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Foodies noshing on jerk riblets and carrot cake macaroons at a Manhattan fundraiser Sunday paused to mourn Gourmet magazine, which is closing after nearly 60 years of publication.
Peru's Machu Picchu ancient ruins, Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona and a New Orleans elementary school are among the cultural heritage sites threatened by neglect or overdevelopment, a preservationist group said Tuesday.
Former Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress apologized to his family and tearfully kissed his wife and young son goodbye Tuesday before he was led away to prison to begin serving a two-year sentence on a weapons charge.
A New York jury has begun deliberating the case against the son of socialite Brooke Astor.
Animal-welfare groups are accusing the trustees of hotel queen Leona Helmsley's multibillion-dollar estate of ignoring her wishes that the lion's share of the money should go to the dogs.
Former New York Giants star Plaxico Burress will be arraigned later this month on a weapons charge for shooting himself in the thigh at a New York City nightclub.
A New York finance company that lent celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz $24 million has filed a lawsuit charging that she reneged on the deal.
Decades after a riot at a Greenwich Village bar sparked a movement for equal rights, gay New Yorkers celebrated their gains at Sunday's gay pride parade and lamented the state has not legalized same-sex marriage.
Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that's what they want to do.
The New York developer trying to bring the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn has gotten approval for a land deal he said was necessary to keep the project on track.
The owner of ground zero and a developer are talking past a deadline set by New York City's mayor to work out their differences.
Tens of thousands of supporters of Israel crowded New York's Fifth Avenue on Sunday as part of the annual parade celebrating the birth of the Jewish state in 1948.
The family of a woman who died on a hospital floor, struggling to get up while staffers ignored her, has settled a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city for $2 million.
Top elected officials from New York and New Jersey are meeting with the developer of the World Trade Center site in hopes of resolving an impasse over who will pay for new office towers there.
Former presidential candidate Bob Kerrey is stepping down as president of the New School when his contract is up in 2011 but says it has nothing to do with faculty and student protests against him.
In his first days as head of the Roman Catholic Church in New York, Archbishop Timothy Dolan celebrated Mass in prison, talked baseball in the Yankees and Mets broadcast booths, visited the World Trade Center site and nibbled matzo at a symbolic Seder.
The red brick arches on the facade of the New York Mets' new stadium rise stories above a pristine plaza of plants, bushes and walkways, encasing the baseball team's $850 million playground.
Of all the 41,007 fans who paid top dollar to attend Monday's official Citi Field opener, perhaps no one beat the father and son in section 11, row 8, seats 5 and 6.
Cardinal Edward Egan, who will retire as head of New York City's Roman Catholic Archdiocese on Wednesday, told worshippers at his last Easter Mass that mortal life is fleeting and "we are here for a moment in eternity."
Helen Levitt, a giant of 20th century photography whose scenes of New York City street life provide a window into a vanished era, has died. She was 95.
Officials running the nation's largest mass transit system voted Wednesday to impose steep fare hikes and painful service cuts to close a $1.2 billion budget gap.
Survivors of a crane crash that killed seven people gathered with neighbors and elected officials to mark the one-year anniversary of the deadly construction accident.
Prosecutors are looking into why the new White House urban affairs director hasn't paid an architect for house designs made two years ago — the same time he recommended the architect for a lucrative city contract.
Hundreds of houses — some with starting bids as low as $1,000 — were sold to the highest bidders Sunday in a rare auction of foreclosed properties in the New York metropolitan area, the company running the sale said.
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