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In fact, a recent study of nutritional habits around the USA showed that people in the Big Apple drink nearly seven times as much coffee as people who live in other major cities.A Other cities max out on other consumables.A For example, Philadelphians eat about five times as many soft-pretzels as those from other towns.

Twenty-six bus operations that transported more than 1,800 passengers a day along Interstate 95 between New York and Florida have been closed for safety violations in what federal officials say is the government's largest single safety crackdown of the motor coach industry in at least a decade.

Commuters at Penn Station are sweating through the transit hub as Amtrak works to upgrade its 30-year-old heating and cooling system, but officials promise it will cool down in a few days.

New Yorkers who don't like stop-and-frisk can go live in Philadelphia and Washington D.C. and see how they like the murder rates there! This is what a pretty braggy Mike Bloomberg said yesterday in response to a question from the Voice about the logic behind his repeated defense of the NYPD's controversial stop-and-frisk policy -- that it saves ... (more)

The days when tulips were bought and sold as gold are conjured in the new musical Tulipomania: The Musical, with book, music and lyrics by Barrymore Award winner Michael Ogborn, opening May 30 in a world-premiere staging by Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia.

Kenny Plotnick, vice president of news at WABC New York, is stepping down. He started at WABC in 1987.

Jennifer Laxson's tax bill on her Graduate Hospital house went from $453 in 2009 to $10,563 now.

The Weeks Gallery at Jamestown Community College will hold an ArtParty for the opening of Barbara Proud's "First Comes Love: Radical Spirits, Civil Rights, and the Sexual Evolution" exhibition on June 15.

According to Amtrak, service between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia has been suspended temporarily while crews try to repair problems with overhead wires north of Baltimore.

You Think You Can Dance" is back for its 9th season and I already know there's some format changes and two winners, a male and a female dancer.

Nasdaq Chief Executive Bob Greifeld pressed ahead with Facebook's initial public offering despite signs that the new software Nasdaq was using to launch the much-hyped stock sale still had bugs, market veterans said.

Mayor Bloomberg angrily vowed yesterday that he won't allow New York to turn into Philadelphia, where the murder rate jumped after officials settled a stop-and-frisk lawsuit and agreed to a monitoring program.

Police haveA arrested a 51-year-old New Jersey man who earlier implicated himself in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz, a case that baffled New York City for decades, sparked a nationwide campaign on behalf of missing children and helped make Patz the first child whose picture was posted on the side of a milk carton.

Monsignor William Lynn, the highest ranking Catholic official to be criminally tried for covering up child sex abuse by priests, faced fierce questioning in a Philadelphia courtroom on Thursday.

In this Oct. 24, 2010 file photo, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam performs during the Bridge School Benefit concert in Mountain View, Calif.

The worst-case scenario in the world of volunteer fire service became reality Monday morning when there were no Evans Mills volunteers available to respond to a house fire in their district.

ABSTRACT: THE ART WORLD about the Barnes Foundation's new home. After years of controversy and litigation, the art collection of Alfred C. Barnes has just reopened in a new building in downtown Philadelphia.

Though Charlie Levin entered the world five weeks early and showed no obvious signs of trouble at birth, his parents, Ken and Merredith, weren't convinced everything was normal.

Alan Pinto is a doctor by trade, but he has a few tricks up his sleeve that make him a great chef.

There is a treasure tucked away behind that grand facade of the state Education Building in Albany.