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The man who barricaded himself inside an apartment near the Flatiron building after allegedly threatening window workers has been arrested, sources confirmed to WNYC.

WITH PHOTOS & VIDEO: A water main break flooded five blocks in the Bronx with waist-deep water in some areas on Wednesday morning — causing transit  delays and flooding businesses a...

Cancer-stricken Ground Zero responders and residents will not be eligible to receive benefits under the federal Zadroga bill.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman joined the court challenge against the Defense of Marriage Act — known as DOMA — that denies married gay couples federal benefits.

A puppy was rescued from Jamaica Bay on Monday when officers spotted the struggling pooch treading water two miles from shore.

The licenses of eight poor-performing charter and tour bus companies have been suspended by the Cuomo administration over safety concerns.

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz was fined $20,000 for bringing his wife along on official foreign trips without paying for her expenses, the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board announced Monday.

Same-sex marriage opponents are suing to overturn the law in New York a day after gay weddings began in the state. The suit, filed by the evangelical Christian lobby group New Yorker...

City health officials are telling New Yorkers to stay out of some area waterways after the sewage spill at a Harlem wastewater treatment plant last week.

The hotel housekeeper who accused ex-International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault has broken her silence.

Hundreds of same-sex couples signed up to be married in New York on Sunday — the first day gay marriage is legal in the state. And none of the 823 couples who entered a lottery to get...

The father of admitted terrorist Najibullah Zazi was convicted on Friday of trying to cover up his son's plans to bomb the New York City subway.

Pumps are now working at the Harlem wastewater treatment plant that has spilled millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Hudson River, officials said. They're hopeful the discharges will end around 6 p.m. Friday.

Temperature reached 104 degrees in Central Park on Friday but sweltering humidity made it feel like 116 as a blistering heat wave swept across the Northeast, according to the National Weather Service.

Chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transit Authority Jay Walder abruptly announced Thursday that he is resigning from his post and taking a position with a rail service operator in Hong Kong.

After initially limiting the number of wedding spots on Sunday in anticipation of high turnout Sunday — the first day gay marriage is legal in New York — the Bloomberg administration is now saying it will accommodate everyone who registered in time.

A four-alarm fire tore through a water treatment plant in Harlem Wednesday afternoon and caused the evacuation of Riverside State Park at 135th Street and Riverside Drive.

The same day the results of an autopsy revealed the 8-year-old boy abducted from a Brooklyn street last week was drugged before he was smothered to death, a grand jury indicated 35-y...

At least two people were injured when a helicopter made an emergency landing behind a school in central New Jersey on Wednesday.

The state comptroller ripped the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for what he said was a failure to fully vet more than $1  billion in outsourced contracts.