New York News

A raunchy scandal has hit a Brooklyn high school after the Daily News reports two Romance language teachers were caught "undressed" in an empty classroom.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said today the city has created 30-second ads that will run on at least six channels starting this month.

New York City is expected to pass legislation intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, which are the city's largest source of heat-trapping gases.

An arrest has been made in the strangulation death of a New York City woman whose body was found on Long Island.

ALBANY - Gay-rights advocates pledged Tuesday to run candidates against state senators who last week rejected a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in New York.

The New York City health department has issued a rabies warning for the very heart of Manhattan.

If they can make it there, they can make it anywhere. Zaarath and Christopher Prokop, and their two cats, live in the smallest apartment in New York City, a 175-square-foot "microstudio" the couple bought for $150,000. At 14.9 feet long and 10 feet wide, it's about as narrow as a subway car and as claustrophobic as a jail cell.

Investigator combs scene of shooting that killed Audrey Johnson, wife of former NBA All-Star World B. Free .

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has vetoed a bill that gives drivers a five-minute grace period in certain parking zones around the city.

One lawyer calls it the "death list" - a cadre of about 20 veteran defense lawyers in New York who have broad experience in death penalty and other complex criminal cases.

ALBANY The State Commission on Public Integrity today announced that it has charged thirteen lobbyists and clients with alleged violations of the lobbying law.

According to a recent survey by Rep. Anthony Weiner , many banks are charging high fees of up to $40 to victims who have received bad checks.

Rain didn't deter several hundred people from rallying in front of Manhattan's federal courthouse complex, to protest plans to try major terrorism suspects in New York City.

The wife of a former NBA player was cut down by gunfire in Brooklyn yesterday, the latest victim of a bullet meant for somebody else.

TO STORY BROOKLYN, N.Y. - The judge in the trial of ultra-right-wing shock jock and former FBI informant Hal Turner of North Bergen declared a mistrial early this afternoon after the jury said it was "hopelessly deadlocked." U.S. District Court Judge Donald Walter dismissed the jury and set a new trial date of March 1. He then extended a gag order, ...

Staci Assael, 49, was arrested for driving with a revoked license was packing a veritable pharmacy of prescription pills in her unmentionables.

A New Jersey blogger crossed the line protecting free speech by writing that three federal judges in Chicago "must die" for a decision supporting gun control, a prosecutor said Friday, as the defense countered in closing arguments that giving a passionate opinion is not a crime.

New York's new public worker pension plan is being described as both landmark reform that will save taxpayers billions of dollars and the latest gift to powerful state employee unions.

Drug and gun traffickers who overran a three block stretch of Upper Manhattan with their cocaine, ecstasy and weapons sales were busted Thursday, the Manhattan District Attorney announced.

When actor-playwright Harvey Fierstein was 10 and living in Brooklyn, N.Y., his mother took him to see "Fiddler on the Roof" on Broadway.