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Before the clock could strike midnight, the Knicks announced it would release stand out point guard Jeremy Lin.

Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng , a human rights champion who spent much of his career clashing with the government in his native county, told WNYC that his return to China is “inevitable.”

An MTA bus driver credited with saving a 7-year-old girl who fell three stories from a Brooklyn building said he was praying he would catch the young girl when he spotted her atop an air conditioning unit.

In New York, Linsanity may be nothing more than a hoop dream. Knicks standout point guard Jeremy Lin will be headed to the Houston Rockets if New York doesn’t match the team’s three-...

When asked if he was dipping a toe back into politics during his first radio interview since he resigned from office, former Congressman Anthony Weiner told WNYC last month that h...

By early evening, the only trace of the three-alarm fire at South Street Seaport that sent up billowing clouds of smoke Saturday afternoon was the lingering smoky smell.

The U.S. Olympic Committee and designer Ralph Lauren have agreed that Team USA’s outfits for the opening and closing ceremonies will be made in America for the 2014 Winter Games.

The likely contenders to replace Michael Bloomberg as mayor of New York began releasing fund raising numbers for the six-month filing period that ended Wednesday.

The mother of one of three children who died inside the cabin of a yacht that capsized on the Fourth of July believed it was the safest place for her daughter.

The crooked cop at the center of the Bronx ticket-fixing scandal tried to hire a hit man to kill a witness in his criminal case, prosecutors said.

A Cookie Monster spoof of pop starlet Carley Rae Jepsen’s hit “Call Me Maybe” has raked up more than 1.5 million page views since it was first posted on YouTube Wednesday.

It's official. The commissioners of NYC Board of Elections have certified all the results from the June 26 primary, including naming incumbent Congressman Charles Rangel the winner of the Democratic primary for the 13th Congressional District.

A company called Mortgage Resolution Partners wants local governments to use eminent domain to help homeowners drowning in debt.

An appeals court says New York City cannot scare smokers by requiring grotesque images at stores that sell cigarettes.

A former campaign treasurer for New York City Comptroller John Liu will get her day in court, almost a year after she was arrested.

A teen girl jumped from a chair lift in Seaside Heights last weekend to avoid getting struck by lightening during a fast-moving storm.

A rally was held in New York City protesting Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed crackdown on super-sized, sugary drinks. Not to be outdone, the Bloomberg administration released a 22-page press release of statements from people who support his proposal.

FBI divers are helping Long Island police officials investigating the July Fourth capsizing of a yacht that sank, killing three children.

A documentarian who chronicled long-term unemployment on Long Island for a new HBO documentary said he was “shocked” to find the new poor living in the suburbs once designed to foster middle-class lifestyles.

College Management, which has three buildings in the Bronx, earned the distinction of the city’s worst landlord, raking up 724 infractions, according to Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who issued the report.