Candidates know about it. Election lawyers know about it. Political insiders do too. Yet, I've learned over the past few years that in this otherwise politically savvy town, ballot access still remains foreign to many.

By Jess Wisloski KINGSBRIDGE -- A 9-year-old girl was struck by a stray bullet on Friday night and police released a photo of a young man wanted i...

NEW YORK -- A New York City emergency dispatcher is being hailed for spending nearly eight hours on the phone with a woman who had suffered a stroke w...

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The latest FBI crime statistics for 2012 give New York City a mixed view, showing that it has the second lowest murder rate among major U.S. cities bu...

A 17-year-old mother's swift action may have saved her baby from being crushed by an out-of-control car, video footage shows. Alondra Gervacio was ...

NEW YORK — Removable floodwalls would be erected in lower Manhattan, and levees, gates and other defenses would be built elsewhere around the ci...

Tens of thousands of members of ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities Sunday flooded lower Manhattan's Foley Square to protest Israeli legislation that th...

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The NYPD recovered a giant stash of stolen Apple products from a Queens apartment Wednesday, The Daily News reports. After stopping a vehicle on 1...

Valet parking comes with the territory in New York City. But it usually involves a vehicle with four wheels and lots of horsepower. Barclays Center...

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NEW YORK — A federal judge must now decide whether the nation's largest police force has been unjustly stopping black and Hispanic men under a p...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Officials in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office say the governor will meet with representatives from the National Transportation Safety...

Efforts to decriminalize marijuana in New York City-- the pot arrest capital of the world-- seem to be paying off. The New York Post parsed data f...

NEW YORK — New Yorkers might have felt they knew about the personal life of Christine Quinn, the veteran politician seeking to become the city's...

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NEW YORK — A Tunisian man accused of radicalizing a Canadian resident charged in a plot to derail a train has been charged with trying to stay i...

One of New York's most wanted fugitives was arrested Monday in a small English town where he'd been working at a grocery store. NBC reports 47-yea...

The number of people questioned under New York City's controversial stop-and-frisk policy dropped by 51 percent in the first quarter of 2013 compared ...

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NEW YORK -- A New York state lawmaker already facing bribery and other corruption charges has been accused of using funds meant for a nonprofit to pay...

It's been a roller-coaster week for Uber, the San Francisco–based order-a-ride app. Earlier this week, a judge removed the last barrier to the compa...