Margaret Lau

New Yorkers are gearing up for the 41st Earth Day celebrations to help raise awareness and appreciation for ...

NEW YORK—In this economic downturn, New Yorkers need freebies more than ever, and a free ferry ride across ...

NEW YORK—Grete Waitz, 57, the Norwegian marathon runner who won the city's marathon nine times passed away Tuesday ...

New Yorkers embarking on a relationship may soon be able to find out whether they are going out ...

Hempstead Village on Long Island last week became the first New York local government to close its $12.5 ...

A proposal to use the Jamaica Bay wetlands for more runways at the JFK International Airport is not ...

A Brooklyn day care provider has been using fictitious identities for children to steal public funds.

A record high number of New Yorkers sought refuge at the city's homeless shelters last year, according to ...

Clean, affordable, and efficient energy is indispensible for the prosperity of the world, and big cities may be ...

Samsung Museum of Art (LSMA) in Seoul, Korea, “Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics” will go on view ...

New Yorkers looking for an apartment to rent on Craig's List can now follow a link to “NYC's ...

About 50 family members of firefighters and other victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks gathered outside the World ...

With nearly every city agency facing budget cuts, the Parks and Recreation Department is no exception.

NEW YORK—To celebrate Women's History Month, the National Park Service (NPS) held a free month-long program at the ...

Most non-New Yorkers would have heard of Herald Square from the song, “Give My Regards to Broadway,” with ...

Brooklyn is combating an "epidemic" of real estate fraud, declared Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes.

The spirit of spring was definitely in the air at Macy's Herald Square store on Sunday. The entire ...

Between 1904 and 1950, about four billion trees were destroyed by blight. Now, these mighty American chestnuts will ...

“No to racial bias,” and “Yes to dignity for all,” read the posters held by community leaders and ...

More than 825,000 New Yorkers do not have bank or credit union accounts.

Chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, or oxycodone? A ring of drug dealers allegedly operated a $1 million a year oxycodone-trafficking ...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's voter approval rating has plummeted for the first time since 2003

City officials joined representatives from the Marijuana Arrest Research Project, the Institute for Juvenile Justice Reforms and Alternatives, ...

U.S. Sen. Schumer joined Congresswoman Velazquez to call upon the National Transportation Safety Board to conduct thorough investigation ...

Demand for real estate for the ultra-rich appears to be making a comeback.

Transportation Alternatives and NYC Street Memorial Project dedicated 13 “ghost bikes” Sunday at the sixth annual Memorial Ride ...

An early Sunday morning blaze in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, left 40 injured, according to a report from the ...