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The nation's big cities are riding out the first years of the post-downturn era with plenty of company - boosting their population via a youth movement.s. The nation's big cities are riding out the first years of the post-downturn era with plenty of company - boosting their population via a youth movement.

SINCE the beginning of April, there have been 85 serious collisions on North Yorkshire's roads, including eight deaths.

More New Yorkers find themselves addicted to doctor-prescribed narcotics, and increasingly the city is treating the problem as a public health crisis.

Members of the public in both New York City and Pennsylvania will soon get to see The New York Public Library 's original copy of the Bill of Rights, which will be exhibited for the first time in decades.

Ask five people who have been in New York City for more than a decade what makes someone a "real" New Yorker and you'll get five different answers: if you're born here; seven years in the city; 10 years; when you're no longer fazed by celebrity sightings; when a bagel guy knows how you like your coffee and uses the perfect amount of cream cheese.

"This is not the place if you are dieting, looking for romantic intimacy or elitist dining." It is, however, a place for inexpensive ribs.

Train service from New York to Boston was back on schedule Wednesday on one of the nation's oldest and most heavily traveled railways, five days after a derailment in Connecticut injured scores of commuters and damaged tracks.

The great British actor - best known to the world at large as Severus Snape from the Potter films - was ready for his closeup all around downtown during shooting of this film based on the exploits of New Yorker Hilly Krystal, legendary owner of the equally legendary Manhattan punk club CBGB.

The New York City mayoral race got much more interesting Wednesday with Anthony Weiner's entry, asking New Yorkers in a video to give him a second chance and saying that he's "learned some tough lessons." His wife, Huma Abedin, is standing next to him with her own pitch: "We love this city.

On the night before the first anniversary of the death of Marina Keegan, the 22-year-old writer who was killed in a car crash on Cape Cod days after graduating magna cum from Yale, her play "Utility Monster," will have its world premiere at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, not far from where she spent vacations at her family's summer home.

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For a short-and-sweet indie, shot on the cheap and shot pretty much in secret Frances Ha took an unusually long time to put together.

Former Manchester City and United States international midfielder Claudio Reyna was named as the first director of football for new Major League Soccer team New York City Football Club, the team said on Wednesday.

The Museum of the City of New York today announced a star-studded line-up of musicians and writers for a special concert to benefit the upcoming exhibition Folk City.

AFTER MARK Carson was shot and killed in an apparent antigay hate crime while walking with a friend in downtown Manhattan last week-in a neighborhood just a few blocks from the Stonewall Inn where riots in 1969 gave birth to the gay-rights movement, on a street lined with gay bars and clubs flying rainbow flags in their windows, along an avenue ... (more)

June 16, 2011: Anthony Weiner returns home after he announced his resignation from Congress in the Queens borough of New York.

Setting the stage as the perfect preshow for a Broadway matinee, Madame Tussauds New York is offering theatergoers free admission to the wax attraction for kids when accompanied by a full-paying adult and presentation of a Broadway show ticket.

Village Voice as "sweet and inspiring," You Don't Need Feet to Danc e receives its Canadian premiere on Thursday .

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YouTube is having its first ever Comedy Week, an all-week special that kicked off May 19 and will run through May 25.