The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's 2011 preliminary budget calls for 200 job cuts and investing $3.9 billion on capital projects including the World Trade Center.
The program launching Wednesday — the first of its kind in the U.S., according to organizers and other experts — could eventually lead to thousands more organs donated each year nationwide.
A minor earthquake was reported off of eastern Long Island. Police say there are no reports of injuries or damage.
NEW YORK — It can be tossed off almost harmlessly like "damn" or dropped like an F-bomb.On the streets of New York's diverse Spanish-speaking neighborhoods, it can be heard ...
NEW YORK — It can be tossed off almost harmlessly like "damn" or dropped like an F-bomb.
On the streets of New York's diverse Spanish-speaking neighborhoods, it can be heard ...
Rep. Charles Rangel is ready to make a last stand to salvage his reputation and tell the House that a censure should be reserved for crooked politicians.
Relatives of both Bernard Madoff and his wife are among those being targeted in 40 lawsuits announced Friday by the trustee endeavoring to recover money for victims fleeced by the disgraced ...
A high-kicking Kung Fu Panda and a diary-toting Wimpy Kid joined the giant balloon lineup as the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade unfolded Thursday, drawing tens of thousands of ...
A federal judge overseeing a major legal settlement for thousands of ground zero workers who were exposed to World Trade Center dust said Wednesday that he would give a handful of holdouts one last chance to take the deal.
The governor said his office reached out to Mayor Bloomberg’s office to discuss New York City’s proposal to extend the No. 7 Subway line into New Jersey, but was told the idea is still just a concept.
More than 10,000 people have joined a legal settlement that will pay hundreds of millions of dollars to ground zero workers exposed to toxic World Trade Center dust.
Members of a Florida dance troupe caused a scare when they dashed through the Lincoln Tunnel in their camouflage costumes.
Anyone concerned about the possibility of lead in their shopping bags can rest easy if they use cotton canvas bags rather than the more colorful synthetic type, according to the New York ...
Prosecutors on eastern Long Island say a man has been arrested on charges he took medical waste out of garbage containers in search of painkilling patches to get high.
The House ethics committee's chief counsel recommended Thursday that veteran Rep. Charles Rangel be censured for financial and fundraising misconduct as lawmakers neared closure on an embarrassing 2½-year-long scandal.
A suburban New York fire department had to douse this year's chili cook-off fundraiser when a health inspector discovered more than 30 different home kitchens would be involved.
NEW YORK — A former Soviet military officer dubbed the "Merchant of Death" for allegedly selling an arsenal of weapons that would be "the envy of some small countries" was in the U.S. on ...
NEW YORK — The first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial was acquitted Wednesday of all but one of the hundreds of charges he helped unleash death and destruction on two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 — an opening salvo in al-Qaida's campaign to ...
The estimated $5 billion to $6 billion plan would be about half the cost of a proposal to build a second commuter rail tunnel under the river that was killed last month by Chris Christie, ...
Seven new floats and two new balloons will make their debut at this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
NEW YORK — The competition to manufacture the city's next official taxicab has been narrowed to three automakers who each came up with similar tall, boxy designs that are more like minivans ...
Backers of a bill to provide as much as $7.4 billion in aid to people sickened by World Trade Center dust are making a last-minute push in the Senate.
The maker of a caffeinated alcoholic drink that has been banned in four states has agreed to stop shipments to New York state.
NEW YORK — Luis Guerra swore he had nothing to do with any murder, that whoever picked him out of a lineup was wrong. Still, he was held at the Rikers Island jail for more than a year before the charges were dropped.It didn't end there. Federal immigration officials ...
NEW YORK — Luis Guerra swore he had nothing to do with any murder, that whoever picked him out of a lineup was wrong. Still, he was held at the Rikers Island jail for more than a year before the charges were dropped.
It didn't end there. Federal immigration officials ...
A 74-foot Norway spruce was hoisted into place on Friday on a midtown Manhattan plaza, next to a skating rink.
Opponents of the multibillion-dollar Atlantic Yards project — part of which includes the Nets’ new arena planned for a 2012 opening — won a rare court victory Tuesday, when a state Supreme Court justice agreed to accept further arguments in a long-running court case.
Thousands of 9/11 rescue and recovery workers who sued New York City over their exposure to toxic dust are waiting to learn whether a big settlement struck in the case is going to stick.
The 27-year-old daughter of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has suffered a concussion and fractured spine after taking a tumble from her horse during an upstate equestrian sporting tournament.
Thousands of laborers, police officers and firefighters suing New York City over their exposure to toxic World Trade Center dust have until Monday to decide whether to join a legal settlement ...
A Chilean miner ran, walked and hobbled his way to the finish line of the New York City Marathon on Sunday, showing the passionate grit that helped him survive more than two months trapped ...
Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo is asking the federal government to redirect $1.2 billion to New York for high-speed rail projects.
Police identified the truck driver killed on the George Washington Bridge Thursday as 25-year-old Elvin Velez of Queens.
NEW YORK — A drug-craving drifter took advantage of a drunken college student to steal from and strangle him while watching a horror film, a prosecutor said as the man's murder trial opened Thursday.Jeromie Cancel's defense lawyer told jurors Thursday that they might ...
NEW YORK — A drug-craving drifter took advantage of a drunken college student to steal from and strangle him while watching a horror film, a prosecutor said as the man's murder trial opened Thursday.
Jeromie Cancel's defense lawyer told jurors Thursday that they might ...