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David Glass, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Protection, said the homes were all bought out under the state's Blue Acres program and the families were relocated.
Japanese police are investigating phone calls threatening to kill U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and another American envoy, authorities said Wednesday.
A unanimous vote on Wednesday by the City Planning Commission has paved the way for high-rise office buildings to add evacuation elevators.
The congressional candidate said the federal government made life for Sandy victims even worse.
Police cars were seen at Durst's Houston apartment on Tuesday.
Between commuting time and work hours, New York City residents have the longest workweeks among the country's 30 biggest cities, city Comptroller Scott Stringer said in a report released Tuesday.
Monopoly is celebrating 80 years of capitalist cunning and dinner-table deals.
Marquest Hall, of Stamford, was arraigned Tuesday in the fatal stabbing of Antonio Muralles, 52, last Wednesday outside the McDonald's on Bedford Street.
Just like an old Western where one man stays and the other gets out of Dodge, this town isn't big enough for two top goaltenders.
Trains are running on or close to schedule again after a track condition in one of the East River tunnels snarled the morning commute for Long Island Rail Road riders.
In New York City, 2,500 pothole crews are at work. Nearly 160,000 craters have been filled in the city.
A $5,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest in an altercation outside a Long Island restaurant.
An art exhibit is featuring skivvies for a good cause.
