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Three Democratic state senators want an independent inspector to oversee the New York Police Department after what they called several abuses, including reports of widespread surveillance of Muslims and the crackdown on Occupy Wall Street protesters.

The storm expected to blow through New York late Friday night will only drop about 2 inches of snow before it tapers off mid-afternoon on Saturday, according to AccuWeather .

There are million-dollar - and even billion-dollar - lawsuits. But if a woman in Staten Island, NY has her way, she'll get trillions in damages .

A Muslim extremist from Brooklyn pleaded guilty yesterday to making online threats against the creators of "South Park" because the TV show depicted the prophet Mohammed as a bear.

Jim Pynn will take visitors on a romantic and fun-filled tour of the Newtown Creek sewage plant this Valentine's Day.

Cops are hunting a hit-and-run suspect who killed a pedestrian in The Bronx last year driving a car later found torched on a Kingsbridge street, police said.

To hear Christine Quinn tell it , New Yorkers are crying out for relief from unjust parking policies.

The city under Mayor Michael Bloomberg has taken some aggressive steps toward a greener future, and the Department of City Planning recently released its latest development in transforming New York into a more sustainable place to live.

"Pluto and Proserpina" by Matthias Steinl , an Imperial Court sculptor in Vienna and considered one of the greatest ivory sculptors in history.

An 81-year-old woman was struck in the face by a stray bullet Wednesday evening after a fight broke out in the courtyard of her Brooklyn building, according to police.

Hundreds of people turned out Wednesday to meet with police in the precinct where an officer shot and killed an unarmed 18-year-old last week, and many said they're fed up with what they consider a lack of respect from authorities.

Delaware State Police say a tractor trailer clipped a utility pole, brought down six poles and caused a power outage near Lincoln.

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A man was shot in the head and killed as he sat in a minivan on a Brooklyn street Wednesday, police said.

A Swedish man named Niklas Adalberth, 30, was arrested for allegedly molesting a Texas woman on Saturday evening , the New York Post reports.

This week in the Voice , out today: Graham Rayman examines Jazz Hayden's activism against stop-and-frisk, writing: "Hayden has spent the past four years irritating police officers by videotaping them as they stop and frisk people in Harlem in a program he calls "Copwatch." He often posts the videos on the Internet.

A suspected drunk driver is in custody after police say he struck an elderly man Tuesday as he crossed the street in Queens.

There aren't many places on the face of the Earth more dependent on the weather than we are in the North Country, and, like the rest of those places, there's precious little we can do about it.

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Two days after their grueling season concluded with a tense 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI, the New York Giants took a victory lap in Manhattan on Tuesday.