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The annual Feast of San Gennaro that shuts down Mulberry Street in Little Italy for 11 days will continue despite complaints from businesses that the festival brings unwelcomed noise, crowds and smells.

 

 

The flag of Brooklyn flew at half mast Monday to commemorate the death of Brooklyn Dodgers legend Duke Snider, who died Sunday. He was 84.

Wind gusts of up to 25 mph are battering the city and causing delays at area airports and the FAA has activated a traffic management program, which limits the number of flights into local airports.

Dr. Richard Daines, the former state Health Commissioner who crusaded against childhood obesity and advocated for a sugar tax under Governors Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, died unexpectedly. He was 60.

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 tea...

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.

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.

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 Ma...

The NYPD will be forced to release more than a decade of reports detailing incidents of police shooting at civilians as the result of a State Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday. Since 1997, there have been more than 800 incidents of officers firing at civilians.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed an extended smoking ban into law Tuesday, outlawing smoking in the city's parks, beaches and public plazas.

The ongoing saga of the $65 million Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" continues, this time with tweaks to the score. Paul Bogaev, a veteran director will help improve the music written by U2's Bono and The Edge.

Two dozen workers whose wages were withheld have received a $2.35 million settlement, according to the New York City Comptroller's Office. The award is the largest on record at the ...

The city's Department of Education is cutting its school construction plans in half.

A tax increase that would save more than $750 million on Medicaid costs is one of dozens of proposals under consideration by state panel tasked with reducing New York's Medicaid costs.

Bahrain has taken its strongest action yet to clamp down on continuing protests in the country.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has joined with leaders of the fashion industry to push for immigration reform, saying rules in place now are preventing many fashion models from strutting down runways in the U.S.

A sweeping drug bust in Queens Thursday morning resulted in 14 indictments and 48 arrests for charges of selling powder and crack cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other recreational drugs.

The panel that Governor Andrew Cuomo assigned to find nearly $3 billion in Medicaid savings is now considering dozens of proposals, including one that would raise the requirements needed for hospital admissions and another that would limit coverage of brand-name prescription drugs.

A fellow at New York University resigned after he posted offensive tweets about CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan as news broke of her assault in Egypt.