New York has been named America’s rudest city in a survey by Time + Leisure magazine. But the article said The Big Apple was also America’s most diverse city, which could explain some of the unfriendliness.
Street parking could soon get a lot easier for drivers in the city. The Department of Transportation is launching a new program to take the stress out of finding a spot.
New Yorkers can expect bitterly cold temperatures Sunday, as an arctic blast envelops the city with some of the coldest temperatures of the year.
After shopping, running errands or even a long day of work, the only thing worse for a driver than finding their car about to be towed is not finding the vehicle at all.
Brooklyn straphangers whose travels have been thrown into disarray by nighttime shutdowns of a key subway line this week are in for longer-term pain as another line shuts on weekends stretching through next month.
Police are looking for a pair of burglars who posed as utility workers to gain entrance to homes in the Mapleton section of Brooklyn.
The New York Civil Liberties Union has sued the New York Police Department for refusing to release internal audits of a Brooklyn precinct, saying the reports are essential to show whether the department has manipulated its crime statistics to make them appear more favorable.
First, Mayor Bloomberg went after smoking in public places. Then trans-fats, salt and sugary drinks. Now Bloomberg — known for sipping fine wine and downing a cold beer from time to time — wants to crack down on alcohol sales to curb excessive drinking, according to a provocative planning document obtained by The Post.
The Bloomberg administration is working with the state to close a loophole that has allowed city restaurants to duck its strict letter-grading system by registering as supermarkets or wholesalers.
Sleepy New Yorkers beware: Putting your feet up on a subway seat during a late-night train ride can land you behind bars.
New York City’s 911 operators are now able to give callers details about emergency events.
Last year it was livery cabs, and this year it could be fingerprinting for food stamps.
The wind chill will make it feel zero degrees and colder in portions of the tristate region Tuesday.
Crime is poised to climb in New York City for the first time in two decades. The uptick is all but certain, despite 11th-hour scrambling by police to keep their record-smashing crime-fighting streak intact.
Jill Korber walked into a drab police station in Queens in July to report that a passing bicyclist had groped her two days in a row. She left in tears, frustrated, she said, by the response of the first officer she encountered. “He told me it would be a waste of time, because I didn’t know who the guy was or where he worked or anything,” said Ms. Korber, 34, a schoolteacher. “His words to me were, ‘These things happen.’ He said those words.”
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday praised the city’s police and fire departments for making 2011 one of the city’s safest years ever.
A New York City man is very upset after trying to put his trash out for collection and ending up with a ticket. He, and others, are getting snared in an enforcement of a law that few people even know exists.
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