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Melvyn Weiss, who built the New York law firm that turned U.S. class action litigation into a multibillion-dollar business, was sentenced on Monday to 30 months in federal prison after admitting to paying ...

Saturday, May 31, 2008 Writing to Chancellor Klein Doug Avella lost his teaching job last week because he was the closest social studies teacher to the scene in the South Bronx where a group of youngsters ...

Jonathan Ayala arrives Wednesday at court, where he was sentenced for beating Officer Eric Hernandez before he was shot dead.

That might not be just a pipe dream for much longer after a city committee on Tuesday approved a cable franchising deal that will allow the provider to sell cable TV service to residents in the five boroughs.

Shifting views of public and private space through the cameras of five contemporary photographers reveal the constantly changing and often unfamiliar urban landscapes of New York City in Eminent Domain: ...

"I" On Culture by Leonard Wechsler Leonard Wechsler 23.MAY.08 The greatest of popular singers, Frank Sinatra, died ten years ago this past week.

Forget the Apple store - what about the city's first Microsoft store? That's what the new brokers at One Hanson Place say they may have on tap at the borough's premier retail space, the landmark former ...

Monday, May 19, 2008; Posted: 2:03 PM - by BWW News Desk MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB will present its annual WRITE ON THE EDGE FESTIVAL on Monday, June 2, at City Center, 131 West 55th Street, at 10:30am through ...

“Their absence is really a sad reminder of the fragility of human life”

VESTAL -- More than 2,900 Binghamton University seniors received degrees Sunday during three separate commencement ceremonies. via PressConnects.com

“I always try to treat people in a nice way but I understand people don't like traffic agents. I knew that before I got the job and I learned it even more now.”

A New York parking enforcement agent says an off-duty police officer beat him up and had him arrested after he ticketed the officer's girlfriend. via Daily India

“These were triple-net leases with annual increases, and investors want safety, security and good credit”

An Irish investment group, which market sources have pegged as Markland Holdings Ltd., has acquired 47 Citibank branches in the New York City metropolitan area for $100 million. via Commercial Property News

A New York Department of Housing, Preservation and Development official says bedbugs have been spotted in the city's subway stations. via The Post Chronicle

“I guess you got your computer back”

A tech-smart Westchester woman administered a dose of point-and-click justice to two alleged thieves who thought they had gotten away with her Macintosh laptop. via New York Post

“The mood in the hall was electric, with singing and dancing in the aisles and cheering Israel on into the future”

Israel staged its 60th-birthday bash with fireworks, air-force flyovers and a great sense of pride yesterday, but also with uncertainty about its future and doubts about prospects for peace with the ... via Combined Jewish Philanthropies

“Ewww! That's nasty . . . They've got to take these benches out of here!”

The city has bedbug educators, apparently, and one was speaking at a special Department of Housing forum on bedbugs recently, and he let the following terrifying revelation slip in front of a Post reporter: he ... via Gawker

I am 75 years old, but I look 60. My friend of the last three years and I would like to marry. via New York Daily News

“Such is the case for Vern, who is responsible for launching not only the entire field of avian hippocampal research, but also the ethological/comparative approach to brain function.”

Main Category: Neurology / Neuroscience Also Included In: Psychology / Psychiatry Article Date: 05 May 2008 The Bowling Green State University Board of Trustees reserves the title of Distinguished Research ... via MediLexicon

“Once a consumer gets to that level, the probability of them ultimately being foreclosed on is very high”

More New York City mortgage borrowers are behind in their payments than ever before. via Crain's NY Business

“If you don't know what you're potentially destroying, how can you know if it's important or not?”

The New York Botanical Garden may be best known for its orchid shows and colorful blossoms, but its researchers are about to lead a global effort to capture DNA from thousands of tree species from around the ... via Journal Gazette

“He's a friend. I didn't socialize with most of the press. But he was my age, and we were both from New York.”

Vin Scully, in his 59th season calling Dodgers baseball games, listened to almost all of the advice that Hall of Fame broadcaster Red Barber gave him over the four seasons that the two shared a radio booth ... via Los Angeles Dodgers