New York News

NYC The Next Silicon Valley?

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 05.28.2012

NEW YORK — Just as a trench dug in the 1800s created a shortcut to the nation's interior and helped make New York a global trading hub, the city...

Blind Chinese Activist To Speak In NYC

AP | Posted 05.28.2012

NEW YORK — A blind Chinese activist who was the focus of a nearly monthlong diplomatic standoff has a speaking engagement in New York City this ...

A Long Road For Prosecutors In Etan Patz Case

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 05.28.2012

NEW YORK -- For prosecutors, the work is just beginning after the astonishing arrest last week of a man who police say confessed to strangling a 6-yea...

Etan Patz Murder Suspect Knew 'Intimate Details,' Sources Say

Posted 05.27.2012

Pedro Hernandez, the suspect who allegedly admitted to killing Etan Patz more than 30 years ago, knew "intimate details" about the boy that lead polic...

Hernandez's Family Shocked Over Arrest In Etan Patz Case

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.27.2012

NEW YORK -- When police dug up a Manhattan basement last month in a fruitless search for the remains of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who disappeared in...

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PHOTOS: New York City's Other Missing Children

HuffingtonPost.com | Christopher Mathias | Posted 05.25.2012

Etan Patz's disappearance 33 years ago was perhaps most disturbing, and grabbed the most national headlines, because of its narrative. May 25th, 1979 ...

Man Who Confessed To Etan Patz Murder Expected In Court

Posted 05.25.2012

Nearly 33 years after the disappearance of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old Manhattan boy who went missing in 1979, police announced the arrest of a suspect in...

NJ Muslims Angry After NYPD Surveillance Findings

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 05.25.2012

TRENTON, N.J. -- Muslim leaders in New Jersey say they are angry but uncertain what their next step will be after the state's attorney general found t...

Union Square Hit-And-Run Kills Young Woman

Posted 05.24.2012

The NYPD is searching for a dump truck driver implicated in a Thursday morning hit-and-run in Union Square that killed a 21-year-old woman. The un...

OWS Sues NYC Over 3,000 Confiscated Books

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2012

By Joseph Ax NEW YORK, May 24 (Reuters) - Occupy Wall Street filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against New York City, claiming authori...

City Cracks Down On Overpriced Manicures...For Men

Posted 05.23.2012

In post-metrosexual America, plenty of dudes (see: Charles Barkley) are getting manicures, pedicures and waxes. And for years in New York, salons ...

LGBT Sailors Urged To Come Out For Fleet Week

DNAinfo | Posted 05.23.2012

HELL'S KITCHEN — For the first Fleet Week since Don't Ask, Don't Tell was repealed, New York's gay nightlife scene is encouraging men and women in u...

Husband Allegedly Attacks Wife's Head With Meat Cleaver

Posted 05.23.2012

A mentally ill Queens man allegedly hacked his wife with a meat cleaver early Wednesday morning, police sources tell ABC. Liu Huizhen, 52, is in c...

NY Bill Would Eliminate Anonymous Online Comments

Posted 05.23.2012

A new bill in Albany has its sights set on anonymous internet trolls. The Internet Protection Act would require sites to have online commenters identi...

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Councilman Slams Stop And Frisk, Says Bloomberg's 'Ass-Backwards' On Gun Violence

HuffingtonPost.com | Christopher Mathias | Posted 05.24.2012

City Councilman Jumaane Williams thinks Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration is "ass-backwards" in its approach to gun violence, and that the mayo...

WATCH: Bloomberg Breaks Curfew With Helicopter, Upsets Neighbors

Posted 05.24.2012

Billionaire helicopter pilot and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in trouble with neighbors of the East 34th Street Heliport, who say hizzoner...

Cab Fares Could Rise 20 Percent

Posted 05.22.2012

The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission has agreed to hear a proposal on May 31 to raise cab fares 20 percent. According to The Times, "Such h...

Will NJ AG Go After NYPD For Spying On Muslims?

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 05.22.2012

NEWARK, N.J. -- New Jersey Muslim leaders who attended a March meeting with the state's attorney general say they've been invited back this week for a...

WATCH: Cop's Amazingly Vulgar Tirade Caught On Tape

Posted 05.22.2012

A uniformed NYPD officer in Brooklyn was caught on video giving a vulgar, profanity-laced rant worthy of a Tarantino flick. The foul-mouthed fuzz,...

Kelly Says Stop And Frisk Critics Have 'Short Memories And Questionable Motives'

Posted 05.21.2012

New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly lashed out at critics of stop and frisk in a Daily News editorial Monday, defending the program from the claim ...

For Farmers, Fracking Could Mean Salvation-- Or Ruin

AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 05.21.2012

ALBANY, N.Y. -- When Dan Fitzsimmons looks across the Susquehanna River and sees the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells, he thinks bitterly of the riche...

Artist Arrested After 'I Love You NY' Bag Causes Bomb Scare

AP | MEGHAN BARR | Posted 05.22.2012

NEW YORK -- An artist who was setting up an illuminated "I Love New York"-themed public art display in Brooklyn was arrested after the wired contrapti...

The Gaslight Anthem Gets Intimate & Interactive in Brooklyn

Salvatore Bono | Posted 05.18.2012

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With songs played like "The '59 Sound," "Miles Davis & the Cool," "The Backseat," "Bring It On," and their latest single, "45," Gaslight Anthem had the crowd rocking and rolling for the near two hour set.

NYPD Arrests 'The Ghost'

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 05.18.2012

NEW YORK -- A notorious drug dealer who got his start during the crack epidemic of the 1980s and was so good at hiding his whereabouts that he was kno...

City's Unemployment Rate Finally Drops

Posted 05.18.2012

The New York State Department of Labor said the New York City added 27,000 private sector jobs in April, dropping the consistently high unemployment r...