Kathleen Horan

CUNY's Board of Trustees hopes to put a controversy to rest, now that a panel has voted to give Pulizer-Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner an honorary degree. The honor was put on hold last week after one trustee -- Jeffrey Wiesenfeld -- offered a critique on the playwright's views on Israel.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg set aside between $3 million and $5 million in his budget to fund 10 'innovative senior centers'--including one for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered New Yorkers.

The drivers group Taxi Workers Alliance is petitioning the city for a 15 percent fare increase seven years after the last across-the-board fare hike.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg awarded Nissan a 10-year, $1 billion contract on Tuesday to produce the city's future yellow cabs — but some officials are already trying to put the brakes on production.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is set to reveal the automaker that won the Taxi of Tomorrow design competition — and that will be responsible for creating a taxi model that will serve the city for the next decade as the 16 models currently in use are phased out.

One of the largest Polish American communities in the northeast — Greenpoint, Brooklyn — is celebrating the beatification of the late Pope John Paul II, who was Polish.

City lawmakers are looking into complaints about taxi refusals — and they have a few of their own.

Officials hope expensive tickets and the risk of suspension or license revocation will deter drivers from saying 'No' to customers seeking to travel to the outer boroughs. But most ...

One of the three automakers in the running to provide the city's yellow cabs for the next decade is vowing to build the cars in Brooklyn.

The shocking day-time stabbing of a popular pizzeria owner last week in the quiet Brooklyn neighborhood of Carroll Gardens stunned many — but for others, the brutal attack hearkened back to an era of Brooklyn's grittier past.

The Cyclone, the Wonder Wheel and Ruby's Bar: they’re are all back in business as Coney Island opens for another season.

PHOTOS. As another season in Coney Island approaches this weekend, workers are everywhere, sprucing the place up and erecting new rides on the boardwalk.

For teens and young adults beginning to mull their summer job options, those interested in employment with the city will face stricter competition than last year.

A Queens lawmaker who's pushing a bill to fight childhood obesity is getting attention for being overweight himself.

The city's elderly population is expected to grow by 50 percent over the next 20 years — and the city is trying to soften some of the edges of the urban environment to help seniors not only live longer but also more easily.

The Brooklyn Flea, already well known in the brownstone neighborhood of Fort Greene, has opened another location along the East River in Williamsburg.

Archbishop Timothy Dolan defended comments he made on his blog that the rate of sexual abuse among New York City public school teachers is higher than that among priests.

Move over Mahatma Gandhi, George Washington and Abe Lincoln — there’s a new statue in the Union Square area: artist and pop culture icon Andy Warhol.

The $132.5 billion tentative budget deal in Albany outraged Mayor Michael Bloomberg – but it’s not upsetting everyone. Elderly New Yorkers and their advocates are celebrating the allocation of funding for city senior centers.

Livery car and yellow cab drivers said the steadily rising cost of gas is threatening their livelihoods. And with the average price for a gallon of gas at $3.82 in New York City, some drivers say they're paying an extra hundred dollars a week at the pump.