Kathleen Horan

For 100 days, workers have been scurrying around the clock to meet the Memorial Day weekend opening deadline for Coney Island's new Luna Park. They’ve unloaded 18,000 trucks, moved 3,000 tons of earth, unpacked 45 containers from Italy and assembled 19 new rides. The park operators say they’ve also gotten ...

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New York City released new figures today in the ongoing taxi overcharging scam, showing that 45 drivers overcharged passengers more than a thousand times each. The No. 1 offender overcharged passengers 4,683 times, according to the Taxi and Limousine Commission.

Some 600 of the worst offenders ...

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This March, New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission announced that more than 35,000 cab drivers, about three-quarters of New York City’s licensed taxi drivers, may have been involved in a scam to defraud passengers by charging them an out-of-town rate for in-town service.

The TLC’s ...

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Former President Bill Clinton visited members of a youth soccer clinic in Harlem Monday to spark interest in bringing the World Cup here. Clinton is the honorary chairman of the U.S. committee bidding for the World Cup in 2018 or 2022. He says soccer has ...

[slideshow id=217]Chelsea's Empire Diner will serve its last burger and shake this weekend. The owners of the iconic 10th Avenue spot that resembles a dining car lost their lease.

With its flashing "EAT" sign and black and chrome interior, the eatery looks like a set in a film noir. When ...

The city says it's gotten to the bottom of the taxi overcharging scam.

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The city's Taxi and Limousine Commission says it's gotten to the bottom of the cab meter overcharging scam. WNYC's Kathleen Horan reports that some 13,000 fewer drivers intentionally overcharged passengers than originally thought.

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A cold wind each day could keep the apples away. That's the concern of New York's apple growers, who say unseasonable temperature dips could threaten the buds and blossoms that will produce next fall's crops.

Peter Gregg, a spokesman for the New York Apple Association, says ...

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About 100 people gathered on the City Hall steps today to protest proposed budget cuts.

The demonstrators wanted city officials to restore funding for programs aimed at children, families, seniors, and immigrants.

Elderly New Yorkers came to protest budget cuts to the Department for the ...

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Elyse Francis (Photo by Kathleen Horan)

The new Coney Island amusement area called Luna Park opens in two weeks. For those who live in the neighborhood, it means more than 19 new rides and the start of summer; it means jobs ...

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Luna Park, the new Coney Island amusement park, opens on Memorial Day weekend. It will be the first sign of some of the changes that are promised as the city moves forward with its rezoning plan. But for residents, the amusement park itself means more ...

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Thousands of protesters holding signs reading "Save Our Jobs" and "Stop Corporate Greed" marched from City Hall Park to Wall Street on Thursday, calling for financial reform and a renewed focus on job creation. Some protesters even wheeled a huge house on wheels ...

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The homeless man who was left to die on a Queens sidewalk after defending a woman who was being attacked was remembered as a hero today.

Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax's open casket was surrounded by family and friends at a wake in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

His cousin Edwin Tacam ...

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The city is expanding its emergency public alert system, called Notify NYC, to include missing senior citizens. About 600 older adults go missing each year, often due to Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs says the city will trigger a ...

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There are still a few hundred travelers, down from about a thousand over the weekend, camping out at JFK airport after their flights were canceled because of the volcanic ash in the skies over Europe.

Lionel Tyler, who works for a limo company at JFK, says ...

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Applicants seeking employment at the new amusement park in Coney Island, called Luna Park, are coming out in droves, hoping to get hired. Darnell Adams, 19, applied at a recruitment event Tuesday and says he's tired of pounding the payment.

"I went to McDonald's like three ...

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More than a month after the city announced that taxi drivers were overcharging riders, officials still don't know exactly how many passengers were bilked. The City Council's transportation committee chair James Vacca raised questions about that today.

"I'm sure you can understand, Commissioner, that if something ...

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Is there something you’ve been meaning to ask a taxi driver -- or do you have some feedback for city officials about getting around town by yellow cab?

Please leave your questions and comments below and we’ll ...

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The Easter holiday is an occasion that often inspires creative haberdashery.

REPORTER: Many New Yorkers will wear their spring-like hats to church. Others will don them at the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet festival along 5th Avenue. Marla Cook, Manager of The Hat Shop on Thomposn ...