A panel discussion titled “Peace Within” at the Newark Peace Education Summit on Friday. The discussion included the Dalai Lama, center, and the anti-land mine activist Jody Williams, seated fourth from right.
Two Nobel Peace Prize winners, the Dalai Lama and Jody Williams, got about as close as such people ever get to actual confrontation at the Newark Peace Education Summit.
Threatened with thousands of layoffs, representatives for state employees agreed to a deal to produce what Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has called a balanced budget with pain for everyone.
As gay rights advocates intensify their campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, the bulk of their money is coming from an unexpected source.
Agencies across New York that have provided a last-ditch legal lifeline to distressed homeowners are imperiled.
The court rejected Vincent L. Leibell III’s bid to avoid prison for tax evasion and be punished instead by serving as an overseas diplomat.
Inconsistencies in a testimony and a lack of DNA evidence were cited by the lawyer for Officer Kenneth Moreno, who is accused of raping a woman he had been called to help.
State education officials in New York plan to enact new evaluation regulations that permit up to 40 percent of the annual reviews to be based on students’ scores on standardized exams.
Springing up across New York are markets where people can find an old camera or LP, some gourmet food and maybe even some insight into the meaning of life.
Mr. Ai would create quick portraits for money near Central Park or in Times Square. 'He was a better painter than sketcher,' recalls one artist who still makes his living that way.
The state's ethics commission says John J. O'Connor, a senior vice chancellor for research and innovation, hired the daughter of Joseph Bruno to a position where she "did virtually no work."
Here is a slide show of photographs from the past week in New York City and the region.
A shop in the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens neighborhood in Brooklyn has gained a large following with its offerings of ital food and vegetarian ice cream.
May 13, 2011
Slide Show: Subjects include a robotic bellhop, budget protests, and Canada geese in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
May 13, 2011
The announcement of Benjamin Lawsky's nomination to run the Department of Financial Regulation is expected to come Monday. And not in an outside group's e-mail.
May 13, 2011
A total of 22 struggling city schools will be allowed to remain open, but under limited private management.
May 13, 2011
The love/hate relationship residents have with the city is a perennial theme, but according to a statewide poll released by NY1/YNN - Marist College, there is a quantifiable disdain for living here.
A former Greenwich Village psychic is sought by the police after persuading a client to give her nearly $30,000.
A gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated links between China and the United States.
A wide assortment of outdoor film series cater to a variety of audiences, from Francophiles to children.
In addition to more upscale nightclubs, performance spaces around Manhattan offer ballads and standards for a comparative song.
A new approach to continuing education is gaining traction: collaborative learning. The idea? We’ve all got something to learn and something to teach.
A refurbished four-story grist mill from 1799 that sits on a creek has cultivated its owner’s love of gardening.
A rescue team has decided to leave Violet, the red-tailed hawk with the injured leg, on her nest above Washington Square Park.
This week marks the peak of avian migration in the city. Articles, photos and multimedia.
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Slide Show: Stars Beneath the Stars
