Area Catholic Schools Facing Closure
Nearly three dozen local Catholic schools are facing the ax, meaning almost 4,500 students may have to find new schools.
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Nearly three dozen local Catholic schools are facing the ax, meaning almost 4,500 students may have to find new schools.
After more than eight years running New York City's public schools, Chancellor Joel Klein is stepping down. And, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Klein's surprising replacement.
While not the "royal screw-up" described by Mayor Bloomberg during the primary elections, the survey revealed issues with ballot design, the type size and a lack of privacy at polling places.
Hundreds of protesters gathered on the grounds of City Hall Park Tuesday morning at a rally to protest Gov. David Paterson's veto of the 30% rent cap for low-income people living with AIDS.
A schizophrenic accused of murdering a New York psychotherapist with a meat cleaver has been ruled mentally unfit for a trial that had been close to starting.
The social realist artist Jack Levine, who skewered the rich and powerful in paintings that echoed Old Masters like Goya and El Greco stylistically, has died. He was 95.
Tinker Bell christened the new shop by sprinkling electronic pixie dust over the 20,000 square foot store -- the largest one in the Disney store franchise -- located inside the former Virgin Megastore at 1540 Broadway.
A redesign of the region's airspace by the Federal Aviation Administration which aims to alleviate congestion and long delays at area airports could mean more planes flying over Central and North Jersey.
Two new lawsuits have been filed on behalf of gay and lesbian couples in four states to challenge a 1996 law denying married gay couples federal benefits.
A lawyer for the first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial says his client didn't know about a plot to bomb two U.S. embassies in Africa.
Investigators released surveillance video of a robber pushing the clerk at a smoke shop in Park Slope behind the counter, and grabbing fistfuls of cash from the register.
Broadway theater marquees will be dimmed in memory of Jill Clayburgh, who appeared in Tony Award-winning musicals and plays in her five-decade career.
The wife of a New York mayor says she called police on him after he twice slammed a door on her fingers.
Paul Clarke adopted 3-year-old Eddie from China just before he was two. The boy was born with a cleft lip and cleft palate.
