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Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended outgoing Schools Chancellor Cathie Black a day after he announced she would be leaving the post after only three months.

Cathie Black isn't the only person announcing a departure.

The Bronx Zoo cobra that drew national attention after it went missing from its habitat will be named Mia.

Police returned to the remote stretch of beach highway in Long Island on Wednesday where eight bodies were found in recent months to scour the area for additional victims of a suspected serial killer.

The 24-year-old pilot who made an emergency water landing on a Queens beach was cracking jokes as touched down in the surf Monday night.

Cops returned to the overgrown stretch of a barrier island about 45 miles from New York City on Tuesday to search for more victims of a possible serial killer after three more bodies were found in the area Monday.

A single-engine plane landed in the waters off Rockaway near JFK Airport Monday night — but all three aboard are safe.

Two New York City police officers committed a "repugnant" abuse of authority by raping a woman who was extremely drunk, a prosecutor said during opening remarks in Manhattan court on Monday.

The accused mastermind behind the September 11 terror attacks and his alleged co-conspirators will not be tried at a federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan and will instead face a military court at Guantanamo Bay.

The votes are in and the top five finalists in the contest to name the infamous Egyptian cobra that escaped from the Bronx Zoo are...

New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has unveiled a multi-pronged approach to addressing housing violations at city buildings.

On the anniversary of his father's assassination, Martin Luther King III urged the city on Monday to pass a controversial wage bill.

This story really has legs. A day after the Bronx Zoo Cobra was found, the critter's phony @BronxZooCobra Twitter account appears to have hacked into "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest's Twitter account.

Nasdaq is making a rival bid for the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange.

A subsidiary of Skanska — one of the nation's largest construction companies — agreed to pay $19.6 million to settle a criminal investigation into allegations that it worked around minority hiring rules.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg on said the city will be forced to cut the size of the police force and reduce the size of the fire department under the newly passed state budget.

The missing Bronx Zoo cobra has been found, officials said Thursday. The disappeared Egyptian cobra whose whose whereabouts drew national attention since she went missing from its habitat last week.

A who's who of Democrats came to pay their respects Thursday at the upper East Side funeral mass for former Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for U.S. vice president on a major party ticket.

In his second day of testimony, ex-trader Adam Smith testified that Raj Rajaratnam's employees at Galleon Group learned how to disguise trades to make them seem legitimate.

Full service may be coming to the Times Square pedestrian plaza this summer. Restaurants and vendors were asked for proposals detailing food and drink service operations to those se...