Tracie Hunte

The group overseeing Pier 40 on the West Side of Manhattan wants to change the law to allow for new kinds of commerce to help generate revenue for the crumbling, cash-strapped structure.

More than 40,000 ulta-Orthodox Jewish men will gather at Citi Field Sunday to discuss how to use modern technology – including how to avoid potential dangers of the Internet.

Argentine tourists Florencia Colacioppo and Noelia Pfeiffer are visiting New York City for nine days. In that time, they plan to see Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge, Chinatown, Chelsea and visit museums.

Nearly 6,000 residents in four council districts green lit projects from security cameras in public housing in Upper Manhattan to an outdoor performance space in the Rockaways, according to the results of the city’s first-ever participatory budget vote released Wednesday.

Some Brooklyn and Manhattan community members who had a hand in choosing the projects to finance in their neighborhoods will soon find out how $1 million of their tax dollars will be spent.

Murray Lender, who helped turn his father’s small Connecticut bakery into a national company that introduced bagels to many Americans for the first time, has died in Florida. He was 81.

Spring officially begins next month, but uncharacteristically warm winter is sending a different signal to the area’s plants, according to local farmers.

Relatives of a foreign correspondent from Long Island killed while covering the Syrian uprising are remembering Marie Colvin's tenacious spirit and dedication to her craft.

A reactor at the Indian Point Nuclear Plant that was shut down for repairs should be back online before the end of the week, officials with the company said Tuesday.

The New Jersey Department of Education said Thursday that 200 school board members must step down from their posts for failure to complete a required criminal background check.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared Cornell University the winner of a competition to build an applied sciences campus in New York City.

Artists complained on Sunday they have been unfairly slapped with fines in city parks since the implementation of a regulation more than a year ago that prohibits them from collecting money within 50 feet of a monument or fountain.

Food trucks and carts should be governed under the same letter-grading system that currently applies to New York City restaurants, according to a Queens lawmaker.

The New York Botanical Garden is celebrating the restoration of the its old-growth forest on Saturday and Sunday.

The city has agreed to provide better services for children aging out of the foster care system, the Administration for Children’s Services vowed on Friday.