Defense lawyers for two New York City cops charged with rape quizzed the alleged victim about the night she said she was raped on Friday in an attempt to show the jury that her memory of the evening was unreliable. The woman, who was drunk and slipped in and out of consciousness, has testified that there are parts of the night that she does not recall.

A carousel operator took the city for a ride by keeping poor records of its financial transactions and failing to maintain sanitary conditions, New York City Comptroller John Liu charged on Friday.

The USS Intrepid is getting a make-over one block at a time. Lego artist Ed Diment is constructing a 22-foot, 550-lbs. Lego model of the USS Intrepid at the museum, just feet away from the actual aircraft carrier.

A Bronx charter school that's on state probation because of financial problems still managed to attract more than enough students at its lottery Thursday night.

PHOTOS. As another season in Coney Island approaches this weekend, workers are everywhere, sprucing the place up and erecting new rides on the boardwalk.

The image emblazoned on a new first-class postage stamp is modeled off of Las Vegas' Lady Liberty — not the original Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.

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Hours after receiving state approval to become the city's next schools chancellor, Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott received a hero's welcome at I.S. 98 in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, Thursday night.

State and local law enforcement along with the FBI are scouring on remote stretch of beach highway on Long Island in search of possible victims of a serial killer. Nassau County authorities said the search will now focus on areas that have been inaccessible by foot, where objects were spotted by helicopter.

Once a powerful public figure in New York, former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi is headed to prison for his role in a massive pay-to-play scheme.

Former New York city Mayor Ed Koch launched robocall attacks on state legislators, many of them Senate Republicans, whom Koch says have violated a pledge they signed to back non-partisan redistricting. And it’s not just the Republicans who are wary of changes to the way New York designs it’s legislative and congressional district lines.

Newly approved Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott joined students from 10 city schools in Bryant Park today to mark the ninth annual Poem in Your Pocket Day, an event to honor April as National Poetry Month.

The woman at the center of a rape case against two New York City cops took the stand Thursday to give a tearful account of what she said happened after Officers Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata helped her inside her East Village apartment.

Dennis Walcott got the green light from the state's education commission Thursday to head New York City's 1.1 million pupil school system.

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The city is launching a new green port initiative in Red Hook, Brooklyn, that will allow cruise ships to power up from the city's electrical grid when docked.

The city's Department of Education said the hundreds of thousands of lighting fixtures it plans to replace in the city's schools because they contain PCBs are also contaminated with asbestos.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has settled his first union contract with the prison guards union, which includes benefit and pay concessions.

A public hearing on the purchase of city land in Brooklyn by a major real estate developer Wednesday drew dozens of opponents who feared that Wal-Mart will move into the East New York property.