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The Council member will introduce a bill expanding the times when the Sanitation department can fine businesses for dirty sidewalks.
The annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival, with roots in the 1870s, will kick off this year starting at 10 a.m. Easter Sunday.
Cyrus was charged with the murder of a beloved Upper East Side bodega worker in a shooting last month, officials said.
New Yorke's restauranteurs winged another clean week in the Big Apple.
Fore! Well....Five.
"We will not be cowed, we will not be intimidated," said Council Member Erik Bottcher this morning.
A 63-year-old man was hit on the head after arguing with another man in the subway station beneath Grand Central, police said Thursday.
The residential project at the former Keller Hotel appears to be finishing facade work.
Thomas Blackwell, who went by Tommy Playboy, was a trans model who brought life and energy to a community struggling to find space.
A new Italian place from the owners of Avra Madison and two new spots — both with roots in Sant Ambroeus — were presented Tuesday night.
The robbers had bolt cutters, a taser, knife and fake gun when cops caught up with them in the Second Avenue restaurant, police said.
Four of those charged were minors, according to police.
The scene outside the courthouse Tuesday was chaotic but peaceful, charged but contained, and eminently New York.
“I don’t know about you, but my dream is to live in a world where people look at a roll of toilet paper and say, ‘What is that?’”
Hundreds march from Union Square to Washington Square Park in a peaceful gathering where attendees said they celebrated Trans joy.
A lawyer for the longtime hotdog spot told Patch that the new location a block north will be opening on April 5.
Jacob Barroso, 30, surrendered to authorities after police send out a call for three suspects Friday, officials said.
A motorcyclist who police say attacked an off-duty police officer walking his dog in Yorkville last week was arrested and charged on Friday.
An unidentified 38-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell Saturday afternoon and later died, police said.
The man died the same weekend a woman was punched in the face by subway robbers and cops released images of a transit groper, officials say.
