The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by city officials who want to force cabs to purchase more fuel-efficient cars.

About 80 percent of the city's more than 1,600 schools are affected. Fifty-four city schools will lose at least 30 percent of their teaching force because of rules requiring new teachers to be the first to go during layoffs.

Rep. Anthony Weiner is asking the city to remove a statue in Queens he said is offensive and sell it on Craigslist.

The city will spend nearly $33 million a year to lease roughly one-third of one of the office towers being built at the World Trade Center site, officials said Friday.

A fatal five-alarm fire that tore through a Flatbush, Brooklyn, apartment building last Saturday was caused by candles used in a voodoo ceremony, according to a FDNY officials.

Thousands of public unionists and their supporters rallied in Trenton, New Jersey on Friday, Feburary 25.

The National Weather Service issued a high wind warning in effect from 3 p.m. until 11 p.m. for the city. Sustained winds of 20 to 30 mph with gusts reaching 60 mph were predicted for Friday.

Thousands of public sectors workers braved driving cold rain in Trenton on Friday to show solidarity with public workers in Wisconsin and other states: "We are Wisconsin! We are Wisconsin! We are Wisconsin!" demonstrators chanted.

Nearly a thousand public workers and their unions massed at lunch time in front of City Hall on Thursday in solidarity with public employees in Wisconsin and other states that face the prospects of layoffs and pension and benefit rollbacks.

A state commission appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo to trim Medicaid costs approved a package on Thursday that officials said will save billions of dollars.

Union members protest Mayor Michael Bloomberg's policies toward unions and show solidarity with Wisconsin workers Thursday afternoon.

WITH PHOTOS. A rush hour collision involving a motorcycle and three buses has forced the partial closure of the Lincoln Tunnel, injuring dozens of commuters and shutting down two Manhattan-bound lanes.

An anti-abortion group's controversial billboard was taken down from its Soho location Thursday night.

A panel charged with trimming the state’s ever-growing Medicaid budget meets Thursday and Friday to finalize a series of proposals that could change the way millions of low-income New Yorkers receive health care.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Mayor Michael Bloomberg endorsed a plan to increase federal penalties on states that are not enforcing background checks for prospective gun buyers.

The city is abuzz with news that one of the NBA's top scorers, four-time All-Star Carmelo Anthony will make his debut as a New York Knick at Madison Square Garden Wednesday night during a press conference. The team has not confirmed whether he will take the court.

The city vowed on Wednesday to replace all lighting fixtures that contain the toxic chemical PCB in public schools within 10 years after a federal investigation uncovered elevated levels of the known neurotoxin and suspected carcinogen.

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.

A viral campaign that's motivating people from all over the world to donate pizza to hungry Wisconsin protestors has hit New York. Manhattan DJ Todd Wilkinson said an online post inspired him to collect donations during happy hour at his local haunts.