New York City

Heroin Handout Funded By New York City, Called How-To For Heroin Users

AP | Posted 01.04.2010 | New York


NEW YORK — A New York City-funded guidebook for heroin users offers information on how to prepare drugs carefully and care for veins to avoid in...

Things to do this week in NYC Jan 2-Jan 9: Museums

City Guide. | City Guide | Posted 01.02.2010 | Home


Some of the world's most impressive museums and exhibits are in New York?including the Whitney, the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and...

Best Theatre of 2009

Ryan J. Davis | Posted 01.01.2010 | New York


Ryan J. Davis

In 2000, my first year living in New York City, I attended over 200 different theater productions. This year, I clocked in barely a hundred. Here are my top five.

Bloomberg Inauguration To Emphasize Volunteerism

AP | SARA KUGLER | Posted 01.01.2010 | New York


NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is striking a humble tone on the first day of his third term. Bloomberg said Friday he underst...

Monserrate Likely To Face Expulsion From Senate

nydailynews.com | By Glenn Blain | Posted 01.01.2010 | New York


A special Senate committee is likely to recommend lawmakers consider ousting state Sen. Hiram Monserrate for beating up his girlfriend, the Daily News...

DiNapoli To Audit Cuomo's Office

AP | Posted 12.31.2009 | New York


ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli plans to audit the branch of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office that acts as collection ...

American Airlines Flight 120 From New York To Paris Diverted

AP | Posted 01.01.2010 | New York


BANGOR, Maine — Officials say a New York-to-Paris flight carrying 180 passengers was diverted to Maine's Bangor International Airport when pilot...

Mark Barber, Jail Guard, Extorted Sex From Female Inmates: Police

nypost.com | Posted 12.31.2009 | New York


Correction Officer Mark Barber, 47, of Levittown, was charged with 58 crimes -- including rape and sexual abuse. The "female grievance officer" at a L...

How To Survive New Year's Eve

ny.eater.com | Posted 12.31.2009 | New York


Tens of thousands of out of towners will soon be invading the streets of Manhattan to drunkenly disrupt traffic, blow cheap horns while wearing glitte...

Robach Calls For Splitting New York State

nytimes.com | SEWELL CHAN | Posted 12.31.2009 | New York


State Senator Joseph E. Robach, a Republican who represents part of Rochester, has proposed legislation that would allow each of New York State's 62 c...

Charlotte Bloomberg, Mayor's 101-Year-Old Mother, Won't Be At Inauguration

nydailynews.com | By Kathleen Lucadamo | Posted 12.31.2009 | New York


Charlotte Bloomberg, the Bloomberg matriarch who turns 101 Saturday, isn't expected to attend her son, Michael Bloomberg's third inauguration as mayor...

New York State General Fund In Red For First Time Ever

nytimes.com | NICHOLAS CONFESSORE | Posted 12.31.2009 | New York


After months of plunging revenues and weeks of budget battles, New York had a negative balance of $174 million in its general fund on Wednesday, with ...

Diddy, CIROC To Pay For Thousands Of Cabs On New Year's Eve

Posted 12.30.2009 | New York


Hip hop impresario, marathon runner, and entrepreneur Diddy wants you to be safe this New Year's Eve. In fact, so much so that he's gonna pay to help...

Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan DA, Retires After 35 Years

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 12.30.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — Robert Morgenthau has been cast in many roles during his decades in office. The inspiration for the district attorney on TV's "Law &...

Kevin Benefield Arrested In Barbara Pelkey's 1986 Murder

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 12.30.2009 | New York


NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A DNA test led to the arrest of a New York man in a 1986 killing, months after an innocent man who spent 20 years in prison f...

Upper West Side Water Main Break Floods Subway Station, Affects Hundreds

ny1.com | Posted 12.30.2009 | New York


A 12-inch, 120-year-old water main broke around midnight between 105th and 106th Streets and Central Park West, quickly flooding into the subways. The...

Secrets Of A New York Doorman

BrickUnderground | Posted 12.30.2009 | New York


In my building, and most others I've heard about, there are two ways to get above-and-beyond service from the doorman and other staff: Tip well, or ge...

Nurul Alam, Bangladeshi Fruit Vendor, Becomes Cause Celebre

nytimes.com | SUSAN DOMINUS | Posted 12.30.2009 | New York


As is often the case with immigrants trying to build full lives while hoping no one will notice, Mr. Alam has no voice in this story. Largely unknown ...

Bloomberg Gives Over $1 Million In Campaign Bonuses

nydailynews.com | By Elizabeth Benjamin and Adam Lisberg | Posted 12.30.2009 | New York


Mayor Bloomberg's campaign staff found a little something extra in their Christmas stockings last week - more than $1 million in bonuses for a job wel...

Morris Lasker Dead: Ivan Boesky Judge Dies At 92

AP | Posted 12.29.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — Morris Lasker, the judge who sentenced Ivan Boesky to prison in a 1980s insider trading scandal and helped eliminate horrid condition...

Doreen Baker, Rikers Island Guard, Had Improper Relationship With Inmate "Hunter"

nydailynews.com | By Adam Lisberg | Posted 12.29.2009 | New York


Rikers Island Correction Officer Doreen Baker, 39, had an improper relationship with a 39-year-old inmate identified only as "Hunter" when she supervi...

Night Bus Service To Be Cut By City

nytimes.com | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 12.29.2009 | New York


The bus service cuts are part of a ratcheting back of service across the five boroughs that was approved this month by the Metropolitan Transportation...

New York City Unemployment, Neighborhood By Neighborhood

nytimes.com | PATRICK MCGEEHAN | Posted 12.29.2009 | New York


The unemployment rate for all of New York City has risen above 10 percent in recent months, but broken down neighborhood by neighborhood, joblessness ...

Kaitlin Booth, 12-Year-Old Victim, Killed By Underage Driver

nydailynews.com | Barry Paddock, Sarah Armaghan and Corky Siemaszko | Posted 12.29.2009 | New York


Kaitlin Booth, a 12-year-old Bronx girl, was killed early Tuesday in a wreck investigators think was caused by an underage driver who took an SUV out ...

Rep. Gregory Meeks Took 6 Free Trips Thanks To Alleged Ponzi Schemer Allen Stanford

on the tab of con artist | By Greg B. Smith | Posted 12.29.2009 | New York


Queens Democrat, Rep. Gregory Meeks, sometimes accompanied by his wife, Simone-Marie, took six trips to sun-drenched locales from Antigua to St. Lucia...