The Big Apple’s major airports — JFK, La Guardia and Newark — are among the worst in the nation for on-time arrivals.
City workers have removed signs warning women in a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn to step aside for men.
Cryptic messages written in the sky over lower Manhattan – part of a kooky art project – mystified and unnerved New Yorkers Sunday afternoon.
Two deer died and another was rescued and set free after being pulled from the water near the Brooklyn-side of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Wednesday in what experts are calling the first time in 50 years that deer have attempted to colonize the Borough of Kings.
The NYPD is attacking a spike in subway crime with extra weekend patrols by police officers drawn from above-ground precincts and the housing bureau, police said.
The recently announced trial program to introduce cell phones to underground subway stations will be expanded to include all stations throughout the boroughs – including Brooklyn – by 2016, an MTA spokesman said.
A top restaurateur is throwing in the apron, saying he’s done with New York City because a wave of vicious lawsuits, coupled with draconian state regulations, threatens to cripple the industry.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is set to face angry protests during his visit to New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly. United Against Nuclear Iran, an advocacy group, has demanded that managers of the upscale Warwick Hotel refuse to host Ahmadinejad and his delegation and have urged a boycott of the international hotel chain.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is shrugging off a report that the squeegee men have returned to the streets of New York.
As toll hikes took effect Sunday on bridges and tunnels between New York and New Jersey, drivers complained they would look for alternate routes to save money. But there appeared to be little they could do to escape higher costs except stay home.
The ongoing ticket-writing slowdown by fedup NYPD cops has become so costly to the city that a top police commander seems to have resorted to using a dreaded word in policing: quota.
New billboards went up across New York City on Wednesday night with a message that could have subway riders doing a double-take.
With his outcome of his own reelection effort 14 difficult months away, President Obama suffered a sharp rebuke at the polls Tuesday, when voters in New York elected a conservative Republican to represent a Democratic congressional district that has not been in Republican hands since the 1920s.
Some people wept. Some embraced. Others silently stared into the dark pools where the twin towers once stood as the 9/11 memorial at ground zero opened its gates to the public.
A flight that originated out of John F. Kennedy Airport was diverted this morning amid security concerns.
There are radiation detection boats in the waters, cameras that have been placed all over lower and Midtown Manhattan and there are cops with guns and tanks and all kinds of weapons, because in New York a terror attack could come from anywhere, and anyone.
New Yorkers overwhelmingly approve of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s decision to prepare for Hurricane Irene by ordering the evacuation of low-lying areas, according to a poll released Monday.
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