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Ethan Hawke said most television shows and movies today lack depth -- and that “people mock” actors if they attempt to use the discipline as a form of self expression.

Jay S. Fishman, the chief executive officer of the insurance giant Travelers, will succeed John Vogelstein, who has held the post since 2008. Robert I. Lipp, who has been on the ...

Sarah Jessica Parker said she is anxious about hosting Barack Obama and Michelle Obama for a swank, star-studded fundraiser in her West Village brownstone on Thursday evening.

A Queens preacher who has one of the largest congregations in the city is defending the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practice — despite a poll released Thursday that shows a slight majority of New Yorkers oppose the controversial program.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the city's plan on Wednesday not to remove the Sheridan Expressway in the Bronx, saying tearing it down would create a "dramatic" increase in traffic in the neighborhood.

An NYPD officer has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges in the shooting earlier this year of an unarmed suspect in his Bronx home.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the hoax about a yacht explosion off of central New Jersey was a massive waste of resources — and has offered to help authorities in the state to find out who was responsible.

Gov. Chris Christie is asking his cabinet members to prepare contingency plans in case he needs to shut down New Jersey's government if he can't reach an agreement on a new budget.

Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein touted the big bank’s small business program on Tuesday — less than a week after appearing as a prize government witness in the insider trading trial of a former Goldman board member Rajat Gupta.

An NYPD officer has been indicted in the shooting death of an unarmed man inside his Bronx home earlier this year, sources told WNYC.

To take vitamin supplements or not has been a longstanding issue of debate.

New York City is considering privatizing its parking meters.

The confessed killer of schoolboy Etan Patz grew up on a farm in Puerto Rico with no electricity or running water along with his 11 brothers and sisters, according to a New York Times article that explores the turbulent life of the accused murderer.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Sunday said that  “stop-and-frisk” needs to be “amended, not ended.” That was the message he took with him when he stepped into a black church in one of New...

Federal officials say a health program for first responders and New Yorkers stricken by toxic dust unleashed in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center should be expanded to include 50 types of cancer.

Triple Crown hopeful I'll Have Another is retiring from racing due to a tendon injury. The thoroughbred won the Kentucky and Preakness stakes this year.

A New York judge is letting a lawsuit proceed against city police officers in the arrest of 700 "Occupy Wall Street" protesters last year as they marched across the the Brooklyn Bridge.

A prize government witness, Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein, has resumed testifying at the New York insider trading trial of a former Goldman board member.

Sex abuse was reportedly covered up at the elite private school Horace Mann — whose alums include Eliot Spitzer and James Murdoch, according to a shocking new report.

New York Police Department detectives are in Maple Shade, N.J., searching the home of the man charged with the murder of a 6-year old who disappeared in 1979.