The National Trust for Historic Preservation on Thursday placed the industrial waterfront of Brooklyn on its list of 11 most endangered historic places.
The commuter who became an instant hero when he saved a fallen teenager from being struck by a subway train is being sued by his former lawyer, who accuses him of breach of contract.
The Bush administration is trying to evade responsibility for problems at the Guantanamo Bay prison by falsely blaming defense lawyers for the trouble, the New York City Bar says. The group's president leveled the criticism in asking Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to abandon a Justice Department proposal to limit lawyers' access to detainees.
Driving into the most congested half of Manhattan could become an expensive privilege under a wide-ranging city program unveiled Sunday to cope with the booming population and ease stress on the environment.
One million new trees will join the urban landscape of New York City by the year 2017 to reduce air pollution, cool temperatures and help improve the city's long term sustainability, officials said Saturday.
An unidentified person - supposedly male - has jumped from the Empire State Building's 69th floor, landing on the 30th floor and on the ground outside the structure.
A health department worker who gave a passing grade to a fast-food restaurant crawling with rats resigned before she could be fired as the health commissioner acknowledged systemic flaws in the city's inspection system.
From the article: "Performing Monday night at Fat Baby bar on the Lower East Side, the four members of Hypernova almost made it through their set before distinguishing themselves from the many other hip and hungry young talents who come to New York seeking musical recognition. 'We have no idea how good or bad we are - we've just been playing in Iran,' blurted out Raam, the group's 25-year-old songwriter and frontman, to howls of encouragement from an audience of about 30 people stacked with Iranian-American friends and supporters."
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For at least a year before the 2004 Republican National Convention, teams of undercover New York City police officers traveled to cities across the country, Canada and Europe to conduct covert observations of people who planned to protest at the convention, according to police records and interviews.
A gunman wearing a fake beard shot a waiter 15 times at a pizzeria Wednesday night and then killed two unarmed volunteer police officers during a chase, according to New York City police.
For a moment, the man in the grainy video looks like a good Samaritan holding the door open for an elderly neighbor. Then he turns and delivers three sharp punches to the 101-year-old woman's head.
NEW YORK - Fire broke out in a doctor's seventh-floor office at Mount Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday, injuring six people and forcing the staff to move more than a dozen patients, officials said.
Beavers grace New York City's official seal. But the industrious rodents have not been seen in the flesh here for as many as 200 years - until this week. Biologists videotaped a beaver swimming up the Bronx River on Wednesday.
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February is a tough time to live in New York - unless it's around Valentine's Day, and then you start thinking about the great film romances set in the city. The mushy movie montage everyone has in their heads includes personal favorites as well as classic images. But to compile the Daily News' 100 most romantic New York movies, we were looking
Lawmakers To Urge Bush, Congress To Fund Treatment For Sick First Responders. "I feel like a broken man," said former rescue worker Marvin Bethea, who suffers from a range of breathing problems. "We have been given a slow, slow death sentence."
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