Munch's 'The Scream' Fetches Record $119.9 Million At Sotheby's Auction
It is now the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. The buyer is remaining anonymous.
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It is now the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. The buyer is remaining anonymous.
The bill would authorize authorities to remove Canada geese from the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in June and July when the birds are molting and cannot fly.
Police are looking for a dozen teenage girls accused of attacking and robbing two 16-year-old girls on the Lexington Avenue subway line.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation sent a preliminary report last week to the Suffolk County police arson squad listing the cause as "incendiary,'' meaning arson.
New York author Harry Stein has a new book out and the title alone is provocative.
A deadlocked jury has delayed a verdict in the federal fraud case against former Bronx senator Pedro Espada. As he awaited his fate earlier Wednesday, an angry Espada went off on Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The New York State Department of Transportation is addressing safety concerns on the Bronx River Parkway three days after a horrific accident claimed the lives of seven family members, including three children.
To draw attention to her campaign, Julia Bluhm held a mock photo shoot outside the offices of the magazine in Midtown. Her online petition demanding a monthly, unaltered photo spread has drawn more than 25,000 signatures.
The Bronx Democrat compared abortion to the Holocaust, saying "Hitler was pro-choice. He chose to send the Jews to Auschwitz. That was not their choice, that was Hitler's choice."
That blur of color you just saw zipping by was in fact, according to police, a human being. A motorcycle traveling south Wednesday on the New York State Thruway in the Village of Ravena in Albany County was clocked at 166 mph, the State Police said.
Doctors said the knife penetrated his temple and went through his skull and into his brain, but narrowly missed vitals areas and a main artery. "I'm just happy that I'm alive," Loor said today.
Four children returning home from school around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday found their mother stabbed to death in the kitchen, police said. Their father was discovered dead by investigators in an upstairs bedroom.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Union Leader Jerry Laricchiuta said that the bedbug and mice problem at the Nassau County Social Services building in Uniondale on Long Island is unacceptable.
The Putnam County coroner said based on the preliminary autopsy results, it "probably" means Larchmont Police Captain Thomas Sullivan, his wife Donna and their two daughters, 17-year-old Meghan and 15-year-old Mairead, died before they were burned.
The data released on Wednesday also showed that 8,000 health care providers, about 15 percent, wrote the vast majority of those prescriptions, more than 80 percent.
