In selecting Cathleen P. Black as schools chancellor, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was, in many ways, playing to type: a man famous for ignoring advice, relying on his own instincts and doing the opposite of what an ordinary politician would do had chosen as leader of the nation’s largest school system a woman with no relevant experience whom he knew socially.
Two Drunk off-duty New York City police officers have crashed their vehicles on each of the past two nights.
The city’s Department of Environmental Protection commissioner will propose a 7.5 % increase in the water rate Thursday, which will continue more than 15 years of rising rates if it’s approved.
NEW YORK [NBC] — An e-mail sent to certain members of the media and New York state officials threatened violence against state office buildings, the state legislature and school buses.
A Brooklyn City Councilman is going after the hated neon shame stickers slapped on cars parked on the wrong side of the street.
In the final New Yorks State budget agreement, $25 million of title xx funds for Senior centers Fully restored, averting what could have forced the closure of senior centers statewide.
The streets were buried in snow, and these guys really cleaned up. Department of Sanitation workers shoveled in the OT in the week after the Christmas blizzard, some earning more than $5,000 in extra pay, according to city records obtained by The Post.
Don’t count out Brooklyn! Borough leaders were slamming the US Census Bureau on Thursday after the agency claimed that Brooklyn grew by only 40,000 people over the past decade.
Now you can fight a parking ticket from your laptop. A new function on the city website lets you dispute parking violations – and health and sanitation tickets – by submitting pictures and paperwork online in your defense.
MTA board members want straphangers to clean up their act – one of them calling a ban on food and drinks on subways “a swell idea.”
The number of black murder victims surged at an alarming rate last year – a key reason for a citywide spike in homicides, police officials said.
NEW YORK [AP] — There’s something about the guy leaning on a post and checking his phone that catches Brandon Stanton’s eye. So he stops, asks if he can take a photo, clicks and continues on his way.
NEW YORK [NBC] — Legislators on Long Island are pushing a new bill that would ban smoking in a car when there is a minor present.
Well-connected New Yorkers have taken the unusual step of suing the city to remove a controversial bicycle lane in a wealthy neighborhood of Brooklyn, the most potent sign yet of opposition to the Bloomberg administration’s marquee campaign to remake the city’s streets.
It’s a heart-breaking bird’s eye view of New York’s worst tragedy. Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 attacks, a shocking and powerful 17-minute video taken by an NYPD helicopter on that fateful day surfaced Monday on the web.
These supermarkets are more like little shops of horror. The city handed out nearly $400,000 in fines to grocery stores around the city last year for a slew of consumer violations, including overcharging, faulty scales and failing to properly mark merchandise.
The city cannot be held financially responsible for a traffic cop who waved a bus through a red light and into a pedestrian, an appeals court ruled yesterday.
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