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This year, some of those lives are going to be on extraordinary display in the political arena.

Bikes arrive at East 11th Street and First Avenue ahead of the Monday launch for the Citi Bike share program.

If you are a New Yorker, global warming could seriously damage your health. The sweltering summer temperatures of the Big Apple are likely to go on rising through the next six decades, and deaths from heatstroke and other forms of hyperthermia could increase.

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is still smarting from the court rebuke he got in March for trying to prohibit sales of "supersized" sodas.

Residents from Osbaldwick , Murton and Holtby claimed there were numerous problems in and around the Osbaldwick site of antisocial behaviour, theft, piles of rubbish, the burning of items, the blocking of a public footpath and road accidents caused by tethered horses escaping.

New Yorkers and other US beer drinkers are set to get a taste of Yorkshire ale after an expanding brewing business landed its first transatlantic order.

Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha , which he co-wrote with its star Greta Gerwig, is the kind of movie that could become a cult classic.

With the holiday weekend fast approaching, New Yorkers are getting ready to step off of the concrete and into the sand.

New Yorkers who use an accommodation business to rent apartment space to tourists are in violation of a city law protecting expensive hotels and, according to a recent court ruling, will be hit with major fines if they continue the practice.

Floodwaters from Superstorm Sandy destroyed the first floor of this house in Staten Island, New York.

Anothny Weiner, NYC's muppet former congressman, and as we reported yesterday, the man who following his disgraceful fall from grace announced his mayoral campaign on YouTube, continues to be the gift that keeps on giving... if mostly naked pictures of his anatomy to various women.

People shook his hand outside a Harlem subway station and asked him about issues ranging from police tactics to education and services for the mentally ill.

'He had no pulse': How a New Yorker saved the life of a Toronto lawyer who went into cardiac arrest in NYC Jason Kroft, a partner at top Toronto law firm Stikeman Elliott, had only been in New York for a few hours last Thanskgiving when his heart stopped just a few blocks short of Rockefeller Centre.

Remember the old days where hotel art usually consisted of a bland landscape painting that was reproduced a hundred times over and hung in the same spot in every guest room? Thankfully, over the past few years, hotels have been paying close attention to the artworks they hang in their rooms and public spaces--choosing original art instead and even ... (more)

The nation's big cities are riding out the first years of the post-downturn era with plenty of company - boosting their population via a youth movement.s. The nation's big cities are riding out the first years of the post-downturn era with plenty of company - boosting their population via a youth movement.

SINCE the beginning of April, there have been 85 serious collisions on North Yorkshire's roads, including eight deaths.

More New Yorkers find themselves addicted to doctor-prescribed narcotics, and increasingly the city is treating the problem as a public health crisis.

Members of the public in both New York City and Pennsylvania will soon get to see The New York Public Library 's original copy of the Bill of Rights, which will be exhibited for the first time in decades.

Ask five people who have been in New York City for more than a decade what makes someone a "real" New Yorker and you'll get five different answers: if you're born here; seven years in the city; 10 years; when you're no longer fazed by celebrity sightings; when a bagel guy knows how you like your coffee and uses the perfect amount of cream cheese.