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The state’s attorney general said there was “nothing unusual” about Governor Andrew Cuomo sending aides to the state archives to remove documents about his record as attorney general.

The father of Queens Democratic Assemblywoman and Congressional candidate Grace Meng was arrested Tuesday for allegedly soliciting $80,000 in cash from a defendant in a tax crime and telling the individual that he would use the money to bribe prosecutors for a reduced sentence.

The man who confessed to killing a 6-year-old New York City boy who went missing in 1979 has been transferred to a detention center.

The last stretch of the High Line, the elevated historic freight rail line that’s been converted to a popular public park, has been acquired by New York City.

A seven-alarm fire at a vacant commercial building in Brooklyn has been brought under control by firefighters who battled it for 16 hours.

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Larry Celona reports: “An individual, described as a Muslim man, made the unspecified threat after Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) last week claimed Abedin’s family had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and asked for a probe to see if she is helping the Islamist organization.”

The NCAA slapped Penn State with a $60 million fine and banned the school from bowl games and post-season play for four years – but college sports’ governing body stopped short of imposing the so-called death penalty for the program that has been tarnished by child sex abuse allegations.

The suspected gunman in the Colorado shooting looked dazed when he appeared in court Monday for the first time since the shooting rampage that left 12 people dead during the premie...

Authorities on Saturday began disarming trip wires and explosive devices "set up to kill" inside the apartment of the suspect in the deadly Colorado movie theater shooting, hoping to ...

It was somber mood outside Sylvia’s Restaurant on Friday. Instead of a condolence book, the restaurant that has hosted presidents, congressman, locals and tourists alike placed a table cloth outside for people to sign their remembrances the “Soul Food Queen,” Sylvia Woods. The Harlem icon died Thursday at the age of 86, and just days shy of the restaurant’s 50th anniversary.

Sylvia Woods, the “Queen of Soul Food” and owner of Harlem’s famed Sylvia's Restaurant died Thursday afternoon. She was 86.

The MTA is expanding service on nearly 40 bus, train and commuter rail lines in part as a reversal of cuts it made to close a budget deficit in 2010, its chairman said Thursday.

The two-bedroom Harlem apartment where President Barack Obama lived while he attended Columbia University in the 1980s is for rent.

Hazy, hot and humid conditions across the region gave way to severe thunderstorms containing heavy rain, strong winds and hail.

A heat advisory remains in effect for the New York City area as heat and humidity threatens to make it feel like more than 100 or higher.  It’s hot out there. Which is why we want to...

The loss of Jeremy Lin could be a slam dunk for the Brooklyn Nets. Will Knicks fans defect? Join the conversation.

Before the clock could strike midnight, the Knicks announced it would release stand out point guard Jeremy Lin.

Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng , a human rights champion who spent much of his career clashing with the government in his native county, told WNYC that his return to China is “inevitable.”

An MTA bus driver credited with saving a 7-year-old girl who fell three stories from a Brooklyn building said he was praying he would catch the young girl when he spotted her atop an air conditioning unit.

In New York, Linsanity may be nothing more than a hoop dream. Knicks standout point guard Jeremy Lin will be headed to the Houston Rockets if New York doesn’t match the team’s three-...