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Officials are investigating the cause of a four-alarm fire at a Manhattan synagogue that blanketed blocks of the Upper East Side in smoke last night.

Ex-International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's court date has being postponed to August — and his lawyers said they hope his next appearance in court linked to the sexual assault case against him will be the last.

More than 11,000 reservations for the September 11 Memorial were booked online within the first hours after the ticket website went live Monday morning. 

A fire that broke out at Rikers Island on Sunday and injured four firefighters has forced 241 inmates to relocate to different parts of the facility, according to the city's Department of Corrections.

Later this month, Mayor Michael Bloomberg will officiate his third wedding as mayor: the marriage of his chief policy adviser, John Feinblatt, and the city's commissioner of consumer affairs, Jonathan Mintz.

The West Nile virus has been detected in mosquitoes from Eltingville, a community in southern Staten Island, according to city health officials.

A longtime former district attorney praised his successor for how he handled the sexual assault case against ex-International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

The city is preparing for a high turnout when it begins performing same-sex marriages for the first time on Sunday, July 24.

Defense lawyers for ex-International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said they had a productive meeting with prosecutors as they left the District Attorney's office in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday.

A third construction worker and a company have been acquitted of manslaughter in connection with a deadly blaze at the former Deutsche Bank building in Lower Manhattan that killed two firefighters in 2007.

The corruption case against former Secaucus, New Jersey Mayor Dennis Elwell is now in the hands of a jury, following closing arguments on Tuesday. Elwell was arrested, along with dozens of others, in a 2009 sting, and resigned from his mayoralty soon after.

The woman who has accused ex-International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault has now filed a suit against the New York Post for libel.

The city pension funds earned their highest returns in 13 years, according to New York City Comptroller John Liu said.

The tabloid war between the New York Post and the New York Daily News is getting costly — for their readers.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the state's first-ever property tax cap into law on Thursday.

Governor Andrew Cuomo said he will close seven state prisons, camps and work release facilities within 60 days  — including facilities in the Bronx and Staten Island.

Governor Chris Christie, averting a shutdown of nonessential services, has stricken items he viewed as unfavorable from the $30.6 billion New Jersey budget before signing it into law.

A Nigerian man who sneaked onto a Virgin Atlantic flight last week flew from New York to Los Angeles used an invalid boarding pass to get on the plane, the FBI said.

Three men caught in an FBI sting to blow up synagogues in New York City and shoot down military planes were sentenced to 25 years in prison in federal court in Manhattan on Wednesday.

About 150 turtles crawled onto the tarmac at Kennedy Airport Wednesday morning in search of beaches on which to lay their eggs causing dozens of flights to be delayed.