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The star attraction of the Bronx Zoo hasn't been seen since July. The zoo says she's fine. Animal rights activists are not so sure. 'Nothing is wrong with Happy.' The [...]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would invade refugee-packed Rafah, but was drafting a plan to help people get out of harm's way. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, [...]

The storm's victims included at least 15 people in New York State and 23 in New Jersey. Some died as waters inundated their basement homes. At 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Mingma [...]

ACCRA, Ghana -- At dawn on a recent Tuesday, 18-year-old Jane Newornu pulled on her blue gingham school uniform, stuffed her books into her knapsack and grabbed a banana as [...]

A worker at Belmont Park racetrack has died in what health officials believe may be a rare case of hantavirus in New York State. The worker, whose name has not [...]

President Trump is set to return to his own home Sunday for the first time since taking office, to sleep in his own bed at his triplex apartment atop Trump [...]

Donald J. Trump has spent his young presidency in the White House -- so far. But Mr. Trump has said he also wants to spend time in his Manhattan penthouse, [...]

A lush community garden in East New York, Brooklyn, which was locked after the authorities discovered marijuana plants growing among the stone fruit trees and collard greens, will reopen possibly [...]

DUBLIN, Calif. -- On a typical hard-hat tour of a major municipal construction project, city officials extol the venture's expansiveness and rave about how many citizens will benefit. But this [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDSpongeBob SquarePants and Snoopy lay on their bellies on the pavement of West 77th Street in Manhattan on Wednesday evening, the giant balloons netted and tethered to the ground. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIt is easy to drive past Willets Point, the 62-acre tangle of auto shops, car parts and grease-covered mechanics tinkering with automobiles, that sits hard by the Unisphere of [...]

When Ilir Topalli gets that yearly Christmas card from the management of the small Upper East Side building where he has lived for 10 years, the one that gently nudges [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBORDENTOWN, N.J. -- At the far end of an enormous hangar, used cars rolled up one by one to the auction block. They had been buffed to a shine, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWHEN the Metropolitan Transportation Authority decided to get rid of a colony of pigeons that roosted under the elevated subway that runs down the middle of Roosevelt Avenue in [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe British have a history of being unlucky on American shores, and in the winter of 1931, Winston S. Churchill was no exception. Alighting from a cab on Fifth [...]

A red light shines at the apex of a weathered pavilion in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, a relic from the 1964 World's Fair, warning aircraft to steer clear of the decrepit [...]

IN the steamy depths of Pennsylvania Station, just before 5 p.m. on a summer Friday, dozens of people stand with their chins tilted skyward. Sweat drips down the backs of [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED It has been nearly a quarter-century since Roy Fox had a regular salary. He is not a lottery winner or the recipient of some grand family fortune. He [...]

It is a well-established fact in Jackson Heights, Queens, that the moving men of La Noventa and the moving men of La Ciento y Tres do not mix. For more [...]

Every summer for the past few decades, Shellbank Basin in Howard Beach, Queens, is transformed into a post-apocalyptic scene of marine carnage: thousands of baitfish and the fish that prey [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Oil and water. Cats and dogs. Stilettos and subway grates. Just about any of those mix better than skateboarders and fashion folk, two disparate demographic groups thrown together [...]

Riders on New Jersey Transit may face crowded trains on Wednesday morning in the aftermath of a derailment that disrupted service on Tuesday. Other service in and out of Pennsylvania [...]

There was a pagoda in the Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday night, at least at first glance. The sandstone Temple of Dendur was bathed in [...]

Sitting at a dining room table festooned with papers, colored folders and laptop and iPad screens in his Upper West Side apartment, Benji Sternberg, 13, rattled off correct answers to [...]

Little hot dogs were passed around on platters while real dogs were petted on the red carpet. At the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' young benefactors' [...]

To the arresting officers, they were ''perps'' or ''skells.'' To the lawyers in the room, they were ''defendants'' or ''clients.'' To some members of the audience on Thursday night, they [...]

AFTER a day by the surf in Daytona Beach, Fla., last year, Travis Erickson, 21, discovered that his cellphone had been either stolen or lost in the sand. He also [...]

Most days, a handful of devoted fans pay their respects in a tiny museum here dedicated to the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which has been run across Alaska's punishing [...]

Many seaside towns make much of their location. Their shops are gussied up with nautical decor -- rigging, buoys, mounted fish -- and their restaurants often have the word 'captain' […]

WHEN times were good, Daniel Marks could make $1,700 a week at his job selling luxury men's wear. But starting in January, not even his brightest smile could sell a […]