I was cautiously optimistic to see the unemployment figures dropping to 8.6 percent, concerned that only 7 percent of those who lost and regained jobs during the financial mess are maintaining their previous financial position and despair at the impact decaying infrastructure, like the New York City L Train, has on small businesses and our chances of economic recovery.
The Bronx Bombers considered instead being the Manhattan Bombers in 1915, according to a letter from that year that shows that the team's then-owners looked at a site in Times Square for Yankee Stadium.
The troubled Cooper Square Hotel in Manhattan's East Village has sold for $67.5 million, according to New York City records.
Unemployment is down, but so is the financial position of job-finders. The New York City L train is shut too many weekends for piecemeal repairs, while desperately needed infrastructure needs go unmet. It's hurting small Williamsburg shops--and speaks to the proper role of government.
The original Manhattan is surging back to life ten years after the terror attacks of 9/11, and trends are showing the square-mile tip of the island south of Chambers Street is quickly surpassing its past glory.
A Bronx man was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the murder of an East Harlem resident and native of Italy, Rita Morelli, 36.
Detective Gescard Isnora, who allegedly triggered the incident that let to the shooting and killing of Sean Bell, has been recommended for firing by the commissioner who handled the review, unnamed sources.
Three City Council members have introduced a resolution formalizing support for Occupy Wall Street and its message condemning economic inequality.
Brookfield Asset Management and tenants of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village are making a bid to take over the massive apartment complex of over 11,000 units on Manhattan's east side.
Midtown Manhattan is expected to be filled with horrendous traffic as President Obama's trip to New York coincides with the star-studded annual Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center.
Police are searching for a man wanted for sexually abusing two 12-year-old girls from the Elmhurst section of Queens.
The Malkin family, the New York landlords who own the Empire State Building, plan to file to become a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) in around three months, it said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
The aggrieved students of New York City's public university system took to the streets of Manhattan Monday evening to protest tuition hikes many of them say will cripple their ability to afford to earn a college degree.
Jennifer Lopez has been sued by Bronx-based graffiti artists who say their artwork was used without permission in her Fiat commercial.
Two brave Bronx firefighters came to the rescue of a teenage girl on Saturday after a mugger robbed the girl of a gold chain.
An ex-con was taken into custody after robbing two elderly men in the Stuyvesant Town section of Manhattan.
A woman from the Brownsville section of Brooklyn was allegedly stabbed by her own son on Sunday in front of her granddaughter, 5, and grandson, 1.
Stocks extended their gains on Monday, with the S&P and Nasdaq rising 3 percent on hopes that fresh proposals may emerge out of Europe to help solve the region's debt crisis.
In the Great Kills section of Staten Island a new neighborhood bar, Dugout Pub South, has become a big hit. It isn't just the 15 flat-screen televisions, the local bands that frequently play at the bar, or the large menu of burgers and wings, but a new game that lets you catch your own lobster for dinner that has attracted the attention of patrons and Staten Islanders.
A Staten Island family has been awarded $1 million after learning that their deceased son's brain was on display at the Staten Island Mortuary.
Stocks posted seven straight sessions of losses on Friday, ending the worst week in two months, as the lack of a credible solution to Europe's debt crisis kept investors away from risky assets.
Stocks posted seven straight sessions of losses on Friday, ending the worst week in two months, as the lack of a credible solution to Europe's debt crisis kept investors away from risky assets.
