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A 19-year-old has been wounded in a police-involved shooting in Brooklyn. Police say two uniformed officers responding to reports of gun shots about 12:15 a.m. Friday on Central Avenue in the Bushwick ...

Two window washers were trapped outside the 30th floor of a Times Square building for almost two hours yesterday morning, when the scaffolding basket they were in stalled.

U.S. Border Patrol on Tuesday arrested a New York City man wanted in connection with the stabbing death of his girlfriend, authorities confirmed.

One man is dead after he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed into a New York City bus.

Police say 43-year-old Derrick Walker struck the MTA bus near the corner of Richmond Terrace and Morningstar Road on Staten Island. Walker was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Police say the Thursday night accident remains under investigation. They say the bus driver remained with his vehicle and is not expected to be charged.

A real estate wunderkind who bought midtown skyscrapers like Monopoly trinkets was ordered held on $1 million bail Thursday on charges of swindling $17 million from pals and relatives.

A man was fatally shot in the chest during a store robbery Wednesday afternoon, police said.

New York City investigators wonder why neighbors waited more than a half hour before calling police after hearing the screams for help from a woman who was stabbed to death at a Queens apartment.

Design & Architecture photo: Con Edison TreeHugger is all about green roofs on buildings - even taking part in building one - and can't say enough good things about the virtues of energy efficiency and energy ...

More than 21,000 plants atop a Con Edison facility in New York City are helping reduce the building's energy costs.

Police investigate the scene of an attempted robbery in which a 37-year-old livery cab driver was shot in the face.

The city is asking public school principals to consider giving math tests to kindergartners, a proposal that comes amid debate over the growing use of standardized tests nationwide.

The experiment could involve tests as long as 90 minutes and change reading assessments for kindergartners through second-graders in the nation's biggest school system, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration has embraced testing. The approach dismays some parents and educators who see it as mechanizing education.

A one-time hotshot manager and investor in the Manhattan real estate market was arrested Wednesday on charges he cheated banks, family members and other victims out of more than $17 million.

An 18-year-old woman was dragged off a Queens street into a dark driveway, where she was raped and robbed at gunpoint early Monday, police said.

PALISADES - Scientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are warning that the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan is built atop the intersection of two active seismic faults ...

New York City's oldest standing bridge, closed since the 1970s, is a step closer to reopening.

An ex-con was found shot to death execution-style on the roof of a Brooklyn apartment building early Saturday, police said.

The death of a Harlem woman due to testify in two criminal cases has been ruled an accident, authorities said Monday.

A window worker has died after falling out of a Manhattan building. Police say the body of the 49-year-old contractor was found Tuesday afternoon outside the building in Greenwich Village.

PATH service from Hoboken to Manhattan is suspended, the Star-Ledger is reporting on its Web site, citing a track problem.

Two New Yorkers have pleaded guilty to importing from China tens of thousands of tubes of tainted toothpaste, some of which contained microorganisms and a poison used in antifreeze.