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A 37-year-old man got a 7-year sentence for skipping the fare for a New York City subway train.
Lunar New Year celebrations began around the world today to mark the beginning of the Year of the Snake. Hundreds of millions of Chinese are celebrating with family in mainland China and around the world, including one astronaut in outer space.
A blizzard packing hurricane-force winds pummeled the northeastern United States on Saturday, killing at least one person, leaving about 600,000 customers without power and disrupting thousands of flights.
New updated blizzard warnings for New York City, southern New York State and Massachusetts warn of greater amounts of snow than earlier reported. The updates, which were released early Friday afternoon, remain in effect until 1 p.m. EST on Saturday throughout the Northeast. Governors in several states have also instituted state of emergencies.
It hasn't even been four months since Hurricane Sandy devastated the Northeast, and it looks like another superstorm is descending upon the region this weekend. Dubbed "Nemo," this blizzard is expected to drop around 2 feet of snow along the Interstate 95, on top of metropolitan areas such as New York City and Boston.
Only months after getting pummeled by a hurricane so bad that experts decided to call it a "Super Storm", the northeast is now bracing for a blizzard that is projected to be as bad or worse than the historic 1978 winter storm that turned the region into a frozen tundra
A 54-year-old New York woman was arrested after she passed her jailed son drugs with an open mouthed kiss at a county jail in late January, according to a police report.
On Monday, friends, family members, dignitaries and noted politicians said goodbye to New York City Mayor Ed Koch during his funeral service which was held not far from the 59th Street Bridge which was remained the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge in 2011.
Today New Yorkers are proud to celebrate the 100th anniversary of one of its most prized landmarks, Grand Central Terminal.
The former New York Mayor died Friday morning, Feb. 1, from congestive heart failure. Koch is the subject of Barsky's documentary that will be screened at the upcoming Hartford Jewish Film Festival in April and opens in theaters today.
Between rehearsing for the Super Bowl Halftime show and dealing with the lip-syncing scandal surrounding her inauguration performance, Beyonce found time to launch a new fragrance.
In a story bound to break the hearts of many, the lost dolphin that found itself further up the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn than it wanted to has died. It's death was exacerbated by freezing temperatures currently affecting New York.
The Center for Disease Control's latest weekly Flu report notes that 5,249 confirmed cases of the flu have afflicted the nation from October 1, 2013 to January 12, 2013. U
It's day two of the New York City school bus strike pitting the bus unions against the City and leaving parents and students stuck in the middle.
