Tracie Hunte

The Department of Justice is expected to re-open the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund starting Monday — allowing people whose illness didn't manifest until the months and years after the attacks to be covered for the first time.

The two top leaders of a Bronx-based coalition of Hispanic construction workers have pleaded not guilty to charges they threatened builders with violence in order to extract money and jobs from them.

The city's plan to dismantle its 130-year-old fire alarm call box system was dealt a blow Monday when a federal judge ruled the plan discriminated against the deaf and hearing impaired.

Under threat of nearly 10,000 layoffs, members of New York's largest public employees' union will soon find out the status of a new five-year contract with New York State.

Nassau County residents head to the polls Monday to decide the fate of the decades old Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

As the city gears up for the sixth annual Made in NY Awards to honor individuals in film, TV, theater and digital media Monday night, 2011 figures show a record number of TV projects were shot in the city this year. 

It may not be the worst allergy season ever, but that's not much of a relief to sniffling and sneezing New Yorkers. And according to experts, things are going to get worse before they get better.

It's an annual rite of season. Rain or shine, people in their spring finest stroll up Fifth Avenue from 49th to 57th streets in the annual Easter Parade.  And what Easter Parade would be complete without an array of Easter bonnets festooned for the season.  

Two hundred years ago, the island of Manhattan was a thriving port city with a rapidly growing population and scattered farms dotting much of the northern part of the island. But even then, city planners knew Manhattan could become one of the great cities in the world. And a great city deserves a great street grid. Today marks the 200th anniversary of that initiative.

Outer borough residents have been complaining for days they've been neglected by the city's snow plows. Now, Public Advocate Bill DeBlasio says he has the data to back them up.