NEW YORK CITY

On Dec. 27, 2011, 15-year-old Staten Islander Amanda Cummings walked in front of a bus on Hylan Blvd, ending her young life. Police say it was deliberate, as they found a suicide note her in pocket. Six days later, she succumbed to her injuries. What can be done to make sure this does not happen again?

Incidents like the firebombing attacks that swept through Queens this past weekend are sadly all-too-familiar for many members of the city's minority religious communities, which have been plagued by periodic flare-ups of violence and vitriol ever since Sept. 11, 2001.

City officials and religious leaders met in Jamaica, Queens, to discuss the four high-profile firebombings in Queens and Nassau County.

An analysis released Tuesday by Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Parker suggesting U.S. equities will finish the year more than 8 percent lower than where they began is making those who follow the American stock market nervous. And for good reasons.

Friday there's going to be a funeral at the Azzara Funeral Home for Amanda Cummings. I will take a moment the end of this workweek to pause, silently, to send a wish to her and hers. And to reflect on the bullying that apparently caused her to take her life.

Standard & Poor’s has cut the rating on $695.4 million on bonds issued to built Citi Field for the New York Mets to negative, or BB+, one level below investment grade.

U.S. stocks fell on Friday, the last trading day of a turbulent year, with the broad S&P 500 index on track to end 2011 barely changed from 2010's closing level.

The Port Authority (PA) has initiated a hate crime investigation, after a noose was found hanging from the 64th floor of the under-construction One World Trade Center (1 WTC) in New York.

If you're not in the mood to spend the night at home watching the Times Square ball drop via television and still haven't made plans, the International Business Times has created a guide of the top 10 best party venues to celebrate New Year's Eve 2012 in NYC.

On Thursday, the 9/11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan welcomed its one millionth visitor.

Disgraced former New York congressman Anthony Weiner wanted a threesome with a female and another man, according to a woman that Weiner was texting while in office.

An affiliate of the World-Wide Group has sold a two-story commercial building at 646 Eleventh Avenue for $27.75 million, according to New York City records.

A state ethics panel has said former state Sen. Pedro Espada of the Bronx, broke the law when he hired his uncle for his Senate staff.

Sometimes, New York feels like its own country. Even as the rest of the U.S. struggles in the face of a down housing market, the New York of 2011 saw skyscrapers charge ever upwards, with pricing inevitably following. It is truly the global city, with developers, buyers and architects from around the world gathering to shape the future. Here are five of the biggest developments of 2011.

A deliveryman for King Food Chinese on Graham Avenue visited the Bushwick Houses to deliver some orders of sesame chicken and a bottle of Sprite when he was shot five times. The belligerent robbery left the deliveryman, Jin Jin Chen, 22, partially paralyzed.

Ekaterina Rybolovleva and Petra Ecclestone may both be billionaire heiresses yet the two could not be any more dissimilar.

The top aftermarket NYSE gainers Thursday were: Asia Tigers Fund, Exterran Holdings, World Fuel Services, Bank of America, Office Depot, WPX Energy, McClatchy, EnergySolutions and Inergy Midstream.

A new round of recruits graduated from the police academy on Thursday. Over 1,500 graduates attended the ceremony at Madison Square Garden, the largest class since 2005.

The man who allegedly brought a gun to the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Zuccotti Park last month is being held in jail, the New York Post reported Wednesday afternoon.

Stocks were poised for their third straight advance on Thursday after economic data pointed to continued gradual improvement in the economy.

Stock index futures rose on Thursday, putting the S&P 500 on track for its third straight day of gains as investors awaited a batch of economic data for signs the economy was slowly improving.