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Demolition began on the new project that will turn eight acres of Governors Island into park space by next year.

Numerous clients have been calling their financial planners planners as the world rocks unsteadily, seeking advice and words of comfort.

An 88-year-old man fatally shot his ailing wife in her hospital bed on Friday and then shot himself in the head, the authorities said.

As the final stop on the subprime lending train, the Civil Court has become the 21st-century debtors? court. Filings have nearly tripled since 2000.

A last-minute clause has been inserted into a controversial bill to extend term limits. The mayor's proposed law was amended to say that if the majority of voters in a 2010 referendum prefer it, the law will revert to two terms.

THE SEASON of frolicking freely on Governors Island comes to a close Monday, but Mayor Bloomberg says the future of the former Coast Guard base looks bright.

Mayor Bloomberg is "petrified" that charities will get less cash this year because the economic downturn has left deep-pocketed donors with less to give them.

New Yorkers have their final chance Saturday to sign up to vote in the Nov. 4 elections. The five Board of Elections borough offices, and dozens of public schools, will be open from noon to 9 p.m.

Only two weeks before he died in a manhole explosion beneath a Brooklyn street, Con Edison worker George Dillman applied for a transfer to a less dangerous job, his grieving family said.

Tom Renney's night started with a rousing ovation at Madison Square Garden and ended with him standing at his postgame news conference after he couldn't get his chair untangled from the table. In between, the coach led the New York Rangers to their third straight win -- even if the process wasn't pretty. Brandon Dubinsky scored once and added two assists, and newcomers Wade Redden, Aaron Voros ...

More than 18 million Americans are affected by depression yearly, and our economic crisis is only making matters worse. But knowing the warning signs and what to do about them can make all the difference.

No matter what the New Jersey Devils do to change the team in the offseason, the face of the franchise remains Martin Brodeur. Brodeur stopped a penalty shot and finished with 25 saves and the Devils spoiled Scott Gordon's NHL coaching debut with a 2-1 victory over the New York Islanders on Friday night.

The financial crisis has prompted massive job cuts on Wall Street, and across the economic spectrum firms large and small are considering layoffs. So what can you do to help "bulletproof" your job to avoid losing it? CBS 2 HD spoke to some experts.

This economic crisis could make a bas situation even worse for some of New York's neediest. That's because the local charities they rely on for help may not be able to help anymore. Wall Street's troubles are trickling down to the people who can least afford them.

Former President Bill Clinton's foundation has announced plans to strengthen restaurants in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood. The program is a collaboration among the William J. Clinton Foundation, New York University's business school and Booz &...

Being the biggest booster of Brooklyn's controversial Atlantic Yards project has really paid off for Borough President Marty Markowitz. Since 2003, Nets owner Bruce Ratner and others involved in the $4 billion plan for an NBA arena and 16...

There's no place like home - especially if you're Giant quarterback Eli Manning. The Super Bowl MVP and his bride, Abby, have set up a new game plan for their modest Hoboken pad -retrofitting the 3,000 square-foot condo to resemble something...

A Dover, NJ, mother drove her 14-year-old daughter to the home of a girl she said was picking on her at school and goaded them to fight, cops say. Sharon Quintero, 29, is charged with simple assault, conspiracy to commit simple assault and using a...

It may be called the "Hottest Place on Earth," but the Hawaiian Tropic Zone runs hot and cold when it comes to sexual harassment, employees say. Just weeks before a bombshell lawsuit accused top brass of looking the other way when staffers...

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Police are searching for a suspect in an incident that happened sometime after 9 p.m., outside 27 Warren St., near the Park Hill Houses in Staten Island's Clifton section. It is possible the suspect may have been involved in a...

Advance file photoRep. Vito Fossella has been in contact with Army officials regarding a Reserve center on Staten Island. Army officials have given him "all assurances" that they are working to find a suitable location in the borough for the...

Associated PressAlaska Gov. Sarah Palin addresses supporters during a stop in Greenville, N.C. Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative...

Federal lawmakers from New York met with members of the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board Friday and hammered out a "consensus" for several reforms in the embattled agency, including possibly "re-evaluating" the legitimacy of Long Island Rail Road retirees currently receiving disability benefits, officials said.

Charlie O'Keefe was apprehensive Friday before viewing designs of a proposed overhaul to the intersection of Route 110 and Jericho Turnpike in Huntington Station.

To those who knew him, Kelvin Christie had come far from his troubled youth, when he was arrested multiple times in one year on misdemeanor assault charges.

George Joseph Dillman didn't want to work underground anymore.

A state board has denied a Suffolk police union's request to stop the county from replacing police patrols on two Long Island highways with sheriff's deputies.

Government officials are ordering a Bronx fertilizer plant to keep the lid on odors from the sludge it processes _ after residents sued, saying the stench is ruining their lives.

A Bronx gang member already serving prison time for drug dealing now faces life in prison for hiring two teenagers to kill another dealer.

A teenage mother is charged with murder in the death of her newborn boy.

Opponents of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign to change the city's term-limits law so he can run again filed a complaint Thursday alleging he abused his power when he made a deal to win over a potential foe.

Opponents of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to have the City Council change New York's term-limit law so he can run again are taking their argument to church.

A Columbia University teacher who was fired after she was accused of claiming others' work as her own has sued the Ivy League school.

New York City is knocking down 10 buildings on Governors Island to make way for new recreation space.

Gov. David Paterson says the winter heating season might be easier than expected for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers.

The New York City teachers' union says a city policy violates teachers' First Amendment rights by banning them from wearing political campaign pins.

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Diana Williams talks to politicians and leaders from the tri-state area.

Besides the economy, what issue matters to you in the race for President?

Hundreds of voters have been sent absentee ballots in which they could vote for "Barack Osama."

An elderly woman was killed inside a hospital in Toms River Friday afternoon.

A Monmouth County grand jury has indicted a former high school baseball coach, charging him with 12 counts of child endangerment following an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.

A Columbia University teacher who was fired after she was accused of claiming others' work as her own has sued the Ivy League school.

Wait, who is running for president? In an upstate New York county, hundreds of voters have been sent absentee ballots in which they could vote for "Barack Osama."

Federal officials were scrambling Friday in an effort to see if the wayward dolphins trapped in New Jersey's Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers can be saved.

In an upstate New York county, hundreds of voters have been sent absentee ballots in which they can vote for "Barack Osama."