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The new Tappan Zee Bridge would open by 2017, be built to last more than 100 years and would include space that — one day — could be used for mass transit to cross, according to a new planning document.

New Jersey just got racy. Governor Chris Christie formally announced Tuesday that London-based Formula 1 will hold a Grand Prix car race along the New Jersey side of the Hudson in June 2013.

Defense attorneys for a New York City man charged with abducting and killing an 8-year-old boy said on Monday that his confession was coerced.

Nineteen people were evacuated Monday morning after two cars of an uptown No. 6 train derailed between Brooklyn Bridge and Canal Street, an MTA spokesman said. No one was injured.

Tunisians headed to the polls on Sunday to elect members of an assembly that will appoint a new government and write a new constitution. The election is culmination of a popular uprising that ended decades of authoritarian rule in the country, and set off a wave of similar rebellions across the Middle East.

Libya's new leadership officially declared liberation in Benghazi, the revolution's birthplace, on Sunday. It officially brought to a close the civil war that ended Moammar Gadhafi's rule over Libya and marks the start of a two-year transition to democracy.

For some people, a pumpkin just won't do when it comes to Halloween decorations. Front yards become graveyards and house fronts are turned into a macabre scenes or a party of all the Halloween regulars. View some of the Halloween decorations in the city that are designed to fright and delight.

An unidentified gunmen opened fire outside of a an elementary school in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on Friday afternoon, police officials said. One parent was killed and an 11-year-old child and another parent were injured. 

President Barack Obama announced the end of the Iraq war, declaring that the rest of U.S. troops in Iraq would be "home for the holidays."

Obama's statement put an end to months of wrangling over whether the U.S. would maintain a force in Iraq beyond 2011. He never mentioned ...

The father of a man who admitted plotting to bomb New York City subways pleaded guilty to visa fraud charges in federal court in Brooklyn on Friday.

Relatives of the victims of the 1988 Pan Am bombing said they're relieved that Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is dead. Many families waited years for the dictator's downfall, but many added they still want answers about Libyan involvement in the bombing that killed 270 people flying to New York's JFK airport.

Moammar Gadhafi, who ruled Libya with a dictatorial grip for 42 years, was killed Thursday when revolutionary forces overwhelmed his hometown, Sirte, the last major bastion of resistance two months after his regime fell. While most people in the New York region with ties to Libya welcomed the news, some had hoped Gadhafi would be captured alive.

The NYPD said that a man arrested in connection with one of a series of groping incidents in Brooklyn is no longer considered a suspect in that incident.

New York City politicians on Wednesday called for a federal probe of the NYPD's stop and frisk strategy.

New York State and city environmental officials have reached an agreement to reduce sewer overflows into area water bodies.

Republican presidential candidates hammered away at Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan during Tuesday's GOP debate. They argued it was a tax increase waiting to happen, as they aimed to curtail Cain's rise in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

The New York Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the NYPD on Tuesday to get access to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly’s schedules from the past several years.

A defense lawyer said in closing arguments Tuesday that the political operative accused of bilking Mayor Michael Bloomberg out of more than $1 million slapped together a slipshod campaign budget because he believed no one cared about the details.

Two suspects were arraigned in the fatal shooting of a high school basketball star in her Harlem apartment building in Manhattan state Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday that the Occupy Wall Street protests have no place in his bedroom.