New Yorkers in a flap over shock eviction
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For more than a decade, the Fifth Avenue hawks have brought a touch of the wild to Manhattan&#39;s concrete canyons. The raptors that captured the hearts of a city inspired a documentary, a book and reams of newsprint.
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Many homeless shelters and soup kitchens faced with more requests for emergency services are turning people away because they lack the beds, food and money to meet the demand, says a survey from an advocacy group for low-income Americans.
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As a city moves to curb its canine population, typically timid middle-class citizens find themselves fighting the power
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A string of bidders are vying to pay about $5bn (Â£2.6bn) for a chunk of prime real estate in Lower Manhattan.
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About three dozen area residents could get an unexpected windfall -- they are owed refunds by the Internal Revenue Service. They are among more than 6,400 refunds owed to taxpayers in New York that have yet to be claimed.
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Environmentalists bristle as city moves toward 'shared use' of a local haunt.
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Incensed bird lovers intensified their  protests on Saturday outside the ritzy Upper East Side  apartment building that removed the nest of famed red-tailed  hawk Pale Male even as meetings were set to discuss bringing  back the hawk's home.
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: Evictions of the poor, along with mentally ill people and beggars, are one of the games' best-established traditions.
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Residents in government-funded housing in Bristol are up in arms over a decision by their local city council to ban doormats because they pose a &quot;tripping hazard&quot; for anyone escaping a fire.
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Bianca Jagger is getting evicted from her rent-stabilized apartment. In a 3-2 decision, the state Supreme Court's Appellate Division agreed with the argument by Katz Park Avenue Corp. that the place could not be Jagger's primary residence since she was in the country on a tourist visa.
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A raucous debate over the shortage of cheap housing and the demolition of 4,500 public units is sweeping the city and likely to become more intense.
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Thousands of New Yorkers will work  from home or leave the city to avoid next week's Republican  convention and the tightest security in the history of U.S.  political party gatherings.
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Ukrainians in New York took to the streets of Manhattan Saturday to weigh in on the election controversy gripping their homeland.
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Police evacuated a building in Jersey  City, N.J., which has some financial companies as tenants,  after a bomb threat was called in to a tenant, Jersey City  police said on Wednesday.
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By ALEX CUKAN  Residents of Lower Manhattan caught in the toxic dust cloud after the World Trade Center collapse on Sept. 11, 2001, were told by city officials to clean their homes with a wet rag.
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The city has been sending homeless men to poorly-run adult homes, which is forbidden under state rules. The actions say a great deal about the operations of the city's shelters.
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The protesters coming to New York are receiving an outpouring of hospitality from scores of people who are opening their homes as temporary, free shelter.