Chess Players Ticketed For Using Park Tables
The stone chess tables are at Emerson Playground in Washington Heights which has a warning sign stating "No Adults Without Children."
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The stone chess tables are at Emerson Playground in Washington Heights which has a warning sign stating "No Adults Without Children."
Two longtime back office employees of Bernard Madoff were arrested Thursday on charges that they helped the disgraced financier dupe investors for decades by making fictitious investments.
It's home sweet home for some local senior citizens one week after returning from what they described was an "adventure of a lifetime."
Danroy and Angella Henry said they were going to the Department of Justice to ask federal prosecutors to take over the investigation.
A licensed practical nurse was stealing medical waste from nursing homes in Suffolk Coutny in search of a powerful synthetic drug used primarily by cancer patients to feed a drug addiction, authorities said Thursday.
The annual fire department chili cook-off fundraiser in Piermont was cancelled because the county health department determined it violates state regulations.
Real estate mogul Donald Trump says he's thinking about running for president, saying "everybody's ripping off the United States.''
Former Obama car czar Steven Rattner has agreed to pay $6.2 million to settle federal charges over his role in a "pay-to-play'' scandal, but says he won't be "bullied'' into accepting a harsher penalty from New York authorities.
The report released Thursday also warns of potential problems with New York's energy, drinking water and the waste and sewer systems.
GM returned to life as a public company as its stock started trading for the first time since the American manufacturing icon collapsed into bankruptcy last year.
Zachary Gibian was convicted of nearly beheading his stepfather, Scott Nager, in his home in Hauppauge, on Long Island. He is serving 25 years to life in prison.
Instead of the strains of "New York, New York," fans at Yankee Stadium will hear a different tune on Saturday.
A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly scrawling a terrorist threat against a Long Island high school on the bleachers of a park.
A new study shows that Long Island's growing immigrant population has been readily absorbed into the labor force.
Prostate cancer surgery has gotten much better at avoiding impotence and incontinence, but it can take up to a year to recover those functions after surgery. Now doctors are using lasers to make things even better.
