York, England News

A crew of writers, comedians, and performers will convene in Park Slope on July 30 to describe their own bumpy roads toward understanding life in New York City.

The New Yorker , a magazine, has just opened its Internet "archives" as a readers' jubilee in advance of its upcoming move to the world of paywalled journalism, three months hence.

New Yorkers already have a tough time keeping a fresh face , between zillions of cars emitting exhaust, garbage piles on every sidewalk, and whatever that steam is bubbling up from underground going straight into our pores.

Once upon a time, the Republican governors in the country were unified behind New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

Animal Care and Control of New York City is getting out the word that they need people to come and adopt cats.

Donald and Joan Thorpe were married on July 24, 1954, at St Luke's Church in her native Grimethorpe near Barnsley, and set up life together in Yearsley Grove, York, where they still live.

FEW architectural styles divide opinion like Brutalism, the term coined by Swedish architect Hans Asplund to describe post war buildings where function often wins over form.

A new report Wednesday identified eight agencies, including the Department of Health, collecting or updating their data systems to gather those demographics.

A combative Michael Bloomberg told CNN on Wednesday the United States erred in banning airline flights to Israel after a Hamas rocket landed near its main airport earlier this week.

Longtime critics of the New York Police Department are seizing on the death of Eric Garner while in police custody to call for an end to proactive policing.

William Rapfogel, the former chief of New York's Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, was sentenced to 3 1/3 to 10 years in prison for his role in a kickback scheme.

Tom Ince, Robert Snodgrass and Jake Livermore all featured, with the former coming close to opening his account, as the League Two side tested their Premier League opponents Sone Aluko and Yannick Sagbo gave Hull City a 2-0 win over York City as the Premier League side continued their warm up for the new season.

York in 1914: The tram terminus outside the vicarage on Haxby Road, at around the time of the start of the First World War The Yorkshire Herald, the city's main morning newspaper, had covered the murder of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28 in some detail.

The poster on the ground quotes Garner; video of the arrest shows him telling police officers he couldn't breathe, shortly before he lost consciousness.

Vladimir Putin has no soul, US Vice President Joe Biden concluded after meeting with the Russian leader at the Kremlin in 2011, according to an article in the New Yorker.

The unhappy crowd: New York City continues to draw new residents. But apparently, people aren't moving here because it makes them happy.

Richard Watkins attends a vigil for Eric Garner near where he died after he was taken into police custody in Staten Island last Thursday on July 22, 2014 in New York City.

Under the plans the total number of city councillors will remain the same - 47 - but over 21 wards instead of the current 22, with each councillor representing an average of 3,500 people.

Mayor Bill de Blasio yesterday played a smart political card while on his Italian vacation - reaching out to the pope.

A New York City developer plans to create a so-called "poor door" entrance for affordable housing residents in a luxury condo - an arrangement that critics slammed as fundamentally at odds with Jewish ethics.