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A woman charged with punching a flight attendant who tried to stop her from smoking on a plane faces new allegations of drug use and assault.

By Edith Honan

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced a bill on Tuesday that would change the city's term-limits law and allow him to seek four more years in office to help New York cope with the sweeping economic crisis.

Bloomberg, a former Wall Street trader and self-made billionaire, is seeking a permanent change in the law to raise the limits to three four-year terms from two for mayor, the 51-member City Council and other elected officials.

Bloomberg says his Wall Street experience would be invaluable when the city is bracing for lean times. Tens of thousands of high-paying financial jobs are being lost and the impact is likely to spread through many layers of the city economy.

The art called a "Photo Op with Sarah Palin" features cardboard cutouts of Palin and her daughter Piper with the Alaska governor kneeling behind a slain caribou.

The Mets were deprived of a touching final day at Shea, so here's a nice Lifetime movie framing device from the Daily News : Chris McGonigle, a carpenter in Queens, had taken a jar of dirt from the pitcher's ...

The Brooklyn - Queens Expressway has been partially reopened after a truck fire closed it in both directions on Monday afternoon in Brooklyn.

A man has been taken to a hospital after being struck by a subway train in Queens.

When authors Rachel Cohn and David Levithan decided to collaborate on the novel "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist," about two teenagers who meet and fall in love over the course of a single night in the New ...

Two hours after Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced he would seek a third term if city law was changed, a man sporting shiny sunglasses and a "Heil Bloomberg" cardboard sign marched in front of City Hall.

Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard is helping make New York City a little greener.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday that he's pushing for changes that would allow him to seek a third term, saying he wants to handle unfinished city business.

The common denominator with many members of the U.S. House of Representatives who voted against the first financial-bailout bill last week was they're facing tough re-election races.

The Freedom Tower, centerpiece of the plan to rebuild Manhattan's World Trade Center, will not be completed until 2013, well past the original target date of 2009, the landowning agency for the site said on ...

After 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown was discovered emaciated and beaten to death despite warning signs of her abuse, sweeping reforms were made to New York's child welfare agency. Millions were invested, caseworkers were added and police presence beefed up.

But the legal system that deals with troubled families remains stagnant in the two years since Nixzmary's death, choked with a backlog of hundreds of cases that forces children around the state to languish in foster care.

'You have a certain exigency to cases involving children,' Judge Ann Pfau, chief administrative judge for New York state courts. 'You want to be able to resolve problems as quickly as possible, you just want stability for the child. Six months in criminal court case is different from six months in a family court case. Six months is a very long time for a child. We think about it all the time.'

"Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" appears to have everything going against it.

A vintage sailboat sails past the World War II aircraft carrier USS Intrepid as it makes its way across the New York Harbor October 2, 2008.

As neon lights bathe the dance floor of the darkened nightclub, a group of young women from Latin America sit at tables, sipping water or soda and waiting for men to approach and hand them cash.

For $2, the women will dance one song. For $10, they will dance a set. Forty dollars buys an hour of their time.

The scene plays out in immigrant neighborhoods across New York City, providing a key source of employment for immigrant women and a haven for men seeking to stave off the loneliness of being far from home. It is a perfectly legal form of entertainment _ there is no stripping but plenty of hand-holding.

Gov. David Paterson is proposing that New York join a growing number of states in leasing assets to private contractors to trim costs and provide long-term, steady revenue.

New York City Mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg will have to answer allegations of pregnancy bias at the company he owns while he seeks a third term.

New York is nothing to fear. For better or worse, the city bears little resemblance to the crime-laden hovel so vivid in the imaginations of those who remember 1970s New York. It's not all gritty concrete and impersonal skyscrapers.

Lt. Michael W. Pigott was found at a former airfield in Brooklyn, dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said.