Walcott Pledges No Tolerance After Another Teacher Arrested
New York City's schools chancellor is speaking out after yet another city teacher was arrested, accused of sexual abuse. 15 school employees have been arrested in just three months.
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New York City's schools chancellor is speaking out after yet another city teacher was arrested, accused of sexual abuse. 15 school employees have been arrested in just three months.
Pending a confidentiality agreement, the health information of more that 300 police department personnel who developed cancer after working at the World Trade Center site will be given to Mount Sinai Medical Center.
The majestic transit hub opened at the stroke of midnight on Feb. 1, 1913 and MTA Executive Director Joe Lhota announced on Tuesday that some grand plans are in the works for its 100th birthday.
Some New York City Council members contend the NYPD used excessive force in its handling of the weekend protests, but Bloomberg refuted the notion, saying the police know how to handle a crowd.
"The bricks are crumbling and falling. The renowned windows are rattling and splitting. The heat, the air and the plumbing is old," said Cardinal Dolan.
Saint Patrick's Day parade is a vibrant, colorful celebration of Irish culture, complete with flags, bands, Irish dancers and much more and it draws fans from all over the world.
The parade kicks off at 11 a.m. Saturday on Fifth Avenue at 44th Street and forecasters are calling for high temperatures of around 60 degrees.
New York City's top cop was grilled Thursday during a City Council committee hearing over the NYPD's controversial surveillance of Muslim communities and stop and frisks.
The city has announced a deal that preserves a historic building and creates a new school on the site of a former Greenwich Village hospital.
The bill in Congress could cut close to $1 billion in MTA funding. City Council members say that would mean many of the improvement projects that are planned would be stopped short and straphangers could end up paying the difference.
Do you believe the U.S. is an oil importing or an oil exporting nation? Across from a gas station in Hoboken on Friday, Menendez provided the answer.
Port Authority executive director Patrick Foye is very excited about the 408-foot-tall broadcast tower planned for the 104th floor of the new One World Trade Center.
Though the weather was unseasonably warm this January it was also unusually windy. Because of that, the Port Authority had to halt the erection of steel on One World Trade Center for a considerable number of days for safety reasons.
The head of the Newark FBI said Wednesday the NYPD's monitoring of Muslims in New Jersey has had a chilling effect on the feds' ability to gather counter terrorism intelligence.
New York City's official tourism agency has a new annual goal of 55 million visitors by 2015, and they're trying to reach that by appealing to young people.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg was crowing Tuesday about New York City's restaurant letter grade system.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is an avid fisherman and is hoping to get more New Yorkers hooked on the sport. Sport fishing is an $1.8 billion business in the state.
The Bloomberg administration has provided a list to Mount Sinai Medical Center of 40,000 cops who worked at the World Trade Center site after 9/11, but the public advocate says it's not enough.
Council members from all five boroughs are vowing to stop a Bloomberg administration plan to charge non-profits for garbage pickup.
A beaming detective Kevin Brennan rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, knowing he is lucky to be alive after being shot in the head while trying to arrest an armed robber less than a month ago.
Four members of the NYPD have been shot over the past two and a half months. Officer Peter Figoski was killed and the other three cops survived.
The Internal Affairs Bureau is taking a closer look at how Officer Christopher Morris, who was arrested in East New York while on duty, crashed into a pole when he was in a police car around 4:10 a.m. Tuesday.
Last week, the ratings on teachers became public knowledge. Now, the mayor is weighing in.
Politicians, business owners, and residents fuming over water bills that have gone sky high since New York City began installing automated meter readers protested on the steps of City Hall on Monday.
"We're lucky again," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said. "If it had been up an inch it would've been right into the officer's body."
