Jurors heard recordings of what prosecutors claim are one of two New York City police officers accused of raping an intoxicated woman making a false call to 911 so they could be sent back to her East Village block.

The two jets that were involved in a minor collision on the runway at John F. Kennedy Airport last night will be inspected to determine the extent of their damage, officials said.

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The 109-year old Willis Avenue bridge drifted down the East River early Tuesday morning as it headed for Jersey City. It was replaced last July as part of a $612 million project.

PHOTOS. WNYC began visiting the World Trade Center site in April 2010 and continues to document the construction of One World Trade Center, the 9/11 Memorial, the transportation hub and the people working on the site.

Almost 10 years after the September 11, the country has still not acted on the 9/11 Commission's call for a dedicated nationwide wireless network linking first responders.

A human skull was found in the vegetation just 90 feet from Ocean Parkway on Monday as cops moved their search for evidence in the suspected serial killer slayings from Suffolk to adjacent Nassau County. More remains were found in a second location Monday, bringing the possible number of victims to 10.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has made reforming New York City's rent laws a top priority. The Assembly made the first move in what will likely be long, drawn out negotiations, approving a one house bill that Silver said will ensure that more renters can stay in their homes. He said affordable housing is "disappearing" every day.

A record number of New Yorkers slept in city homeless shelters last fiscal year, according to a report released Monday by an advocacy group.

All but one of New York City's congressional representatives voted against the stopgap spending measure late Friday night, and several of them said they're unlikely to vote for the budget later this week if it continues to include cuts for popular programs.

Former Mayor Ed Koch said Monday that his bridge is "better than the George Washington Bridge."

The city wants to reinvent a struggling Arabic-language middle school as a high school and relocate it from Fort Greene to downtown Brooklyn.

Students and community leaders began planting crops in the first farm located in downtown Manhattan since New Amsterdam was founded on Monday.

A loyal employee for a hedge fund founder charged in an insider trading case said his ex-boss was a hard-charging businessman.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly on Monday called for legislation to create wireless broadband network that law enforcement agencies could use to communicate with one another during emergencies.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's already-high approval rating got a boost in the wake of the budget deal, a new poll shows. The governor, who marked his 100th day in office on Sunday, had his approval rating increase to 73 percent —  up from 69 percent in March, according to the results of the Siena College poll released Monday.

The boyfriend of a 23-year-old Greenwich, Conn., woman who was stabbed to death over the weekend in the Lower East Side apartment they shared was charged with her murder on Monday.

Authorities found what they suspect are human remains in two more locations Monday after officials expanded their search for evidence from Suffolk to nearby Nassau County.

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