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A Soviet refugee is suing a Financial District preschool for refusing to allow his son's Star of David necklace, reported The Daily News.
The chairman and CEO of Battery Park City's governing board, Dennis Mehiel, resigned Tuesday effective immediately.
Tenants at 85 Bowery in the Lower East Side were evacuated in January and aren't expected to move back in until the end of the summer.
Lower East Side restaurant Les Enfants de Bohème will donate a portion of its ice cream sales Wednesday for World Refugee Day.
The Tribeca lawyer thought her attacker was dancing moments before she was struck in the face with a metal box, reported the Daily News.
The NYPD's most decorated detective has gone from collaring perps in the South Bronx to selling slices in the West Village.
A man who was hit by a car while flirting with a woman in Chelsea is now in a coma, reported the New York Post.
Tenants renewed demands urging the Manhattan district attorney and the state attorney general investigate the landlord.
Three men were shot in the West Village Sunday morning after a fight at the Falucka Lounge on Bleecker Street, police said.
A man biking on the Manhattan Bridge died Sunday after he passed out and struck his head on a support beam, police said.
Officers were called to the Orchard Street home when the infant was discovered unconscious Friday morning, police said.
One Midtown and two Lower Manhattan subway stations will shutter for six months of repairs starting in July, the MTA announced.
Glass skyscraper, 19 Dutch, has begun leasing its 483 apartments in the Financial District, New York YIMBY reported.
Residents of the Lowest East Side co-op turned down a deal that would have cleared the way for two condo towers.
"White b---h, take that!" shouted the attacker before she struck the victim in the face with a metal make-up box in Tribeca, said police.
A new City Council bill aims to expand the vendor-free zone near the World Trade Center, but advocates say the plan is Islamophobic.
The MTA plans to temporarily close the Grand Canal Basketball Courts in Soho to build an underground substation, officials said.
The crook, Robert Taylor, was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly committing eight robberies since May 6, police said.
A Bronx man who allegedly went on a masturbating spree in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens was arrested Wednesday, said police.
"We want to make sure they see the memories people are sharing," said a construction worker at "Brasserie Les Halles."
