Mayor Shows His Testy Side in Deposition for a Lawsuit
By DAVID W. CHEN
In 2009, when questioned in a class-action lawsuit over maternity leave, the mayor was at times sarcastic.
Months after a state law was passed with wage and workplace rules for caregivers and housekeepers, those who would benefit are still learning they have rights.
In 2009, when questioned in a class-action lawsuit over maternity leave, the mayor was at times sarcastic.
The woman in a trial against two police officers charged with rape took the stand to recount what she could.
Financially ailing districts across the state are re-examining laws and regulations they find costly or burdensome, including busing requirements.
“As much as I didn’t want to kill him, I had to kill him,” Joseph C. Massino said of the 1999 death of Gerlando Sciascia.
The mother of a woman who had been missing said the caller offered repeated taunts, and, in a final exchange, a confession.
In federal court in Manhattan, the lawyers for three West African defendants have denied that their clients agreed to send drugs into the United States, the central accusation of a sting operation.
Richard A. Grasso said he would run for mayor of New York City if Eliot Spitzer entered the race but the city’s police commissioner did not.
Sean Keaton, the leader of Public School 20 in Fort Greene, had been accused of kicking and punching a kindergarten teacher who served as a teachers' union representative.
Lisa Dozier, who knew even as a girl that she wanted “to fix dead people,” illustrates a trend in which more women than men are becoming morticians.
In a nest on a 12th-floor ledge, a piece of plastic bag causes concern.
Five of 14 indictments that chart a history of terrorism conspiracies in New York City and elsewhere.
Haitian-Americans are embracing the centuries-old traditions of voodoo, an often stigmatized religion that is undergoing a renaissance in New York City.
The media’s coverage of the Triangle Waist Factory fire helped to embed the blaze, and its aftermath, in the public’s conscience.
Yes, you can teach a New Yorker something. Paul Sliva, the longtime golf pro at Van Cortlandt Golf Course in the Bronx, has a way of making a complicated game seem simple.
The Postal Service’s new Statue of Liberty stamp is accidentally based on the replica at the New York-New York casino in Las Vegas.
Exploring five of the most unusual playgrounds among the nearly 1,000 in New York City, where every borough has more than one extraordinary play space.
The festival’s selections, however quirky, offer crucial exposure for serious independent filmmakers.
Coney Island Museum’s Congress of Curious Peoples wraps up on Saturday and Sunday with a symposium featuring experts on the art of curiosities.
An 11-acre property in Mahopac, N.Y., includes an 1865 farmhouse, a more modern guesthouse, a barn and a pond.
A shop where a small repair might be done for free, and talk therapy is used to explain the rest.
James Taylor, the foremost contemporary composer of what can be called American lullabies, performed the first of four shows planned to celebrate 120 years of music at Carnegie Hall.
Live video streams from the 12th floor of a library at New York University where a pair of red-tailed hawks has a nest.
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