Stephen Nessen

While city officials have backed down from restricting the number of Uber drivers in the city for now, many outer-borough residents continue clamoring for access to Uber.

The block has become a magnet for protests and memorials — but relations with the police have hardly improved.

Lower Manhattan will swirl with confetti as thousands attend a parade celebrating the win by U.S. women's soccer team at the Women's World Cup.

As a growing number of Latinos turn from Catholicism to Evangelicalism — or no religion — can the pope from Latin America turn the tide?

Now that cars are out, park-goers are looking for the city to crack down on a new bogeyman: cyclists.

At today's NYPD graduation ceremony, recent graduates took off their hats and showed WNYC what was inside.

While Greece's financial future remains fluid, one thing is clear: the largest overseas Greek community in Astoria, Queens, is worried.

Sections of Central Park are permanently closed to traffic. But that hasn't stopped some people from grumbling.

From Times Square to the Stonewall Inn, here's a look at how people in the city are reacting to the Supreme Court decision granting marriage rights to same-sex couples in all 50 states.

For the first time in more than four decades, pedestrians can now walk through the World Trade Center site at Greenwich and Fulton Streets.

New York City has become the second city in the country to recognize the Lunar New Year as an official school holiday. The change will go into effect next year, the year of the monkey.

One ton of ivory sculptures and ivory trinkets traveled up an industrial conveyor belt and into a rock crusher in Times Square to send a message to illegal poachers.

Water filters reduce chlorine. If you want to be sure to get the lead out, you need to take a closer look.

A major marijuana conference and business expo at the Javits Center attracts investors, lawyers ... and a single mom from Long Island. 

Every year, 27 billion gallons of untreated raw sewage spews into our waterways. The city will have to do something about that.

Nobody wanted a filtration plant in New York City, certainly not in their backyard. Then it cost way more than expected.

The appellate judges said the bar is high to unseal information about Garner's case.

The three-judge panel is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday morning in Brooklyn.

It's one of the enduring conundrums of modern life: Finding the greenest way to clean dishes. Should we throw them in the dishwasher or do them by hand?   

Master puppet builder Matthew Brooks, who has created puppets for Muppet movies, Sesame Street,  and Crank Yankers, lost everything when his building in the East Village was destroyed.