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Local leaders slammed the MTA and DOT for the "unacceptable" select bus route that will bring dozens of buses to Kenmare Street.
Police arrested and charged Julio Mendez early Tuesday for allegedly attacking a woman outside her East 13th Street laundry room.
Brompton Bicycles is inviting New Yorkers to join artist Adam Fujita as part of their artist series showcasing local talent.
The water quality in New York Harbor is the cleanest it has been in nearly 110 years, according to a new city report.
The 15-year-old who plummeted to her death Sunday was an aspiring actress who went to Beacon High School.
The 57-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.
Locals will rally Wednesday demanding the DOT and MTA conduct additional air quality and traffic studies for the area.
The mayor said the owner of the PS 64 building refuses to negotiate a sale, but the developer says the city hasn't even reached out to him.
J.R. Smith was charged with criminal mischief for chucking a fan’s cellphone into a Chelsea construction site, authorities said.
Some 100 tenants will return to their homes after two hunger strikes, court hearings and several protests.
An upstate man walked into Tribeca's 1st Precinct and confessed to chopping up a woman in Bushwick four years ago, police said.
A Fulton Street J train struck and rolled over a man early Friday morning. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital with a minor injury.
The brazen pervert grabbed the boy mere feet from his mother at the 17th Street bookstore Wednesday, police said.
The experience includes a ball room with a giant "boba tea" bottle.
The gym opened this week at 200 Orchard Street on the Lower East Side–East Village boarder.
Eric Contreras is leaving his prestigious post at the high school in the midst of a debate on how to admit students to the school.
The city fined Daniel Odigie $16,000 for submitting faulty designs for nine more sidewalk sheds, city records show.
Police officer Elijah Saladeen was indicted in New York State Supreme Court Wednesday for assaulting a 19-year-old in Chelsea last year.
The Lower East Side route is the last of six initial NYC Ferry lines and more may be on the way.
The city's Department of Buildings fined Kushner Companies $210,000 for 42 violations, according a Times report.
