Patients seeking care at New York hospitals spend nearly five hours in emergency rooms — among the worst rates in the country.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg today addressed the controversy surrounding his whereabouts during the December blizzard, after the Wall Street Journal published a story today that essentially confirms that he was in Bermuda during the storm.
ALBANY — The number of New Yorkers on food stamps has soared to a record 3 million – an 11% jump from 2009 and a 65% increase in the past five years, the Daily News has learned.
It’s so hard to keep the elevator in your house in good shape these days. Just ask Mayor Bloomberg. Five times in the last 10 years, inspectors have reported the five-story elevator in his upper East Side townhouse was “unsatisfactory.”
The city will continue to furlough workers who fill potholes rather than go full-strength in the war against craters, officials said.
With New York’s alternate-side parking rules finally back in effect, one might think that the city would show some leniency toward the unmoved.
Think again.
Talk about chutzpah! The city yesterday ended its two-week suspension of alternate-side parking rules and slapped drivers with tickets for not moving their cars so plows could clear the snow from curbsides — and then, no plows came through anyway.
New York motorists need to buckle up and hold on tight, because it’s getting bumpy out there. This year’s harsh winter weather is wreaking havoc on the city’s roads, causing thousands of potholes to emerge across the five boroughs.
Misconduct complaints against New York City police decreased by 18% in the first half of 2010 compared with the first six months of the previous year, according to a report released by the Civilian Complaint Review Board on Wednesday.
Just when New Yorkers thought they had seen it all this winter, along came a new cause for alarm on Wednesday: ice, a danger on the ground and from above.
Okay New Yorkers, it’s time to get serious about shoveling the snow off your sidewalk – before it costs you. The Sanitation Department says it has issued more than 2,500 tickets in the last month to owners who left their sidewalks slick and dangerous with ice and snow.
The active winter continues as a high pressure system brings another arctic chill into the Tri-State after a slow snow melt on Sunday morning.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg ignited another firestorm of controversy on Friday over East River tolls.
The city’s snow turned into a slushy danger zone for dry feet and clean clothes Friday, as pedestrians maneuvered through a gauntlet of melting drifts and puddles.
NEW YORK [AP] — Dozens of passengers spent the night huddled in subway cars after the snowstorm that blanketed the northeast stranded their train in Brooklyn’s Coney Island station.
Yet another snowstorm hit the Northeast from Wednesday through early Thursday.
The storm came in two rounds, an initial burst on Wednesday morning and then a heavier round late Wednesday through early Thursday. Unlike previous storms this season, heavy snow also fell in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore in addition to Philadelphia, New York City and southern New England.
A crooked city data entry clerk — who took thousands of dollars cash to “fix” overdue parking tickets, then just pocketed the money without paying anything off — is going to jail for a year.
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