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Anthony D. Weiner, once a rising star of New York politics whose career cratered over revelations of his sexually explicit life online, announced an improbable bid on Wednesday for the job he has long coveted: mayor.

The Museum of the City of New York today announced a star-studded line-up of musicians and writers for a special concert to benefit the upcoming exhibition Folk City.

Setting the stage as the perfect preshow for a Broadway matinee, Madame Tussauds New York is offering theatergoers free admission to the wax attraction for kids when accompanied by a full-paying adult and presentation of a Broadway show ticket.

Christian Bale was nearly unrecognizable when he landed at Los Angeles Intl. Airport on Sunday sporting a beard and a bald head, US Weekly reports.

The president of a New York police union defended an officer who accidentally killed a Hofstra University student during a standoff with an armed intruder, saying Tuesday the only person responsible for the woman's death was the gunman who held her hostage.

The following information was provided by the Cranford Police Department. Arrests do not indicate convictions.

Governor Andrew Cuomo Tuesday announced that new information has been added to the state's comprehensive new data transparency website that will enable New Yorkers to easily find farmers' markets, wineries, breweries, and distilleries near their homes.

A search for places to stay in New York City via Airbnb returns plenty of results, despite the practice of short-term rentals being found to be illegal under city and state law.

The contemporary master of romance Nicholas Sparks delivers his latest to the big screen with "Safe Haven," now available on Blu-ray/DVD. Julianne Hough plays Katie, a young woman on the run.

The site where Mark Carson was shot on West 8th Street, New York. Police say the killing was a hate crime.

The Jerusalem Municipality declared on Monday that it would not allow open or latent advertising for cigarettes or other tobacco products by sponsors of the famed racing car competition Formula 1 that is scheduled to take place in capital on June 13 and 14.

A New York Police Department detective told a federal judge that he's seen no evidence that one of his informants brought up the subject of jihad as a way to bait Muslims into making incriminating remarks.

Allstate Insurance Company is seeking to recover $3.8 million against six physicians and five medical professional corporations in its third insurance fraud lawsuit of 2013.

Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered to remember Mark Carson , a 32-year-old gay Brooklyn man who was shot and killed in New York's Greenwich Village Friday in the fifth hate crime to plague the city this month.

Thousands of Central New Yorkers will vote Tuesday on their school budgets for 2013-14. We've created two databases that let you compare your districts budget and spending to other districts in Central New York and across the state.

Like most sentient Americans, NBC is a huge Michael J. Fox fan, and the network demonstrated as much last summer when it outmaneuvered its broadcast competition by way of a risky and unprecedented leap of faith.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is hoping to relieve the debt burden of millions of students who have borrowed to pay for their education -- especially New Yorkers, who average nearly $30,000 in student debt.

A man tries to cool himself with a bottle of water during the a heatwave in New York City.

Traffic in southwest Connecticut could be a mess for as much as a week until service is restored to the commuter rail line affected by a derailment that injured scores of passengers, Gov.

Exhilarating. Grand. Generous. None of those are words anybody would have previously associated with movies by Noah Baumbach, whose acerbic, sometimes brutal humor could verge straight into meanness in films like The Squid and the Whale , Margot at the Wedding and especially the recent Greenberg , which had me accusing Baumbach of being "nearly as ... (more)