NEW YORK -- Pattycake, the first gorilla born in New York City, has died at the Bronx Zoo. She was 40 years old and suffering from chronic cardiac pro...

The all-seeing, bigger-than-the-FBI NYPD may have the ability to shoot down planes, but when it comes to catching one particular peacock, New York's f...

Katie Holmes is continuing to enjoy her life as a soon-to-be-single mom in New York. After taking daughter Suri Cruise to the East Village for ice cre...

The angry, "emotionally disturbed" Elmo impostor known to harass innocent New Yorkers in high-trafficked tourist spots is at it again, this time peste...

From peacocks wandering the Upper East Side to hilarious Twitter accounts sparked from a missing Cobra and partying turtles invading JFK, 2011 was qui...

You won't find New York's hottest chicks dining at ABC Kitchen, peddling away at SoulCycle or lined up for an Alexander Wang sample sale. You'll have ...

As New Yorkers braced for Hurricane Irene Saturday, staff at the Central Park Zoo made a surprising discovery--a brand new baby lamb. "We all came...

UPDATE: She's back. EARLIER: A peacock escaped from the Central Park Zoo and was on the loose on the Upper East Side Tuesday afternoon, zoo offi...

NEW YORK -- One of the Central Park Zoo's beloved polar bears has died. Zoo officials say Ida was euthanized Friday after veterinarians determined sh...

The tragic death of a six-month-old baby on Saturday just outside the Central Park Zoo was the result when a major limb of a honey locust tree suddenly fell about thirty-five feet.

NEW YORK (AP / Huffington Post) -- Police say a 6-month-old baby has been killed and her mother injured by a falling tree branch at the Central Park Z...

A man was killed by a falling snow-covered tree branch in Central Park earlier this afternoon. The unidentified man was declared dead on the scene ...

A "mini" goat was born recently at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Central Park Zoo. He was born to one of four Mini-Nubian goats which the zoo bo...

The Central Park Zoo opened its first new exhibit in over 20 years on Thursday, introducing 2 snow leopards to New York City, with a third on its way....