Daniel P. Tucker

This holiday season, squares that look like mazes or crossword puzzles are popping up on ads around New York City. They’re 2-D barcodes, a new tool businesses are using to market ...

Months of free rent! No broker’s fees! Reduced monthly rent! Last year, Manhattan was a renter’s paradise. But the market has shifted, and today, renters are no longer running the show.

Fu Ko Poon lives in a small Chinatown apartment without a working refrigerator or oven. The ceiling is yellow from water damage. For five years, the 74-year-old didn't even have electricity and had to light candles at night.

Spoorthi Sharetha, 25, had to laugh as her commute turned into an odyssey Tuesday morning after a fire near Jamaica Station delayed trains coming into Manhattan for a second day in a row.

The energy wasting New York summer tradition of drawing in hot customers by cooling the outdoors came under fire Friday from two environmental groups. Protesters stopped in front of Fifth Avenue businesses that keep their doors wide open while blasting air conditioning, saying the practice taxes the power grid and increases demand for oil, which results in tragedies like the BP oil spill in the Gulf.

Cash registers at New York City supermarkets are filled with more of your money than you might expect. One out of two city supermarkets examined in a yearlong sweep by the Department of Consumer Affairs failed inspection for overcharging and misleading customers, the agency announced today.

Cash registers at New York City supermarkets are filled with more of your money than you might expect. One out of two city supermarkets examined in a yearlong sweep by the Department of Consumer Affairs failed inspection for overcharging and misleading customers, the agency announced today.

Visitors to the Natural History Museum will now be able to get a better view of the meat-eating Allosaurus with its big fangs and sharp claws, poised to strike at a lumbering Barosaurus reared up on its hind legs in defense.

New York tourism officials are going with what works. The iconic I♥NY ad campaign is being revived with new television commercials aimed at bringing tourism dollars to New York City and the state.

Old public television video cameras, LCD Teleprompters, eight-track tapes and even a bank of Princess phones were up for auction on Monday.

Would-be clowns didn't run away to join the circus Friday morning - they took the subway to Coney Island. That’s where 17 bright-eyed performers auditioned to be clowns for Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey. One applicant had just finished a ten-year career with a ballet company.

Several hundred opponents of Arizona’s controversial new immigration law marched across the Brooklyn Bridge and rallied for immigrants’ rights in Lower Manhattan on Thursday.

Several hundred opponents of Arizona’s controversial new immigration law marched across the Brooklyn Bridge and rallied for immigrants’ rights in Lower Manhattan on Thursday.

There was hawkish rhetoric on the steps of City Hall this afternoon directed at an unlikely foe: bed bugs.

New York commemorated the 20^th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act at Lincoln Center on Monday with speakers from arts organizations, groups representing the disabled and a performance by 4 Wheel City, a duo that raps about the challenges of being wheelchair-bound.

Twenty middle-school girls pulled on chest-high waders and went fishing with old-fashioned seine nets in the East River Friday morning. They are participants in a three-week City Parks Foundation summer program called Green Girls that tries to get 11-to-13-year-old girls interested in science and the environment.

When you’re sweating like an ogre on a 95 degree summer day, Michael Anderson is keeping cool while keeping an eye on about 20,000 pounds of cheese.

Anderson is the cheese cave manager and affineur—cheese refiner or ager—at Murray’s Cheese Shop on Bleecker Street, where the tons of cheese are kept in ...

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Community gardeners are concerned about proposed new rules that would further regulate 300 gardens overseen by the city.

Gardeners like Edward Coleman, who has been growing vegetables in the East Village for 10 years, worry that the new rules will allow the city to ...