Two buildings hailed by the Landmarks Preservation Commission as "symbols of the city's rapid growth at the beginning of the 20th century" received landmark status on Tuesday, a designation that protects the structures from demolition, and requires a permit for any major changes, according to the commission.

In a visit to New York City, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon got a tour of City Hall with Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday. Calderon praised the mayor's anti-gun program Mayors Against Illegal Guns. He presented the mayor with a silver bowl and was given a silver apple in return.

A New York City police officer charged with raping a woman in her apartment told jurors Tuesday he was only trying to calm the alleged victim down when she secretly recorded him disclosing he had used a condom.

The city will launch a new emergency alert system by the end of the year that sends messages to cell phones during disasters, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday.

After complaints from parents, the city has postponed its elections for community education councils by one more week.

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The U.S. Department of Justice is opening a wide-ranging probe into the Newark Police Department's civil rights track record. The announcement comes several months after the New Jersey chapter of the ACLU petitioned for DOJ intervention after it said it documented more than 400 serious civil rights violations from between 2008 and 2010.

City officials are still scratching their heads to figure out why the 2010 Census only counted 8.175 million residents in New York — about a quarter million people below the city's own estimates — as they prepare a formal challenge in the next two months.

Children's advocates are calling on the City Council to restore $23 million the mayor proposed cutting from after school programs. They claim a cut that large means 16,000 elementary and middle school students will lose access to homework help, arts and sports classes.

Long Island Rail Road commuters should prepare for fewer and more crowded trains during morning and evening rush hours this week.

The city's public rail systems are safe despite two security breaches in the tunnels this weekend — including one incident in which four men infiltrated the Second Avenue subway and a second in which a man entered a PATH train tunnel at the World Trade Center and walked to New Jersey, authorities said Monday.

Humans remains found along a stretch of beach highway in Long Island are the work of at least two killers who used the area as a dumping ground, a Long Island District Attorney said Monday.

Commuters had mixed reactions Monday to a new proposal that calls for the creation a No Ride List for Amtrak to safeguard against terrorists in the wake of reports that al Qaeda planned to target U.S. trains.

An NYPD officer told jurors Monday that he did not have sex with the woman who has accused him of raping her.

The up to $50 million bounty to bring Osama bin Laden to justice should go to first responders, survivors and families of victims of September 11 attacks, two New York City congressman said.

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Long Island Rail Road passengers are experiencing up to 20 minute delays on their morning commute after an empty Amtrak train derailed a day earlier in New York's East River tunnel.

An empty Amtrak train derailed in a tunnel under the East River a day after a PATH train crash injured more than 30 people in New Jersey, tying up the Monday commute for thousands of travelers. Still, the headaches were minimal, with additional buses and most transit agencies honoring one another's tickets.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg set aside between $3 million and $5 million in his budget to fund 10 'innovative senior centers'--including one for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered New Yorkers.