Jay H. Walder, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's chairman, at right, at Wednesday's board meeting, at which service cuts were approved.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s cuts will eliminate two subway lines and dozens of bus routes in the city and create longer, more-crowded trips for the region’s transit riders.
A pretend jail at a housing-project playground stood for six years without attracting much attention -- until a Web post stirred a furor. Now the jail is no more.
Angel Loja recalls asking Marcelo Lucero if he was alright after being set upon by a group teenagers. “No, Angel, I’m not.”
Dan Senor was considered the leading Republican in a low-profile field of possible candidates for the party’s nomination to take on Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, a Democrat.
The City Council is being evicted from City Hall -- at least temporarily -- while the building undergoes renovations.
The developer Larry Silverstein, who held the lease on the twin towers on 9/11, wants to build one skyscraper reaching 64 stories, and another with 71.
Many details of the deal, since revoked, to award a politically connected group a racetrack casino franchise are still secret.
A major battle was also shaping up between the Assembly and the Senate, which were $600 million apart over education cuts.
Temporary eight-foot chain-link has been added to spans on the university’s campus, where three students have jumped to death this semester.
Demolishing the branch at 34th Street and Seventh Avenue could save more than $28 million in building the Hudson train tunnel, officials said.
The audit said that the Manhattan district attorney’s office needed to register all its bank accounts with the city.
When they have a few moments, two doormen leave their perches on opposite sides of West 86th Street to parley along the yellow line.
A coyote turned up Wednesday afternoon just outside the Holland Tunnel entrance in Manhattan and led the police on a fruitless chase.
A pretend jail at a housing-project playground stood for six years without attracting much attention -- until a Web post stirred a furor. Now the jail is no more.
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" in round-robin recitation style, and other mashed-up wonders.
A lawyer is convicted of fraud for preparing and filing false visa applications and, prosecutors claimed, encouraging his clients, illegal immigrants from India and Pakistan, to lie.
Dr. Martin F. Randolph, who ran a practice out of his home while doing groundbreaking research and teaching, personified an idealized vision of health care.
Michele LoBianco, who teaches “Recession Proofing Your Career,” responds to readers’ questions about career transition and change.
Dr. John Muney says his plan, which offers unlimited office visits, is “the only solution we have to our health care situation.”
What some consider New York’s best view and authentic Mexican food are among the pleasures of the Brooklyn neighborhood.
Maybe more people should shun car decals that tell of vacation destinations, or children's sports teams, and a host of other things.
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