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Animal activists staged a protest on April 19, 2014, outside of Liam Neeson 's Upper West Side apartment building in New York City, supporting a ban on carriage horse rides through Central Park.

To say that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is unbowed after some difficult moments in his first few months in office is not entirely true.

Most New Yorkers showed their best colors in the annual Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue, but a few may have dusted off their Halloween outfits.

LES MISERABLES HALE CENTRE THEATRE 2/12-4/26/2014 This international smash-hit may be the most popular musical in the world.

Sian Green, 23, had to have her left leg amputated after she was hit by a cab outside Rockefeller Center on August 20, 2013 Green has filed a $27.5 million claims against the city, claiming the driver shouldn't have been driving due to prior violations A New York City cab driver who ran over a British tourist in midtown Manhattan last year - ... (more)

"After two grand juries convened by the Bronx District Attorney's office and two years later, we have still not received justice and there has been no accountability," Constance Malcolm writes.

Along with plenty of New York attitude, Rapaport provides some historical context regarding the state of New York City and professional basketball in the late 1960s, but probably not to an extent that would win over non-basketball enthusiasts.

Dressed as a horse, Lisa Jablow, center, a member of NYCLASS which opposes use of carriage horses in New York City, joins other animal rights activists outside actor Liam Neeson's home on Saturday, April 19, 2014 to protest his stance on the continued use of carriage horses in Central Park and certain roads around the city.

The New York State Department of Health says nearly 35 percent of city students are obese or overweight, and this week's New Yorker of the Week wants to change that by bringing gardens and kitchens to schools.

Kim Barker and Max Potts, managing partners at Drakes, pictured with the deep fried Easter egg now on sale as part of their chocolate menu Picture Frank Dwyer SCOTTISH fish and chip shops may have created battered Mars bars - but now a York chippie has gone one better with a special seasonal treat: deep fried Easter eggs.

The men, who were in their twenties, are reported to have disappeared after the crash in Water Lane between Clifton Moor Gate and Burdyke Avenue at 7.15am.

Ashley Cook with the open manhole cover in Gale Lane in York that brought him off his bicycle when he collided with it.

COMPENSATION amounting to A 15,350 has been paid out by City of York Council after children were injured while in school.

Have you noticed the faux charity donation bins popping up on the North Crown Hts sidewalks on your walk to the subways? Well they are really for profit companies.

When I first moved from Brooklyn to north of Boston in 1971, I lived in the far north, near the New Hampshire line.

A New York City news organization has apologized after it canceled a church's advertising campaign promoting its Easter Sunday services - just three days before Good Friday.

Once synonymous with New York , family-run pizza shops are an endangered species these days as more and more owners are force to shutter their stores to make room for the city's ubiquitous dollar-a-slice chains.

The Daily News reports that NYCLASS founder Steve Nislick muttered a violent comment while speaking to a handler: "The founder of NYCLASS clearly has NO class.

Like any responsible New Yorker, I've entrusted a copy of my apartment keys to a close friend.

MOBILE, Alabama - Since they moved their belongings from New York City to Mobile in a U-Haul truck last July, Margo Alderton and Andre Lotz have been initiated into everything Mobile, from BayFest to Mardi Gras.