As hot, muggy weather coupled with air pollution blankets eastern New York, state health and environmental officials are urging people with asthma and other respiratory troubles to limit strenuous outdoor activity.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg Tuesday chose the Brownsville Recreation Center here to announce a $5 million pledge to the Summer Youth Employment Program from Walmart.
State environmental officials are trying to nip a huge, dangerous plant in the bud.
Mayor Bloomberg did a flip-flop in the direction of French critics who’ve denounced the NYPD’s “perp walk” of Dominique Strauss-Kahn by calling such public displays “outrageous” and a “circus.”
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is standing by regulations that will force New York City and other municipalities to spend billions of dollars on projects that provide virtually no health benefits, the Bloomberg administration said in a letter to the agency’s chief.
A Prominent Republican is joining a prominent Democrat in predicting that Gov. Cuomo will become President Obama’s running mate for vice president next year.
The 4th of July is a special holiday weekend for all Americans, but perhaps more so for the NYPD bomb squad. That’s because each year they get to blow up all the fireworks the department has confiscated in a grand, fiery spectacle.
With the Los Angeles Dodgers filing for reorganizational bankruptcy, some people, encouraged particularly by the New York Sun, are musing about returning the baseball team to Brooklyn, where it was central to the identity of the working-class borough, smashed racism with the hiring of Jackie Robinson and other great black players, and contributed the best part of the golden age of New York baseball.
A new law to phase out solid, roll-down security gates on storefronts went into effect today.
Ask people what their favorite place is in America, and you will get many and varied answers. For some, the answer will be sites of natural beauty, such as the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone National Park. For others, the answer will be places of historic interest in Washington, D.C., such as the Lincoln Memorial, the White House, and the Washington Monument. For those who live for life’s excitement, the answer will be the dazzling skylines of Manhattan or Chicago.
You will get your most unusual answer from me: My favorite place in the United States of America is Brooklyn, New York, for its present, past, and future!
Flights were temporarily halted at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport on Wednesday morning after about 150 turtles ambled onto a runway.
City police officers who stop and frisk people on the street will soon have to give a better explanation for their actions, according a published report.
State senators may need to name themselves the official state vegetable! In the worst redefinition of the word “vegetable” since the Reagan Administration briefly suggested that ketchup was one, the Senate voted last week to name corn the state vegetable – even though corn is a grain.
You want a wild ride? Come to Brooklyn! Borough motorists are wildly violating the city’s vehicular traffic rules, according to stunning traffic data released by the NYPD this week.
State lawmakers on Friday passed an omnibus bill that extends the city’s rent laws, caps property taxes, and raises tuition at SUNY and CUNY schools.
Toeiva marriage is legal in New York State. Governor Cuomo, a strong proponent of “equality,” stalwartly pursued its passage, making it his signature legislative achievement. Unlike Assemblyman Dov Hikind’s false assumptions that the New York Assembly doesn’t have the votes, it passed the Democratic-led Assembly by a large margin, and the Republican-led Senate didn’t do anything to stop the bill. The bill still faces many hurdles, and we should not yet surrender; however, as the headlines proclaimed, New York now became the beacon of darkness for the entire nation regarding this matter.
Dozens of yellow cabs from New York City lined the streets around the state Capitol on Tuesday as cabbies rallied against legislation to let livery drivers legally pick up passengers who hail them in the city’s four outer boroughs and northern Manhattan.
1
