After being harshly criticized for bungling this year's community education council elections, the city has announced a do-over.

Hundreds of supporters of the controversial living wage legislation rallied at City Hall prior to the first official hearing where council members challenged the Bloomberg Administration's assertion that the legislation would kill jobs.

The city Department of Transportation is also installing electronic signs next to roads where drivers are known to speed. The boards will show drivers how fast they're going and warn those who break the speed limit by flashing the image of a skeleton.

For the first time in about a year and a half, the medical examiner's office has positively identified one of the human remains from the September 11, 2001, attacks.

Prosecutors are calling rebuttal witnesses to try to discredit claims made by an NYPD officer charged with raping a woman he was summoned to help.

Two Queens men who allegedly planned a terror plot against a Manhattan synagogue and the Empire State Building were "lone wolves" with no known connection to al-Qaeda, authorities said Thursday. SEE PHOTO OF ARREST

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A New York City police officer accused of raping a woman in her East Village apartment testified Wednesday that he never told anyone about the sexual advances she allegedly made toward him because he wanted to be respectful.

Taxi drivers who refuse to take fares to the outer boroughs may soon find themselves paying hefty fines or even having their license revoked.

As authorities continue the probe into the sets of remains found on a desolate Long Island beach highway in a case believed to involve more than two killers, one investigator has proved invaluable to the search: an 8-year-old German Shepherd named Blue.

A new $65.5 million homeless intake center has opened on 151st Street in the Bronx on the site of the infamous Emergency Assistance Unit, which was known for its inhumane conditions and was torn down in 2006.

When hedge fund boss Raj Rajaratnam was arrested in October 2009 on charges of insider trading, his name was unfamiliar to most. But now the Galleon group founder has the dubious and historic distinction of being convicted in the biggest insider trading case involving hedge funds in U.S. history.

A longtime clubhouse manager for the New York Mets allegedly stole baseballs, hats, bats and uniforms with plans to one day sell the memorabilia, a Queens prosecutor said.

Following in the footsteps of fellow Bronx Zoo resident the Egyptian Cobra, a peahen escaped from the Bronx Zoo Monday. But unlike her slithery pal, she didn't get out for long.

Former billionaire hedge fund boss Raj Rajaratnam has been convicted of 14 federal charges alleging he profited from insider trades. A Manhattan jury reached a verdict Wednesday in what federal authorities called the biggest insider trading case involving a hedge fund. They had been deliberating since April 25.

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New York is a city of specialists from foodies to academics, laborers to shopkeepers. Every Wednesday, Niche Market will take a peek inside a different specialty store and showcase the city's purists who have made an art out of selling one commodity.

The city has extradited two former taxi drivers accused of intentionally overcharging passengers by illegally setting their meters to an out of town rate.

On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced it had elected real estate developer Daniel Brodsky to be the new chairman of the Met's 40-member board.