Share + Nov 22, 2009 7:48 am US/Eastern A subway passenger was stabbed to death in front of horrified riders in a dispute with another man over a seat in the car early Saturday morning in midtown Manhattan, police said.

Miami was a hotbed for construction during the eight-year tenure of Mayor Manny Diaz.

Christiea TMs announced the auction Magnificent Tiffany featuring Property from the Gluck Collection will be held as part of its 20th-Century Decorative Art & Design sales on December 8, 2009.

Nassau County police have charged Charles Van Cleave, 51, of 720 Lenox Ave., Manhattan, with five counts of fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, three counts of fourth-degree grand larceny and two counts each of second-degree and third-degree identity theft.

Service Smoked Fish Corp. of Brooklyn, NY, is recalling specific "Use-By" dates and lot codes of Brooklyn's BEST brand SMOKED NOVA SALMON because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with ...

New York City Average rent for retail space in high-traffic Manhattan areas, including Fifth Avenue, Meatpacking, SoHo and Times Square, have increased despite the down economy, according to the Fall Retail Report released by the Real Estate Board of New York .

By TOM HAYS Updated: November 19, 2009, 3:56 PM / New York juries are often loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists.

Thirty-five young children were safely evacuated from a burning school bus by workers at New York City's Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

For most of his years, Richie Kane struggled through a living hell of physical and sexual abuse, alcoholism and membership in one of the most notorious gangs in the country.

Two men have been indicted on hate crime charges in an assault on a transgender woman in one of New York City's most diverse neighborhoods.

An ex-con packing heat was shot and killed Wednesday on Staten Island , law enforcement sources said.

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Jeremiah Miller calls the time Barack Obama spent in New York "the lost years," because that period from 1981 to 1985 is not as well-known as his roots in Hawaii or his recent years in Chicago.

A New York pastor accused of using church funds to pay for plastic surgery has been ordered to serve five years probation.

The American Cancer Society says providers offering free screenings in Manhattan, Brooklyn, West Queens, and Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties project they'll perform nearly 15,000 fewer mammograms this fiscal year than last year.

New York City, the center of the nation's information industry, has lost nearly 60,000 communications jobs since 2000, including in publishing and broadcasting, the comptroller's office said Wednesday.

Artist Jeanne-Claude, right, who created the 2005 installation in Central Park called "The Gates" with her husband Christo, center, has died.

Indie-rock producer Jacquire King had long been an admirer of Norah Jones' smoky, seductive voice, but the man behind acclaimed albums from Kings of Leon to Tom Waits never thought the two would ever inhabit the same musical orbit, let alone work together on a CD.

Water has been restored to all customers that were affected by a water main break on Staten Island this morning.

On the eve of a high-level international meeting on road safety in Moscow, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York announced a donation of $125 million to organizations that promote road safety in a group of low- and middle-income countries that represent half of all yearly traffic deaths.