PHOTOS. Fans flocked to the Yankees season home opener in the Bronx Thursday.

Proposed cuts to the city's Parks Department — including scaling back hours of more than 1000 full-time employees — have some local union members up in arms.

The same day the Bronx Zoo cobra was captured after it vanished for nearly a week, professional reptile wrangler Shaun Heflick weighed in and said New Yorkers never had much to worry about.

Archbishop Timothy Dolan defended comments he made on his blog that the rate of sexual abuse among New York City public school teachers is higher than that among priests.

As the Yankees wound up for their Bronx home opener Thursday, fan Michael O'Hara and his wingman watched the game action from the comfort of a so-called fan cave in the East Village — where they will hunker down to watch 2,430 regular season baseball games this season.

Friends, family and political heavyweights – including a former president – gathered at an upper East Side church Thursday to pay final respects to trailblazer Geraldine Ferraro, a woman who tore down barriers for females in politics and was the first female candidate for U.S. vice president on a major party ticket.

The missing Bronx Zoo cobra has been found, officials said Thursday. The disappeared Egyptian cobra whose whose whereabouts drew national attention since she went missing from its habitat last week.

Cuomo brought together dozens of different health groups in a six-week process and demanded they propose steep cuts — or be subject to them across-the-board. Eventually his Medicaid Redesign Team found $2.35 billion in savings, most of which come from freezing or cutting state payments to hospitals and other medical service providers.

The Bloomberg Administration is still looking at the city's share of the state budget, but officials say it appears as though the legislature restored only about 1/3 of the $600 million the mayor relied on his budget — which already included agency cuts and nearly 4,700 teacher layoffs.

This is snow joke: An April Fool's storm that will unleash a wintry mix on the Northeast late tonight and into tomorrow, according to the Natinoal Weather Service.

A who's who of Democrats came to pay their respects Thursday at the upper East Side funeral mass for former Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for U.S. vice president on a major party ticket.

The budget bus that crashed in the Bronx and resulted in the deaths of more than a dozen passengers was going up to 78 miles per hour when it flipped on its side, it was revealed Wednesday during a Senate committee meeting on motor coach safety in the wake of three crashes in recent weeks.

Move over Mahatma Gandhi, George Washington and Abe Lincoln — there’s a new statue in the Union Square area: artist and pop culture icon Andy Warhol.

As the budget is finalized in Albany, details about how it will affect the health care industry have emerged — including a new tax on hospitals that will set up an insurance fund for lawsuits from birth defects, no office-based surgery tax for doctors and no increase in co-pay for many Medicaid patients.

In the wake of a recent crackdown that revealed widespread fraud, the city is urging New Yorkers to invest wisely in a credible tax preparer.

A once-notorious Bronx juvenile detention facility that gained notoriety decades ago for its inhuman conditions has officially been shuttered by the city, officials announced Wednesday.

State lawmakers planned to work into the evening in an attempt to finish up the state budget one day before the deadline. Hundreds of protesters, upset with budget cuts, marched and chanted, and decried the near- shutdown of access to the Senate and Assembly chambers.

In his second day of testimony, ex-trader Adam Smith testified that Raj Rajaratnam's employees at Galleon Group learned how to disguise trades to make them seem legitimate.

Nearly 3,200 New York City children are on wait lists to attend kindergarten in the public schools — an increase of 40 percent over the same time last year.