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Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington donated more than $2 million to his alma mater Fordham University.
 

The focus of the investigation into the deadly East River helicopter crash will be equipment aboard the doomed chopper that crashed into the river shortly after takeoff on Tuesday, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

The City Council is expected to pass a bill Wednesday to increase the scrutiny of the city's outside contracting in order to prevent another scandal, like CityTime, an outsourced payroll project with millions in cost overruns.

Victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme are getting some of the money back.

A helicopter with five on board crashed into the East River near 34th Street on Tuesday afternoon, police said. The pilot and three others were plucked from the river shortly after t...

Apple unveiled an iPhone 4S on Tuesday that will run faster and has new mobile software that can sync content wirelessly, without having to plug an iPhone to a Mac or Windows machine.

Protests against Wall Street entered their 18th day Tuesday as demonstrators across the country show their anger over the wobbly economy and what they see as corporate greed by marching on Federal Reserve banks.

Amy Goodman, host of the New York-based television and radio show "Democracy Now!," said that she and two of the shows producers won a $100,000 from a settlement with the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and the federal government over their arrests during the 2008 Republican National Convention.

The Nobel Foundation said the Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to a cell biologist will remain unchanged, even though he died three days before the announcement.

The paper's food critic, Sam Sifton, will become the National Desk Editor after two years of tasting and writing about the city's delicacies.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg testified Monday against a former campaign operative accused of bilking him out of more than $1 million, with the mayor saying he thought the money was being spent on a poll-monitoring operation and never intended for the consultant to end up with it.

The al-Qaida leader who inspired the Times Square bomb plot and helped plan numerous other attacks on the U.S. including the attempted Christmas Day jetliner bombing was killed in a U.S. strike Friday, officials said.

The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum may build an off-site museum to house the space shuttle Enterprise, officials close to the plans told WNYC.

A New York state university student and her mother will stay in the U.S. for now after an immigration judge in Manhattan decided Thursday to review their case.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's dispatched an aide to New Hampshire to meet with local activists to gauge interest in a possible presidential bid.

A lawyer for Irving Picard, the trustee overseeing the recovery of money for cheated investors from Bernard Madoff's ponzi scheme, said a judge's ruling means that first payouts to investors won't go out as planned Friday.

New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly clarified a statement he made that the NYPD could shoot down a plane, adding the department only had the ability to shoot down small planes, like crop dusters.

New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the department will conduct its own investigation into use of pepper spray during a protest against Wall Street last week.

A new Department of Correction steering committee wants to develop a plan to prevent mentally ill persons from landing in jail — and keeping them out of lock-up once they are released.

AAA sued the Port Authority on Tuesday over recent toll hikes at Hudson River bridges and tunnels.