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One teenager was fatally shot and another wounded on Monday evening when someone opened fire along a busy street near a Brooklyn subway station, the police said. The police were [...]

A Brooklyn girl who was badly burned and whose seven siblings died a month ago in a fire has been released from the hospital, and according to a family acquaintance, [...]

The last thing that Vilmarie Garcia remembers from Jan. 10 is her skin turning purple as the physicians at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital put her in a drug-induced coma. ''They thought I [...]

Nicola Barbieri figures that during his monthlong visit to New York, he has stopped into about 60 galleries in Chelsea. And not once did he get even a hello from [...]

Kenneth Silver had little to lose by 2012. His way of life was already severely diminished, and when Hurricane Sandy swept through Coney Island, its waves washed away what little [...]

Serafima Leyfman was extremely proud of her long, dark hair, which spilled all the way down to her legs. Her husband had also adored her lengthy tresses. She would not [...]

A well-worn potato masher was a tantalizing clue. ''You've got to see the thing. It's old,'' Kristina Mack said. Indeed it is. According to family lore, the battered wooden utensil [...]

After she started high school, Analeida Serrano began to experience an anxiety disorder triggered by situations like crowded classrooms. ''I would get sweaty, I would get dizzy and almost pass [...]

Wendy Jerido, 20, just wants a room of her own. A place, she said with a sigh one day in the fall, ''where I can stay in my own little [...]

On a recent evening, Carol Savvas made dinner in her TriBeCa home. She minced organic spinach, scallions and parsley. She cracked open 'certified humane' eggs and mixed them with crumbled [...]

Victoria Chase began pursuing her bachelor's degree about 30 years ago. While attending Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn in the early 1980s, she was happily enrolled in a work-study program [...]

Wherever Emmanuel Morantus goes, a long length of plastic tubing trails behind him. Whether he is padding into his tiny bathroom or stepping outside to retrieve his mail or resting [...]

The discord among the three Athanasatos brothers was nearly four decades deep, and it centered on the family's two-story brick house in Borough Park, Brooklyn. This week, the fraternal discord [...]

It was an unlovely place and its customers had many complaints: a chronic damp and musty smell, a poor selection unless one harbored a passion for Campbell's soups, exorbitant prices, [...]

As an avid Yankees fan for years, Edwin Tavarez often noticed bat boys on the field catching foul balls outside the first- and third-base lines and retrieving bats flung by [...]

While interning two years ago at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Karen Orlando would often gaze longingly from the roof of her apartment building in Prospect Heights to a lot below on [...]

When she worked the streets, Yvette Gonzales said, she frequently saw other prostitutes working without condoms. But they were not having unprotected sex at the request of their customers. Often, [...]

Sylvia Brown knows the ending to the old saying: If something sounds too good to be true .... But there was something about a music promoter's promise of recording careers [...]

When Francis Stephen arrived in the United States from Bangladesh two years ago, his father already had a career plan in mind for him, he said. ''The first day I [...]

When Alice Reiser, 89, wants to talk to her husband and sons, she turns to their photographs. They are all she has left of them, besides memories. ''I wake up [...]

Natasha Sydney's new home has a sunset view of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and three ''Happy Birthday'' balloons hovering near the living room ceiling, but not much else. That is because [...]

At 3:55 p.m. five days a week, Jeremiah Fox heads down the block from the Juice Box, a wine store he manages in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, and enters the Crossroads [...]

Campfires, boomerangs and stone tools are not what most schoolchildren have in mind when they hear the word ''technology.'' But in a workshop last week at the Mott Haven campus [...]

Wearing paint-specked khakis over his lean, stooped frame, Guy Arthur Wiggins, 90, a painter who approximates Fred Astaire in voice and visage, made his way up 40 steps to the [...]

The end of her life merited a 19-word sentence in a newspaper article about the first 10 killings on Jan. 1, 1987. She was the eighth killing recorded that day. [...]

Agneta Welber has lost track of how many home health aides have come and gone over the past five years. Some lasted long enough to ''cash a check and not [...]

When the trend-setting fashion designers Marcus Wainwright and David Neville of Rag & Bone wanted a top-of-the-line men's wear maker for their hip brand, whose door did they knock on? [...]

Eleven months out of the year, the parishioners of New York City can safely attend Sunday services with no reasonable fear of interlopers, television cameras or quizzical members of the [...]

A man accused in the beating death of his companion's 2-year-old son confessed to striking the boy with his hands, knees and elbows and slamming him to the floor in [...]

A 2-year-old Brooklyn boy died on Friday night after his bruised, listless body was discovered in his mother's apartment, and the death was later ruled a homicide, the authorities said. [...]

The doorways inside 30 Ocean Parkway, an Art Deco building in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, are studded with mezuzas of all sizes and styles: plastic, pewter, simple, gaudy, elegant. The people [...]

A police officer shot and wounded a disabled man who was wielding a knife on a Brooklyn street after the man ignored orders to drop the weapon, shook off a [...]

One spring day in 1976, a bedraggled pigeon traipsed through the open doorway of the Koho School of Sumi-E, a tiny, cramped Japanese brush painting school in SoHo. The bird [...]

The sign outside Chris Restaurant in Brooklyn listed some staples of Caribbean cuisine among its offerings: homemade fried chicken, jerk chicken and stew fish. But according to the authorities, there [...]

A three-story brick building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that was being renovated collapsed on Monday afternoon, critically injuring a worker who was trapped in the rubble and leaving three other people [...]

Crystal Chatwood and Eugene Thomas had hitchhiked from Georgia to Florida in search of work, and finding none, had taken a ride north to New York with another couple. The [...]

A 23-year-old Bronx man was arrested on Sunday and charged with murdering his companion's 22-month-old daughter, the police said. The city medical examiner's office said she had been beaten to [...]

A sport utility vehicle suddenly accelerated while backing up in a church parking lot in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon, killing a woman and injuring four other people, including two children, [...]

A teenager's leg was severed by a train while he was in a Brooklyn subway tunnel on Saturday night, planning to paint graffiti with two other boys, the authorities said. [...]

A 24-year-old man fatally stabbed his companion and her two young daughters in their Brooklyn home, wrapped them in garbage bags, and waited at least a day before calling his [...]

An 18-year-old Queens man was fatally shot by the police late Saturday after he pointed a loaded pistol toward three plainclothes officers who were pursuing him, the authorities said. The […]

Shaking as two relatives helped her onto a sofa, Rose Danielle Etienne, 26, sobbed Thursday afternoon as she spoke of a fire that had swept through her apartment in Brooklyn […]

A reputed soldier for the Gambino crime family was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for his role in the killings of four people in New York. But it […]

By the time lunch was over, flour coated all the workstations at the culinary school in Brooklyn. Shards of dough stuck to the surfaces. And a dozen or more flat […]

A concrete-testing company and its laboratory director have been indicted on charges that they falsified test reports about the strength of concrete at some of New York's largest construction projects, […]

A night of music and dancing at a block party in Brooklyn ended in violence on Saturday night when two men were fatally shot in a car parked nearby, the […]

Jose was 14 when he left his home in Oaxaca, Mexico, and paid a smuggler $1,200 to sneak him across the border. He made it to Phoenix and started on […]

His was a Brooklyn neighborhood riddled with the drug trade, and Shem Walker, who understood the pitfalls of that life firsthand, tried to fight it, urging neighbors to stay away […]

The widow of a New York City fire marshal was sentenced on Thursday to 25 years to life in prison for killing him, a sentence that was greeted by spontaneous […]

At one table there were kosher jelly beans and lists of jobs. At another there were Tabasco sauce and real estate deals touted as even hotter than the sauce. The […]