MTA Targets Artist Who Uses MetroCards As Canvas
A local artist came up with a creative way to turn old MetroCards into high-end souvenirs, but the MTA is taking a swipe at her budding business.
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A local artist came up with a creative way to turn old MetroCards into high-end souvenirs, but the MTA is taking a swipe at her budding business.
Sidney Lumet, the award-winning director of such acclaimed films as "Network," "Serpico," "Dog Day Afternoon" and "12 Angry Men," has died. He was 86.
City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe said Macdonald Park in Forest Hills took a great deal of damage. "It looked like a war had been fought there. All of these beautiful trees had been blown apart in their crowns and were lying all over the place."
Rudin Management will turn the historic medical center into a walk-in emergency facility and hundreds of luxury apartments. The new facility will be operated by the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System.
Aftab Ali Khan would plead guilty to lying to investigators. According to a published report, he'd be sentenced to time served, and be deported to Pakistan.
Amtrak has cleared equipment that closed one of the two rail tunnels leading in and out of New York City.
According to published reports, the Bloomberg administration confirmed it withdrew the plan following City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's "strong case against it."
Ayala said she was so busy working on her taxes she didn't notice when her 20-month-old son slipped out the front door, police allege.
The NYPD and 70 other law enforcement agencies across our region will test their ability to detect radiological materials and prevent an attack orchestrated by four fictional terror cells.
Two New York lawmakers say the National Transportation Safety Board will commence a broad investigation of the low-cost tour bus industry.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the new state budget unfairly singles out the city and makes it impossible to prevent layoff and cuts in services.
A high school art teacher was arrested and charged with making terrorist threats on Friday, accused of threatening to bring a gun to school – and going on a Columbine-style massacre.
In a shocking case of mistaken delivery, a local dentist received a UPS box filled with marijuana - and he has no idea how it happened.
Union Square was the home for New York City's sixth annual celebration of International Pillow Fight Day on Saturday.
The ongoing disaster in Japan has renewed efforts by activists to shut down the Indian Point Nuclear Complex. Activists will gather at Union Square on Saturday to call for the plant to be shut down.
Cricket fans came out in the wee hours of the morning to catch their cricket heroes compete in the final of the World Cup.
Parents in Bellport organized a petition drive pushing to get the dump permanently closed and cleaned up.
The New York City Department of Transportation started using 12 new electric screeds to fix potholes, paid for with $1.14 million in federal funds.
The Bronx Zoo shut down its reptile house which houses turtles, lizards and snakes because an adolescent Egyptian cobra had slithered out of it's enclosure.
Local lawmakers announced plans on Sunday to challenge the 2010 Federal Census count of New York City.
A couple that met in a Macy's in New York City two years ago and became engaged in the same store last year was married Sunday night in the department store.
Urban radio and TV personality DJ Megatron was shot to death in New York City early Sunday morning near his Staten Island home.
Police are seeking suspects in a series of bodega robberies in the Highbridge and East Concourse sections of the Bronx.
The Reptile House at the Bronx Zoo was closed Saturday after an adolescent Egyptian cobra went missing from an off-exhibit enclosure.
A new clock - well, an old clock, really - has been installed on the lower level of Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal.
