Several hundred opponents of Arizona’s controversial new immigration law marched across the Brooklyn Bridge and rallied for immigrants’ rights in Lower Manhattan on Thursday.

There was hawkish rhetoric on the steps of City Hall this afternoon directed at an unlikely foe: bed bugs.

New York commemorated the 20^th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act at Lincoln Center on Monday with speakers from arts organizations, groups representing the disabled and a performance by 4 Wheel City, a duo that raps about the challenges of being wheelchair-bound.

Twenty middle-school girls pulled on chest-high waders and went fishing with old-fashioned seine nets in the East River Friday morning. They are participants in a three-week City Parks Foundation summer program called Green Girls that tries to get 11-to-13-year-old girls interested in science and the environment.

When you’re sweating like an ogre on a 95 degree summer day, Michael Anderson is keeping cool while keeping an eye on about 20,000 pounds of cheese.

Anderson is the cheese cave manager and affineur—cheese refiner or ager—at Murray’s Cheese Shop on Bleecker Street, where the tons of cheese are kept in ...

Community gardeners are concerned about proposed new rules that would further regulate 300 gardens overseen by the city.

Gardeners like Edward Coleman, who has been growing vegetables in the East Village for 10 years, worry that the new rules will allow the city to seize community gardens to put ...

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On the one-year anniversary of Michael Jackson's death, a block party atmosphere took hold in front of the Apollo Theater in Harlem Friday morning, as scores of Michael Jackson fans--many dressed like the man himself--came out to pay tribute to their fallen King. Boomboxes were turned up and ...

Drop that Frisbee and break out the sheet music.

USDA Wildlife technicians are on a wild goose chase in New York City 's parks and waterways this June and July. They're rounding up 800 geese within a seven-mile radius of LaGuardia and JFK airports in an effort to reduce the number of bird strikes.

“We’re reducing the resident Canada Goose ...

Drop that Frisbee and break out the sheet music.

British artist Luke Jerram has set up 60 pianos in city parks and public spaces for anyone to play. It's part of a public art project called "Play Me, I'm Yours" that’s bringing the hand-decorated instruments to locations like the Staten ...

The city has unveiled two powerful new trucks that really suck — debris that is, and other sediments that can clog sewer pipes.

One of two new trucks unveiled June 16, 2010 (Photo by Daniel P. Tucker)

The city has unveiled two powerful new trucks that really suck -- debris that ...

About half of the subway tracks running through Lower Manhattan have serious rat problems, according to health department officials. The department conducted a study of 58 tracks that run south of Canal Street in the 18 stations they pass through. The study found that 28 tracks has serious infestations

The rats ...

Hundreds of New York City high school students walked out of class Friday afternoon and converged near City Hall, where they held a fiery rally over the MTA’s proposed plan to eliminate student MetroCards. Most of the students said their families cannot afford to pay $1,000 a year per child ...