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The city is making the first of many expected changes as it overhauls its 911 system.

The rally by the union representing the Metropolitan Opera’s janitors, ushers and security guards came a day after the company's management warned of a potential lockout.

An investigation by The New York Times reveals the office of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo repeatedly interfered with the commission he created to root out corruption in Albany.

Malcolm Smith is on trial for bribery, extortion and wire fraud charges, but a strange twist involving 300 Yiddish voice recordings and a limited time to translate them could lead this whole thing towards a mistrial.

A report in the New York Times examines working conditions for laborers who helped build an NYU outpost.

A day trip to the beach seems simple enough. But for a pair of twenty-something hipsters from Williamsburg, making it from their apartment to Fort Tilden in The Rockaways becomes a journey that tests friendships and life choices. There are even some adorable kittens and a cast of eccentric Brooklynites ...

The German shepherds — six-year-old Hondo and three-year-old Timoshenko — are on the ground in Washington. See photos of them departing JFK. 

Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov announced he is moving ahead with plans to transfer the company that runs the team to Russia.

Reporter Michael Schwirtz found that, this year alone, at least a dozen inmates have been slashed or stabbed.

After a deadly derailment in December that killed four people, Metro-North's operations have come under intense scrutiny by federal authorities.

A Duke University Professor who has studied urban gas infrastructure explains what it takes for a disaster to happen. 

After Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson was convicted on bribery charges Monday, his seat became the 11th vacancy at the New York State legislature.

New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez has sued Major League Baseball and its players' union on Monday, seeking to overturn an arbitrator's ruling that the Yankees slugger should be suspended for an entire season for using performance enhancing drugs. The suspension bars Rodriguez for 162 games including potential playoff appearances.

It's downright frigid in New York today.

The passing of Nelson Mandela has the entire world reflecting on his influence — positive and negative.

New York Magazine, long known as a cultural touchstone and pioneer in the magazine journalism world, is going bi-weekly.

Online gaming in New Jersey officially began Monday at midnight. After a soft rollout last week gaming regulators green-lit six online casinos in the Garden State. New Jersey now joins Delaware and Nevada as the only other states to offer legal online betting with real money.

Voter turnout on Election Day Tuesday appears to have set a record low of 24 percent. Slightly more than one million of New York City’s 4.3 million registered voters cast their ballots.  

Are big department stores taking the uproar over "shop and frisk" seriously? 

Space fans can now explore the mysterious world of dark energy and dark matter at the American Museum of Natural History.