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William J. LeMessurier, a structural engineer who became a hero to other structural engineers when he detected and repaired a potentially catastrophic flaw in the Citicorp building in Manhattan, died […]

The posting on Craigslist was vague, something about 'set dressing' and a movie company and a sale. Cash only. But the two words circulating among the Internet cognoscenti, could not […]

The governors of New York and New Jersey are seeking an end to most secret meetings and want greater disclosure on how contracts are awarded at the powerful agency that […]

The city's Health Department said late last night that it was urgently contacting 4,500 patients treated by a Manhattan doctor after the discovery that three of them were found to [...]

A group of philanthropists led by Joan and Sanford I. Weill plans to announce today that it has pledged $400 million to build research centers and to recruit senior scientists […]

The curtain rises just before 6:30 p.m. But the audience takes its time showing up. On Friday night, inside Room 1-C of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater building, 19 […]

Shortly after 3 p.m., on May 12, 2005, a 150-foot section of a nearly century-old retaining wall high above the Henry Hudson Parkway in Manhattan gave way in a thundering […]

There is no more of the best-selling baked ham, which takes two and a half weeks to cure and 24 hours to smoke in the shop's own smoke pits, and […]

Some have left their heart there. Others love it in the springtime. Not a few -- maybe most -- hold its eating contests, roller coaster and skeeball in high regard. […]

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, in unusually pointed and broad language, criticized Congress yesterday for parts of a comprehensive immigration bill now being debated in the Senate. Speaking after a Memorial […]

The roues and libertines of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, rarely rise before noon on the weekends, or so their reputation goes. Yet at 10 a.m. yesterday there were a dozen hearty and […]

It was noon yesterday, far from the cocktail hour. The assignment was the second annual cocktail throwdown, 'The Sidewalk Cafe Drink Mix-Off.' The mix-off was refereed, like an academic journal […]

There was a time -- before the automobile, the airplane and the rocket -- when the transcontinental train was rich with romance, a miracle emerging from tons of steam and […]

Kate Moss was discovered by a modeling scout as she waited for a plane at Kennedy International Airport. Twiggy was noticed in a suburban London hair salon. Claudia Schiffer began […]

Like any father, Roberto A. Rivera-Soto loves his son and does not want him to get hurt. But Mr. Rivera-Soto is a New Jersey Supreme Court justice, and he now […]

After five years of contention, city officials and families of those killed in the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in the Rockaways have agreed on where to put hundreds […]

A day laborer from Ecuador was killed yesterday when an eight-foot-deep trench collapsed at a Brooklyn elementary school, burying him under hundreds of cubic yards of dirt, officials and his […]

In the universe of boy bands of the 1980s, Puerto Rico's Menudo was particularly ruthless. If a boy grew too tall, he was gone; when a boy's voice grew too […]

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, speaking in forceful and personal terms, went yesterday to a neighborhood plagued by high asthma rates to argue for his sweeping plan to reduce the city's [...]

It has nothing to do with Berlin during the Cold War, but the story of 'The Wall,' an enormous artwork in Lower Manhattan, is, in its own way, an epic […]

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single person in New York in possession of a sunlit day must be in want of a companion. Just ask Eric Jacobov, […]

A 12-foot-long whale that had surfaced and frolicked near the mouth of the Gowanus Canal on Tuesday, delighting and surprising even the most hardened of Brooklyn residents, died yesterday, officials […]

AS the tax deadline looms tonight, there are those who think that the pronouncements of the Internal Revenue Service might as well be declaimed in Greek. But consider the fix […]

FOR most readers of the city's newspapers, the tales are bitter, if familiar: immigrant owner of bodega is robbed, or killed, often for petty cash. A family grieves. But behind […]

Yesterday, on a street in Times Square, there were no azaleas or Spanish moss, no hot and fetid air, no maligned wives in slips or coarse husbands in torn T-shirts, […]

The principal suspect in a fatal shooting near Kennedy International Airport was taken into custody without incident yesterday in Richmond, Va., and confessed to the shooting, the Richmond police said. […]

Jon S. Corzine, the governor of New Jersey, has agreed to let two outside ethics advisers review whether his former romantic relationship with the head of a leading state workers' […]

The bidding yesterday lasted less than four minutes. The rare Stradivarius violin went for a high -- but not a record -- price of $2.4 million. There was a stirring […]

An off-duty New York City police officer was shot in the hand during a possible attempted robbery early yesterday, the Nassau County police said. The 25-year-old officer, whom the Nassau […]

It was a special kind of opening day yesterday. But there was no Carl Pavano, no Tom Glavine, no peanuts, no Cracker Jack, no opening pitch. There was, instead, an […]

When Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy, started making violins in the 1660s, Newton had not yet discovered the principles of modern physics and the first piano had not yet been […]

A large portion of a five-story apartment building under renovation in East Harlem collapsed in a dusty roar yesterday, disrupting subway and Metro-North service in Upper Manhattan and forcing the […]

Two New Jersey men said to be members of the Grape Street Crips gang in Newark were indicted on charges of severely beating an informant who was cooperating with the […]

First there was a cry, then a murmur, and finally a swoon. Naomi Campbell, the millionaire fashion model, emerged yesterday from a grimy Department of Sanitation garage in a floor-length […]

When a Web site called 'Uncivil Servants' went live last week, the site's operator didn't know there was a 'bklyncop1' out there, the screen name of someone who identifies himself […]

The cardinal seemed to strike an unusually solemn note for a St. Patrick's Day. In his homily yesterday morning at a special Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Cardinal Edward Egan […]

The Miss America organization said yesterday that it had moved the Miss New York competition from Watertown, near the Canadian border, where it had been held since 1982, to Huntington, […]

This is a small tale of the city, of a worried mother and of her new son, born ill. No one has done anything wrong in this story, not the [...]

On a typical night on the Upper West Side, Jian Xie, 23, a bicycle deliveryman, can pedal 80 blocks or more roundtrip to deliver a single order of Vietnamese food. […]

In 1923, John W. Campbell, a millionaire American financier, built a big corner office resembling a 13th-century Florentine palazzo, a whim not unusual in the age of Gatsby, save for […]

A man and a woman urgently sought by city health officials on Wednesday came forward yesterday and indicated that they had not been exposed to rabies, which is invariably fatal [...]

City health officials said yesterday that they were urgently looking for a man and a woman who dropped off a sick raccoon, which later tested positive for rabies, at an [...]

Two days after the Academy Awards, as many boldface names still basked in glory, some of their way-behind-the-scenes colleagues testified at a forum in Midtown Manhattan about life in the […]

Seven philanthropies are announcing today that they will contribute more than $4.3 million to help treat uninsured workers and residents who developed serious illnesses after the Sept. 11 attack on [...]

Peter Fenton, 43, who is of English and Dutch heritage and grew up in South Africa, was dressed in a blue Chinese man's shirt. He was holding his adopted daughter, [...]

After a small dog was apparently electrocuted while walking on an icy manhole cover in Downtown Manhattan on Wednesday, suspicion automatically fell on Consolidated Edison. It seemed to be the […]

A small dog being walked along a downtown sidewalk yesterday was apparently electrocuted moments after crossing an icy manhole cover, according to a veterinarian who examined the animal after a […]

A top utility official in New Brunswick, N.J., shot himself to death after learning that federal prosecutors had subpoenaed his personal and official records, the authorities said yesterday. The official, […]

'Who's out?' said the voice in the darkness, slurring his words. He sounded slow-witted. 'Who's out?' he cried, using street argot to plead for sellers of crack cocaine. Shavohnna Brisco, […]

Three armed and masked men burst into a house in Suffolk County Friday night, and by the time the shooting was over, one resident was dead and at least one […]