gotti in jail
A small-time mob member may have triggered a chain of events leading to the conviction of John Gotti. → Read More
Robert Durst and Kathy McCormack Durst disappearance
Kathy McCormack Durst disappeared in January of 1982. → Read More
A 179-year-old murder, Edgar Allen Poe and the birth of True Crime
On July 28, 1841, Mary Rogers was found floating in the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey. Her violent murder became a national sensation, and led Edgar Allen Poe to write a story about it that helped lead to the invention of the genre we now know as 'True Crime.' → Read More
Ralph McDaniels of Video Music Box
Ralph McDaniels was the founder and host of Video Music Box, the longest-running music video show in the world. → Read More
NJ students learn about Indigenous Peoples' Day
The Learning Community Charter School in Jersey City usually has Columbus Day off. But this year, all kids in pre-kindergarten through 8th grade learned not about the mythology of Christopher Columbus but the reality of Lenape tribes living in the New York-New Jersey area centuries ago. → Read More
Smoke from western wildfires making for dangerous health conditions in NYC region
On a drive from Queens to Manhattan this week the city skyline was visibly choked out by wild fire smoke. → Read More