Senate Temporarily Restores New York City's Rent Control Law
All 2.5 million people living in 1 million rent controlled apartments will be protected from any rent hikes or eviction landlords might have sought at least until Monday.
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All 2.5 million people living in 1 million rent controlled apartments will be protected from any rent hikes or eviction landlords might have sought at least until Monday.
A spokesperson for the Department of Sanitation confirmed there is an active strike and its workers will continue to let the garbage pile grow until the doormen get a contract or the Department of Health orders the agency to clean up the mess.
Lauren Spierer's parents thanked police and volunteers who are combing the main road leading into Bloomington, Indiana looking for any traces that might lead them to their daughter.
It was a vicious attack in broad daylight in one of the city's safest neighborhoods. An 82-year-old man, an acclaimed industrial designer, was mugged near Central Park has died of his injuries.
Police say Milton Levine was crossing Nostrand Avenue and Avenue Y in Sheepshead Bay when he was hit by a Nissan Pathfinder, whose driver did not stop. The impact then sent the man in the path of another car.
Mario Romain, a football alum, is part of a group suing to get the school a regulation field. He says it is amazing that the renovations could lead to the same mistake.
Peter Wojcik was in shock that anyone would deliberately do this – his beloved dogs, Baby and Birdie, were covered in cuts and bruises, with the animals and his backyard splattered with paint.
After working all his life as a wallpaper hanger, Weiss' passion for inventing things finally paid off with a big hit -- a word game called "Dabble."
Ortiz, the only Hispanic member on the college's softball team, says school officials overreacted to postings on Facebook and labeled her a 'thug."
The legislative session is still set for Albany to end on Monday. However, it could be extended for days or a week or even longer as issues such as rent control and property taxes remain unresolved.
Thursday night, the Malverne Board of Education named Aalique Grahame as valedictorian for the class of 2011.
NYPL President Paul LeClerc said that school children would be hurt the most by the proposed cuts.
It could be a historic vote at the Valley Stream Target. If the 260 workers approve a vote to unionize the store. Voting ends at about 11:30 p.m. with results expected to be announced by 1a.m. Saturday.
New York lawmakers have voted to ban smoking on the upstate and Long Island platforms of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's commuter trains to protect other passengers from secondhand smoke.
This was a bad week to a be drug dealer in New York City, according to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
