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New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg told the head of a taxicab fleet that he plans to " f*****g destroy " the city's taxi industry when he leaves office on January 1. Bloomberg's frustration with New York's yellow cabs and their drivers stems from their unwillingness to adopt new technology such as accepting electronic passenger hails from ... (more)

Seven months after deadly superstorm Sandy devastated the coastline of New Jersey and parts of New York, all New York City beaches opened Friday at the start of the three-day Memorial Day weekend.

It once was an accepted tactic as old as policing itself and, according to the New York Police Department, a key to the city's dramatic drop in crime: patrol officers stopping young men on the street to see if they're up to no good.

Southside Jamaica, Queens, New York came out in full force Friday morning to say final farewells to D'aja "Asia" Robinson , 14, the young girl killed when someone fired 9 rounds into the Q6 city bus she was riding home after a friend's Sweet Sixteen birthday party, Saturday, May 18th, reports NY Daily News.

The NYC Community EMS Volunteer Ambulance Corp. picked a heck of a time to get rolling.

Cops busted a pair of alleged Brooklyn drug dealers today, scoring three guns along with a cache of cocaine and heroin, authorities said.

Playful sea lions and trusty penguins are welcoming visitors back to the New York Aquarium for the first time since the Coney Island marine haven was damaged by Superstorm Sandy.

The Horace Mann School , one of New York City's most prestigious private schools, has apologized for more than three decades of sexual abuse perpetrated by some of its teachers and administrators, according to a letter posted on its website Friday.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is not giving up on supporting the passage of a gun control bill.

The morning after formally launching his mayoral bid, Anthony Weiner waded into the fray with a wide ranging radio interview revealing his stance on everything from stop-and-frisk, to the 91st Street waste transfer station, to bike lanes.

A New York company offering tours of Bronx neighborhoods has shut down after officials objected to its advertising that claimed to give visitors "a ride through a real New York City 'ghetto'," according to a statement from Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.

One clue to understanding how David Rockwell's mind works is by finding out what he collects.

Cops busted actress Amanda Bynes on Thursday night after she tossed a resin-coated water pipe out of a high-rise apartment window in midtown, police sources said.

Cops were questioning a person of interest Thursday in connection with the death of a 14-year-old Queens girl, D'aja Robsinon , who was shot to death on her way home from a Sweet 16 party last weekend .

Anthony Weiner set out to reintroduce himself to voters Thursday as he embarked on a mayoral bid after leaving Congress in a sexting scandal.

This is the case of the F-bomb that's landed New York City's mayor in federal court.

A New York City businessman was rescued this week after being held for more than a month in an abandoned warehouse, where his alleged abductors tortured him for weeks in a plot to extort his family for millions in ransom, prosecutors said.

Drowning was the most common cause of death associated with the devastating Superstorm Sandy, according to a report out Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Three men have been arrested for allegedly abducting a Woodside resident and holding him ransom in a Long Island City warehouse, the Queens District Attorney's office said Wednesday.

A company that promised sightseer tours to the Bronx that included a New York City "ghetto" has stopped the bus rides under fire from an outraged neighborhood.