NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Authorities say a dozen workers at a warehouse at an upstate New York airport have been charged with using forged immigration d...
nydailynews.com | By Jose Martinez | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York
Petrous Maldovin, the chef at the Russian Tea Room, is a nipple-pinching, crotch-grabbing, foul-mouthed bully, three kitchen workers claim in a $15 mi...
nytimes.com | SEWELL CHAN | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York
Using hydraulic pumps, the Department of Environmental Protection removed more than 625,000 gallons of stagnant water from a mile-long stretch of long...
David A. Love | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York
If you can judge a society by the way it treats its children, then New York fails in a big way. In fact, the Empire State should be found guilty of child abuse and neglect.
nytimes.com | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York
Last month, nearly 355,000 people in the city received welfare payments, a 4 percent increase over the year before, according to city officials, who p...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York
WASHINGTON — The chief judge of the federal court in Washington told lawyers Thursday that domestic street gangs are more deadly than some Guant...
AP | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York
MEXICO, N.Y. — Jacob Hadcock has leukemia, but his parents say the 4-year-old New York boy isn't dying. An e-mail erroneously claims that Jacob...
AP | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A lawyer has asked a federal appeals court to let families of victims of the World Trade Center attacks remove ashes of their loved o...
Gothamist | edEx | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York
After freaking out street vendors and the bloggers who love them yesterday, the Health Department has emailed us to say it was all a big misunderstand...
nydailynews.com | By Frank Lombardi and David Saltonstall | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York
A rare confluence of waning political power and agendas that in the end kept a $324 million proposal for a Kingsbridge Armory mall proposal from getti...
AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — The board of the nation's largest transit agency reluctantly approved a 2010 budget Wednesday that would cut bus and subway service a...
nypost.com | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York
An officer conducting an inspection at a Bronx narcotics unit last week found a soft-core porn movie playing on one of the TVs in the facility, police...
Nancy Duff Campbell | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics
One million workers will become ineligible for unemployment benefits in January unless Congress reauthorizes the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act insurance and health insurance programs by the end of this month.
Posted 12.16.2009 | Impact
New York clubbers showed their generous side at Make a Difference NYC's yearly gift-giving holiday party on Sunday, CNN reports. Make a Difference F...
AP | PAT EATON-ROBB | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York
HARTFORD, Conn. — A man accused of stabbing a University of Connecticut football player to death in October has pleaded not guilty to murder. D...
ny.eater.com | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York
Next year Shake Shack will open locations in Kuwait, the Upper East Side, and Midtown Manhattan....
nydailynews.com | By Kate Nocera, Mike Mclaughlin and Samuel Goldsmith | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York
Some 63% of residents in Kingsbridge Heights and Mosholu report that roaches, rats and mice run rampant in their homes on a daily basis, according to ...
AP | BEN DOBBIN | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A nursing supervisor enraged at two co-workers who accused him of sexual harassment drew a life sentence Wednesday for killing...
nypost.com | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York
Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Paterson both still want to charge drivers to go into Manhattan -- and they each said yesterday those fees would have saved t...
AP | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is forming a squad to assist prosecutors in the upcoming New York trials of Sept. 11 suspects. F...
Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York
I'm always impressed by how elegant and beautiful Ina Garten's tablescapes look on her show (and in person). As quarter-life cooks, we don't usually think about the table first.
Jerri Chou | Posted 12.16.2009 | Impact
I'm testifying at New York City Council today on tech entrepreneurship and how the city can better support this community. Here are some of my thoughts going into the hearing.
silive.com | Associated Press | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York
Organizers of a proposed charter school named after the president have rescinded the honor after the Obama Administration informed them of a long-stan...
AP | Posted 12.15.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — New York City wants to "keep people excited" about safe sex, and is sponsoring a contest for the design of the wrapper for the city's nex...
Evelyn Leopold | Posted 12.15.2009 | New York
The bustling corridors of the UN are quiet. There are no lines in the cafeteria as the campus is being steadily dismantled in the 39-floor high-rise glass tower on New York's East River.
AP | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York