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Conde Nast Publications may move to the World Trade Center. That's according to an e-mail to employees that was obtained by WNYC, which said Conde Nast is "in active negotiations" to move to 1 World Trade Center, the building formerly known as the Freedom Tower.

The man who created Cheeze Doodles, the crunchy, tube-shaped orange snacks, has died. Morrie Yohai's son, Robbie, confirmed that his father died of cancer at his Long Island home in Kings Point on July 27 at the age of 90.

Police say they've arrested a suspect in the latest alleged bias attack against Latinos on Staten Island. The NYPD says the suspect is 15 years old and is facing charges of second degree robbery, which includes assault and aggravated harassment as a hate crime.  

The City Council has approved a plan to redevelop a section of Brooklyn waterfront where the renowned Domino Sugar refinery once stood.

Photo by Kathleen Horan

The woman who was to marry Sean Bell before he was shot and killed by police on the morning of their wedding day is getting $3.25 million from the city to settle the family's wrongful death claim.

Schorr, an award-winning journalist who reported on many of the most important stories of the second half of the 20th century, including the Cold War and Watergate and worked on the launch of CNN, has died. He recently appeared on The Takeaway to talk about how the news business has changed.

A robbery suspect dubbed the "bouquet bandit" because he held fresh flowers while stealing cash from a bank in Chelsea was arrested today at his home in Brooklyn.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker says he wants to reduce non-union city workers to a four-day work week, starting in late September, to deal with a $150 million budget gap. He's also planning on laying off 350 firefighters and police officers.

When New York City lawmakers put together their $64 billion budget, they were hoping to get $600 million over the next three years from Washington in the form of Federal Medical Assistance Percentages, or, FMAP funding.

David Cameron is in New York today to meet with the heads of JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon, BlackRock and Citadel.

NHL Commissioner Bill Daly has rejected a landmark, seventeen-year, $102 million contract with New Jersey Devils star Ilya Kovalchuk.

The US Attorney’s Office has brokered a $19 million settlement for a piece of art stolen by the Nazis.

Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey are urging Britain's newly-elected Prime Minister, David Cameron, to re-open an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. Most of the victims of the flight were American.

State and city officials in New York are bracing for the loss of $1.7 billion in federal Medicaid funding, after Congressional Democrats dropped the funding in order to win GOP support for a bill to extend unemployment benefits to millions of Americans.

State and city officials in New York are bracing for the loss of $1.7 billion in federal Medicaid funding, after Congressional Democrats dropped the funding in order to win GOP support for a bill to extend unemployment benefits to millions of Americans.

A heated debate developed at Monday night's public hearing of the New York City Charter Revision Commission. The issue: Do open primary elections hurt or help the democratic process?

A verdict is expected Thursday in the manslaughter case stemming from a deadly crane collapse in Midtown two years ago.

Teenagers seeking a deep tan may have to rely on the sun and not the tanning bed from now on.