Sarah Kate Kramer

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A district court judge says New York City Transit must allow the public full access to the hearings of the Transit Adjudication Board. That's where low-level cases like hopping turnstiles, littering, and smoking in subway stations are tried. Chris Dunn of the New York Civil ...

As the city's immigrant population grows, so does the need for medical interpreters in the public hospital system. A new 45-hour certification program run by CUNY is training Spanish and Polish speaking New Yorkers to serve as a ...

U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan will face 13 initial murder charges for shooting colleagues at the Fort Hood military base in Texas last week.

Darren Aronofsky's latest project centers on a New York City Ballet dancer.

A whirlwind of performances is taking place in New York City at Performa 09, which runs from November 1-22.

Thursday night is opening night at the Metropolitan Opera for From the House of the Dead.

State legislators were unable to make hard decisions on the budget or on gay marriage Tuesday.

The president marks Veterans Day with a visit to Arlington Cemetery and a huddle with his military advisors about Afghanistan.

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After two years studying conditions at youth detention centers in New York state, federal investigators say workers routinely use force when they don't have to.

Most juvenile inmates in the centers come from New York City. The US Department of Justice released a report yesterday showing ...

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Taxi cab advocates and elected officials are outraged that three livery cab drivers have been fatally shot while on the job this year. Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Junior says he'll be working with the police to ensure the assailants are brought to justice.

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That's the sound of an endangered blue whale singing only 70 miles off of New York City's coastline. The whale was on its way to Maine for the summer, ...

Sonia Sotomayor, Obama's pick for the U.S. Supreme Court, was raised in The Bronxdale Houses, a public housing project in the Soundview section of the Bronx. Some are calling it a "rags to riches" story, but many longtime residents of Bronxdale say the projects get a bad rep. They aren't surprised one of their own has made it so far--especially one that lived here in the 1950s and 1960s.

"There's a lot of good people in here. A lot of kids that left from here went to college, got good degrees, got good jobs. No, I'm not surprised. I'm glad for her, I think it's wonderful."

That was Gertrude Gill, who moved into the Bronxdale Houses 35 years ago. At that time, getting an apartment in the city's new housing project was a sign of climbing up the social ladder. But she says life in Bronxdale is not as good as it once was.

"It was beautiful when I moved here. Absolutely gorgeous. Just wonderful. But it has deteriorated, it has gone down."

Jose, who works as a security guard in city schools, has also been a resident of Bronxdale for 35 years. He says it was a solid working class neighborhood when he moved in, and he's seen its highs and lows.

"A lot of good people have come from Housing. A lot of good people! And a lot of people from the Bronx become assemblymen and councilmen and senators. So it's not all bad. I'm not saying it's all good, but it's not all bad either."

As the date nears for the state legislature to decide on renewing mayoral control over public schools, city leaders are putting in their two cents. City Comptroller William Thompson - a Democrat running for mayor - released a report today titled "Powerless Parents," accusing the DOE of leaving parents ...

In Brooklyn, there's cachet being in 718. In Manhattan, 212 means you're olde skool New York. Soon, New Yorkers will have even more area codes to contend with, because we're running out of phone numbers. The State Public Service Commission says by 2011, the city won't have ...

Former Mayor David Dinkins endorses Mayoral Candidate William Thompson

Firefighters protest fire house closures outside City Hall

The M8 Bus connects the East and West Village

It's a silver lining for East and West Villagers. Under the latest MTA bailout proposal, bus and train fares will only go up ...

A Bloomberg appointee to the city's Commission on Women's Issues has resigned. Betsy Perry came under fire for her controversial article about Mexico posted on the Huffington Post blog last week. Perry wrote that swine flu might be a good excuse to close the U.S. border with Mexico, as ...

It's Poem in Your Pocket Day and lyrical verses are being recited all over the city. In Bryant Park this afternoon, students from all five boroughs read poems they penned themselves. Fourteen-year-old Anais McCalaster goes to the Bronx High School for Writing and Communication Arts. She read her poem "Where I'm from."

Some of the poems were light hearted rhymes, while others took serious turns. Eleventh grader Rahad Gul read a poem inspired by his war-torn homeland, Pakistan. It's called "My Other Home:"

The city's diverse student population was reflected in the subject matter. Fourteen year old Naomi Castillo read a poem called "it's not just Puerto Rico."

A fleet of NYC yellow cabs is driving up to Albany this morning to protest the state senate's latest proposal to balance the MTA budget--a $1 surcharge on cab rides. Taxi drivers say they'll be bearing the brunt of the tax. Joe Morone says he knows from his 35 ...