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When asked if he was dipping a toe back into politics during his first radio interview since he resigned from office, former Congressman Anthony Weiner told WNYC last month that h...

By early evening, the only trace of the three-alarm fire at South Street Seaport that sent up billowing clouds of smoke Saturday afternoon was the lingering smoky smell.

The U.S. Olympic Committee and designer Ralph Lauren have agreed that Team USA’s outfits for the opening and closing ceremonies will be made in America for the 2014 Winter Games.

The likely contenders to replace Michael Bloomberg as mayor of New York began releasing fund raising numbers for the six-month filing period that ended Wednesday.

The mother of one of three children who died inside the cabin of a yacht that capsized on the Fourth of July believed it was the safest place for her daughter.

The crooked cop at the center of the Bronx ticket-fixing scandal tried to hire a hit man to kill a witness in his criminal case, prosecutors said.

A Cookie Monster spoof of pop starlet Carley Rae Jepsen’s hit “Call Me Maybe” has raked up more than 1.5 million page views since it was first posted on YouTube Wednesday.

It's official. The commissioners of NYC Board of Elections have certified all the results from the June 26 primary, including naming incumbent Congressman Charles Rangel the winner of the Democratic primary for the 13th Congressional District.

A company called Mortgage Resolution Partners wants local governments to use eminent domain to help homeowners drowning in debt.

An appeals court says New York City cannot scare smokers by requiring grotesque images at stores that sell cigarettes.

A former campaign treasurer for New York City Comptroller John Liu will get her day in court, almost a year after she was arrested.

A teen girl jumped from a chair lift in Seaside Heights last weekend to avoid getting struck by lightening during a fast-moving storm.

A rally was held in New York City protesting Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed crackdown on super-sized, sugary drinks. Not to be outdone, the Bloomberg administration released a 22-page press release of statements from people who support his proposal.

FBI divers are helping Long Island police officials investigating the July Fourth capsizing of a yacht that sank, killing three children.

A documentarian who chronicled long-term unemployment on Long Island for a new HBO documentary said he was “shocked” to find the new poor living in the suburbs once designed to foster middle-class lifestyles.

College Management, which has three buildings in the Bronx, earned the distinction of the city’s worst landlord, raking up 724 infractions, according to Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who issued the report.

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The city’s parks commissioner dismissed reports that racial and economic tensions were the cause of the recent violence at the newly opened McCarren Park Pool in Williamsburg.

The mother of one of the three children who died when a yacht capsized off of Long Island earlier this week defended the 12-year old’s father who was responsible for taking the girl on the fatal Fourth of July boat ride.

A rite of passage for many teens is the summer job. New York City is helping youths in the city with this milestone through employment and learning programs.