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Inspired by skateboarding and BMX, daring cyclists get together to perform acrobatic tricks on fixed gear bikes.

Even in the final hours of pregnancy, many nonviolent offenders in New York are nonetheless treated as escape risks.

Croteaux Farm Vineyards of Southold, which produces three salmon-pink still wines, has added an orange-pink 2008 bubbly.

The six cultivated acres surrounding Holbrook Farm’s red barn retail shop are neatly lined with raised beds of lettuces, herbs, onions, edamame and okra.

Boxcar Cantina, the first restaurant in Fairfield County to be certified as “green,” serves huge portions at moderate prices.

Payback is a - well, you know. Hours after the 31-day state Senate stalemate was broken, lawmakers early Friday took the rare step of actually defeating a bill on the floor, by a vote of 35 to 27.

What budget crisis? After crying poverty for months, Mayor Bloomberg authorized fat raises yesterday for 6,692 of his managers and nonunion employees, worth $69 million over two years.

Billionaire Tom Golisano - who engineered the GOP coup that paralyzed the Senate for a month - says he'd do it again.

The stolen eagles have landed. Two bronze eagle statues swiped from Central Park more than 30 years ago have finally been returned to the city, officials said Friday.

Harlem Success Academy founder Eva Moskowitz swapped scathing verbal blows Friday with Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer after he toured a public school her charter plans to share space with.

She survived 12 terrifying hours as a hostage in a Connecticut house of horrors -- and now she has to pay for it. Exhausted kidnap survivor Nancy Tyler yesterday was told that her ex-husband canceled the insurance on the South Windsor home before...

A Big Apple law firm working with a court-appointed trustee in the $65 billion Bernard Madoff Ponzi case has racked up more than $14.6 million in legal fees. Bankruptcy Court papers filed yesterday also show that trustee Irving Picard is...

Two top Buildings Department bosses received wrist slaps for lapses that led to the blaze at the former Deutsche Bank building that killed two firefighters, officials said yesterday. Thomas Connors and Christopher Santulli had letters of...

A mother of three who vanished from a lower Manhattan office building called a co-worker to say she had been mysteriously ordered off her normal rounds to work on a different floor. She was never heard from again. Eridania Rodriguez, 46, had...

He should have shown them the money. A Pennsylvania attorney was released from prison yesterday after spending 14 years in the clink on a contempt-of-court citation -- the longest such stretch in US history -- after he was accused of hiding...

A suspect is under arrest in a deadly shooting which has left a Brooklyn family devastated this weekend. Terrence Villanueva is facing murder and weapons charges. Police say he's one of the men who got into a gunfight which took the life of an innocent bystander. Jesselle Page was sitting on a bench watching her 8-year-old nephew, RJ, play with his scooter when several men began shooting at each ...

A cleaning woman who improbably vanished days ago from a Manhattan skyscraper bristling with security cameras was finally found dead Saturday, stuffed inside an air conditioning duct on the 12th floor. Police discovered the corpse, hidden in a utility room, just before 9 a.m. as they began searching the 26-story tower for the fourth straight day. Now, family members are hearing the news they ...

Jeff Francoeur had a two-run single in his Mets debut and Johan Santana pitched seven sharp innings, leading New York to a 4-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday night. Omir Santos had three hits for New York, which scored all its runs in the first two innings. Leadoff hitter Angel Pagan scored twice and swiped two bases in his second game back after being sidelined with a strained ...

It was an accident waiting to happen -- an open sewer and a 15-year-old girl who was texting while she walked. Alexa Longueira, a high school sophomore, was walking along Victory Boulevard near Travis Avenue on Staten Island when she felt the earth move and was plunged into smelly darkness. She said the manhole she fell in to was left open and unattended with no warning signs or orange cones. ...

Mike Napoli hit a go-ahead two-run double off Andy Pettitte during a seven-run fifth inning and added a solo homer in the seventh, leading the Los Angeles Angels to their second straight comeback victory over the New York Yankees, 14-8 on Saturday. Alex Rodriguez homered twice for the Yankees, increasing his career total to 570 and putting him in 10th place on the all-time list ahead of former ...

Cops in Westbury rescued baby ducks trapped in a storm drain Saturday afternoon as the ducks' helpless mother watched nearby "in distress, a Nassau County police spokeswoman said.

Spectators cheered as horses, carrying riders in flag-print vests, trotted in close formation, and later a K-9 dog succeeded in sniffing out the can that contained gasoline.

An armed bandit robbed a Subway sandwich shop in Levittown on Saturday afternoon, Nassau police said.

Hundreds of Long Islanders lounged in beach chairs, spread out on blankets, sat in a small section of stadium seating or simply stood Saturday as they listened to the music that filled Shorefront Park in Patchogue.

In a Long Island community where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once visited to promote school integration, the number of black teachers in the Malverne school district is little changed from a generation ago, despite ongoing efforts to further integrate the predominantly white faculty.

A resident of the town was charged with 12 counts of animal cruelty to four young kittens Thurday evening, according to Victor Amato, chief of the Monmouth County Society for thr Prevention of Animal Cruelty.

An armed thief fled the jewelry store he was attempting to rob of its cash this morning after a store employee turned on the burglar alarm while at gunpoint, police reported.

A 5-year-old New York girl vacationing in the township's Holgate section died early Saturday morning at Southern Ocean County Hospital in Stafford, officials confirmed.

A powerboat anchored near the Barnegat Light Inlet was destroyed by an apparent engine fire this afternoon, police said.

The 20-year-old Neptune Township resident wanted in connection with the robberies of two Chinese food deliverymen turned himself in to police today, said his attorney.

Authorities are investigating the shooting of three men in Newark Saturday morning. Police were called to James Street shortly before 5 a.m. and found the three men at separate locations on the thoroughfare, Newark Police Detective Todd McClendon said. An...

Foul play not ruled out in the 37-year-old former junior welterweight champion's death

A Newark man was arrested in connection with a fatal motor vehicle accident that killed a 33-year-old pregnant woman, authorities said. William Rivera, 39, is facing charges on manslaughter and drunken driving for the accident on Friday that happened shortly...

A southern New Jersey county has approved a $4 million settlement that could end a class-action lawsuit over strip searches done at its jail, the Associated Press reported. The suit claimed unnecessary strip searches were conducted on thousands of men...

Foul play not ruled out in the former junior welterweight champion's death

Lateef Ojoye, 28, was inside his car at the corner of Pine and Summer Streets in Passaic when he was shot by someone outside the vehicle.

Patient assistant, 21, accused of assaulting 19-year-old.

Endeavour was supposed to launch Saturday evening.

The state Department of Health and Senior Services will use $7.5 million of the funds for preparation and prevention efforts of seasonal and swine flu.

The show’s casting directors came to Manhattan this morning as part of their 15-city search for contestants for the show’s ninth season, which will be shown on television in January 2010.

Johan Santana helped the NY Mets to a 4-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.

Surveillance video captures an off-duty officer trying to stop a gas station robbery.

The son of the late Rev. Timothy Wright will be installed as pastor of his dad's church.

Three men were found shot Saturday at separate locations along a street in Newark.

A fight happened right outside a Wetchester County police station.