New York City is considering a plan to remove all trash cans from some subway platforms.
Eight current and former NYPD officers and one New Jersey corrections officer have been arrested on charges that they were running a gun-smuggling ring that dealt weapons in New York City.
Give me your tired, your poor — your Internet-connected masses yearning to see.
uthorities say two cars of a subway train derailed in lower Manhattan but no one was injured.
Bullets are flying over Broadway — and everywhere else in the city. The number of people shot surged 154 percent two weeks ago — to 56 from 22 over the same week last year — and spiked 28 percent in the last month.
The NYPD’s clashes with Wall Street protestors haven’t done much to diminish Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s popularity. A Quinnipiac University poll released today found that Kelly would lead the current field of candidates if he decided to run for mayor in 2013, even though the top cop has said repeatedly that he doesn’t have the DNA for elective politics.
He is a 30-year-old college student who gets by on loans and freelance jobs as a legal assistant and public notary. He does not have a bank account. He does not have a credit card. When he says he lives paycheck to paycheck, he means it quite literally: If he runs out of the money he keeps in the (sometimes torn) pocket of his pants, it means he has nothing until his next check comes along.
It’s a tough time to be one of New York’s Finest. With the NYPD facing a blizzard of damning incidents in recent months, cops and police brass say morale among the force is perilously low.
On the morning of October 12, Melissa Franchy boarded the B110 bus in Brooklyn and sat down near the front. For a few minutes she was left in silence, although the other passengers gave her a noticeably wide berth. But as the bus began to fill up, the men told her that she had to get up. Move to the back, they insisted.
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.
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