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The focus of this "elegant and sophisticated" co-op's recent renovation was on keeping the "integrity" and "original splendor" of its location, in a "grand-scaled townhouse." The classic mantels and woodwork ...

Proceeds from the event, which is organized by the Museum's Community Committee, a volunteer organization, will benefit a wide range of Museum programs.

"I am so excited to be part of such an intelligent, funny show, as well as working with the brilliant Alec Baldwin and the rest of the cast of '30 Rock,'" Salma said in a statement released to Access Hollywood.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly , the Rev. Richard Beuther, and Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes , along with community leaders and pastors, display guns from previous operations.

Deep in the brownstones of Prospect Heights, away from the cafes of Flatbush and Vanderbilt Avenues, with their homelier crowds and everyday fare, James glows like a well-kept campfire, luring diners to an ...

During the epic battle of Long Island in August 1776, George Washington hoodwinked the British by ferrying his troops to Manhattan from what was then called the Town of Brooklyn, leaving an empty campsite ...

A butcher shop in Greenpoint called it "Hot Kielbasa." But the FBI said the food was code for cocaine.

Ever since the end of World War II, the fall has introduced block parties. At first, they celebrated the victory.

Hakeem Jeffries, a Brooklyn assemblyman, will seek to short-circuit Mayor Bloomberg's bid for a third term, while the mayor reaches an agreement with term limits crusader Ron Lauder.

Workers at the Edge, a condo tower under construction on the Williamsburg waterfront, hung a sign on Wednesday morning mocking GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

The success of Greenpoint's Eberhard Faber Co. - for years the nation's largest pencil manufacturer - came from the fact its pencils were the first to have eraser tips.

One Consolidated Edison worker has died and another is injured following a manhole explosion in Brooklyn.

Readers will have a chance to spend an evening with author Pete Hamill as he takes them on a journey through the streets of New York City while discussing his memoir "A Drinking Life," which will be followed by ...

Ghada Amer: Love Has No End , the first U.S. survey of the renowned artist's work, features some fifty pieces from every aspect of Amer's career as a painter , sculptor, illustrator, performer, garden designer, ...

I recently went to Union Pool, a bar in Brooklyn, NY, to see a band play. Unfortunately, our GPS directed us to the wrong Union Ave., so we didn't get to the bar until after the band had played.

" A Brooklyn man charged with spray-painting dozens of swastikas across Brooklyn Heights and with possession of an illegal weapons cache appeared in Brooklyn Supreme Court Wednesday before Justice John P. ...

Filmmaker Spike Lee will soon open an office in DUMBO, returning to the borough that priced him out earlier this year.

An off-duty Sanitation worker was fatally shot in the chest near 857 Lincoln Place in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn around 5:30 Wednesday morning.

The Wall Street Journal on Saturday profiled the Maimonides Cancer Center in the Chinatown section of Brooklyn, N.Y., which is "among several hospitals nationwide attempting" to be "more sensitive to cultural ...

In a thoughtful, more-optimistic-than-not essay published last month, headlined The Glass Stampede , New York Magazine architecture critic Justin Davidson addressed the building boom, with side-by-side photos ...