Garbage trucks, hulking military vehicles and mud-caked cars move slowly through a Staten Island waterfront neighborhood still reeling from Superstorm Sandy’s storm surge. Then comes an outlier: a spotless SUV with three passengers peering out windows at a mangled home …
The aftermath of super storm Sandy is costing New York City up to $200 million a day in permanently lost economic activity, including everything from the sale of pizza slices to corporate mergers and other Wall Street deals, the city’s …
Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City, updated residents on the city’s response to Hurricane Sandy in a speech delivered this morning at the Office of Emergency Management in Downtown Brooklyn, N.Y. “We’re joined by Senator Chuck Schumer and …
New York City evacuated neighbors of a nearly completed, 90-story luxury apartment building on Monday after the top of a construction crane collapsed in high winds, prompting fears the crane’s boom could crash to the ground. With the city bracing …
New York City has agreed to pay $17,500 to a Brooklyn family of a toddler scorched by playground equipment. The family of Paula Spolar had charged that irresponsible design at the Brooklyn Bridge Park resulted in their 1-year-old daughter suffering …
The latest management report from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg shows there were 291 citywide traffic fatalities for the fiscal year that ended June 30. It’s up 23.3 percent from the year before when there were 236 traffic fatalities. …
The number of New York City traffic fatalities is on the rise. A report from the office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg shows that 115 city motorists and passengers died in traffic incidents last fiscal year – up 47 percent from …
New York City transportation officials want passengers to watch out for bicyclists when opening taxi doors. They’re expanding a safety campaign called “LOOK!” Window stickers are being made available to the city’s 13,000 yellow cabs. The reminders also will appear …
Transit officials have come up with new safety measures as the result of a controlled blast last month that sent rocks flying into Manhattan streets. Construction workers were blasting on Aug. 21 to create an escalator for the planned Second …
New York City fire marshals say an arsonist set 13 fires in five months, including a blaze at a laundry in Queens where more than a dozen firefighters were injured. Thien Dinh was arrested Friday on charges of arson, reckless …