Gay Group To March In NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade
Organizers of the world's largest St. Patrick's Day Parade say they're ending a ban and allowing a gay group to march under its own banner for the first time.
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Organizers of the world's largest St. Patrick's Day Parade say they're ending a ban and allowing a gay group to march under its own banner for the first time.
The mayor announced his endorsement Wednesday at a City Hall appearance where Hochul vowed to support liberal priorities such as a higher minimum wage and the Dream Act for young immigrants.
For the first time, the Sept. 11 foundation is in charge of New York City's annual 9/11 anniversary ceremony.
Officials getting ready for a massive expansion in the city's prekindergarten enrollment were spending the last day before school starts finishing inspections of every single facility.
It took 50 minutes for an ambulance to get to an 89-year-old woman who had fallen and was bleeding in her apartment building's mail room just across the street from Gracie Mansion on July 15.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday some sites still have not passed city health and safety inspections.
The New York Post reported Monday that cops in the 63rd and 69th precincts were ordered to ignore illegal liquor sales inside three Brooklyn junkyards where open-air parties were being thrown.
New York City is installing more speed cameras near schools as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Vision Zero plan.
Ronald Singleton's death was ruled a homicide on Friday, and "physical restrain by police" was deemed a factor, along severe intoxication from the hallucinogenic drug PCP.
Mayor Bill de Blasio signed the legislation Thursday.
Mayor Bill de Blasio insisted Thursday that universal prekindergarten sites set to open next week are being thoroughly vetted for safety.
Stringer says the mayor's office is far behind schedule in submitting contracts with pre-K providers for review by the comptroller's office.
The New York City Council will hold oversight hearings next month on a police department review of its training procedures, in the wake of the chokehold death of Eric Garner in police custody on Staten Island, The Associated Press has learned.
Fifty-six percent of black respondents said they support "broken windows," while 61 percent of white New Yorkers surveyed said they back it.
Opponents of horse drawn carriages are not letting Mayor Bill de Blasio forget his campaign promise.
The City of New York has reached a tentative contract agreement with the union representing school safety agents, which includes a provision for pay equity for the predominantly female workers.
Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, said he does not support the mayor's call to bring the convention to the Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn.
Yaroslav Kolchin, a 24-year-old Russian tourist visiting the city from Moscow, is charged with reckless endangerment, criminal trespass and other charges.
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday said a "full investigation" will be launched following the death of a toddler at the home of his caregiver in the Bronx.
Mayor Bill de Blasio justified Monday giving school bus employees raises through the parceling out of city grant money to school bus companies, noting the workers' compensation had been cut by the Bloomberg administration.
De Blasio made the establishment of universal prekindergarten -- which a top aide called one of the biggest government undertakings in the city's history -- the centerpiece of his mayoral campaign a year ago.
The New York Yankees have retired four-time World Series champion manager Joe Torre's No. 6.
A dozen facilities providing services in the city's new universal pre-kindergarten program won't open on time if they don't fix serious health and safety violations.
New York state is getting $800 million as its share of a national $16.65 billion settlement with Bank of America over its role in the sale of mortgage-backed securities in the run-up to the financial crisis.
Garner's family wants federal prosecutors to take over the investigation and potential prosecution of the case, which the Staten Island District Attorney announced Tuesday was going to a grand jury.
