Police say the military-grade explosives found buried at a historic New York City cemetery are more than 13 years old.
A freak autumn storm turned parts of the city into a winter wonderland on Monday night, pounding some of Brooklyn and Manhattan with hail the size of quarters.
The safety of vaccines is at the heart of a case expected to be heard on Tuesday by the United States Supreme Court, one that could have implications for hundreds of lawsuits that contend there is a link between vaccines and autism.
Several blocks of deadly C-4 explosive were found Monday morning in an East Village cemetery, police sources said.
Semper fake!
For years, Brooklyn commuters have opened their wallets for Robert McMahon, handing cash to this heroic and heartbreaking figure, a Vietnam vet in combat fatigues, his left arm missing and his right leg crippled, as he panhandles on Ocean Parkway in Kensington.
New Yorkers on food stamps would not be allowed to spend them on sugar-sweetened drinks under an obesity-fighting proposal being floated by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. David Paterson.
Some things are almost universally avoided whenever possible: jury duty, dental work, parking tickets.
NEW YORK [AP] — The cost of riding New York City’s subways, buses and commuter rails is going up again, the third fare increase in three years.
The NYPD insists it does not have even unofficial ticket quotas, but of course it does. And it should.
What it should not do is waste cops on issuing summonses for double-parking and parking at bus stops. Let the parking violations agents do that.
It turns out that New York City’s streets actually are paved with gold — its tens of thousands of parking meters could be worth $5 billion or more if privatized.
Murder rising at alarming rate, sending waves of fear throughout NYC’s most dangerous neighborhoods. The number of people shot citywide has gone up 4.5% from a year ago, jumping to 1,374.
City’s epidemic makes its way into classrooms as bedbugs hop a ride on kids via clothing and jackets.
New Yorkers will soon dial up subway rides. Starting next year, you’ll be able to use your smartphone to get past turnstiles as part of the MTA’s plan to kill off the MetroCard, officials said yesterday.
The NYPD acknowledged on Thursday that even though a Boro Park woman made a complaint about a man – who turned out to be the alleged shooter of four Shomrim members a week later – acting indecently in public, officers did not file a report.
Mayor Bloomberg is the rare billionaire who can preach penny-pinching without putting his foot in his mouth.
He’s been wearing the same shoes for 10 years.
A monster storm ripped through the city Thursday evening, killing one person, snapping mighty trees, and flipping tractor-trailers like toys.
A Queens man was slapped with a parking ticket as he lay dead in the driver’s seat of his car, cops and family said Wednesday.
