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Cataract surgery gave 12-year-old Lillian Pravda the gift of sight, and she's since made it her mission to help other others who need eye surgery, through a foundation she started three years ago.
Seven demonstrators, including Councilman Fernando Cabrera, were charged with trespass Thursday.
It puts, for the first time, the city's 1,500 call takers and dispatchers in one place and upgrades its technology.
Jack Mannino was released from federal prison last July after serving more than 10 years for a series of bank robberies in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island during a five-month spree in 1999.
If convicted, 40-year-old Ray Lazier Lengend faces 25 years to life in prison.
If you're looking to beat the wintertime blues all you've got to do is head over to the Javits Center where the 107th annual New York Boat Show is making waves through this weekend.
Items as small as a hairpin and as big as a chunk of the Titanic's hull are among 5,000 artifacts from the world's most famous shipwreck that are to be auctioned in April, close to the 100th anniversary of the disaster.
A recent rash of distraction burglaries is continuing on Long Island. This time the two suspects allegedly targeted an Oceanside woman on her 89th birthday around noon on Wednesday.
The head of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says lawsuits filed by retirees seeking to restore free E-ZPass benefits are offensive. And he is pushing back.
Did you make a New Year's resolution to get fit? You'll want to read this.
It's not nearly so grandiose as the waterfalls under the Brooklyn Bridge, but one group wants to add light and color to a pedestrian area under the BQE in Brooklyn.
The agency is hanging up posters on subway platforms and commuter rail lines warning of service reductions and cancellations if wicked winter weather comes-a-calling.
The crook is armed with a sledgehammer and bashes through walls and ceilings of shops in the middle of renovation. Once inside, he simply takes what he wants.
Downtown pop-up space Openhouse Gallery has temporarily transformed their event space into an indoor park, providing food and faux sunshine to freezing New Yorkers during the brutal winter.
For most of us these colder temperatures could mean higher heating bills, especially this year. But there are millions of dollars in financial help available to reduce that bill.
