Thousands of New York City apartment renters on Thursday won a major court victory that could help them keep lower rents, but may drive landlords into foreclosure and crater city tax revenues.
Recession-stricken New York City plans to double its current green work force by creating over 13,000 new jobs in the next decade, partly by competing with London to become the new center for carbon trading, a city official said on Wednesday.
Cuba will not allow dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez to travel to the United States to receive a journalism prize, Columbia University said on Tuesday.
The operators of Tavern on the Green, the bankrupt storied restaurant in New York's Central Park, have sued the City of New York for more time to auction off the restaurant's assets.
New York City will join the celebration of Columbus Day with the 65th Annual Christopher Columbus Day Parade on Monday beginning at 11:00 am EST.
Luis Armando Pena Soltren, a man wanted for the hijack of flight 281 of Pan American in the 1960's was arrested on Sunday in a New York City airport.
A rule that requires New York City fast food restaurants to post calorie information on their menu boards has not changed consumer habits in low-income neighborhoods, according to a study published on Tuesday.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, along with other leaders representing the region say additional federal funds are needed to improve the city's security against nuclear devices and “dirty” bombs.
This upcoming weekend of September 19 and 20 will be the final days of the 2009 San Gennaro Festival, an annual festival marking the patron of the saint of Naples.
New York City's new Croton water treatment plant will cost more than twice the original estimate of $992 million and it will not be finished on time, the city comptroller said on Tuesday.
New York City announced the closure of beaches in Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island on Friday in a bid to protect beachgoers against possible big waves as hurricane Bill approaches Bermuda.
A Canadian model has won a landmark case against Google, forcing them to disclose the online identity of a blogger who anonymously posted derogatory comments about the Vogue covergir
The first video of the moment of the collision between a helicopter and a small aircraft in New York City that killed nine people has emerged online on NBC.
New York City could become the grounds for a new kind of urban wind farm if a Cleveland-based mechanical engineer has his way.
New York City plans to use more than $200 million of federal stimulus funds for Recovery Zone Facility Bonds to spur stalled industrial and commercial projects, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Wednesday.
Two more people have died from the H1N1 flu in New York City, bringing the city's toll to seven from the new virus that has infected thousands of people worldwide, health department officials said on Wednesday.
President Obama’s military office aide resigned on Friday after an uproar over a low altitude flight by a jumbo jet used as Air Force One he approved over New York City which led bystanders to believe was part of another terrorist attack.
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A teenager Somali pirate arrived to face court hearing Tuesday in New York what are believed to be the first piracy charges in the United States in more than a century.
Actress Penelope Cruz has said she wants to leave Los Angeles and divide her time between New York and Madrid, a report said Saturday.
A US airways plane that landed in the Hudson River in New York City hit a bird that disabled two engines aviation officials said.
With financial markets finding it tough, even rich Manhattan could feel some pain.