A lawsuit accuses Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington of trashing a New York City loft that she leased from a documentary filmmaker. Huffington calls the allegations false. Filmmaker Eric Steel filed the suit in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday. It …
A novel endeavor to make flooded homes habitable after Superstorm Sandy is wrapping up after repairs to more than 20,000 houses and apartments, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday. As officials faced the challenge of housing thousands of displaced people in …
The number of New York City traffic fatalities is on the rise. Officials say 274 people died in traffic-related deaths in 2012. That’s up from 245 a year earlier and the most since 2008. Speeding accounted for about 30 percent …
A baby delivered prematurely after his parents were killed in a New York City hit-and-run accident died Monday, a community spokesman said, while the search for the driver who fled on foot narrowed in. The infant had been in serious …
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has released new advisory maps for Manhattan that include the World Trade Center site in the zone seen as most at risk for flooding during a powerful coastal storm. The maps released this week were …
New York City taxi inspectors seized 5,776 illegal livery cars last year. The Daily News says that’s more than triple the number confiscated the previous year. The chairman of the Taxi and Limousine Commission says the rogue drivers could have …
Researchers will conduct a rare – if not unprecedented – large-scale earthquake simulation to determine how vulnerable New York’s unreinforced masonry buildings (row houses) are to temblors. Designed to imitate the 2011 Virginia quake that rattled the East Coast, the …
A crane operator and a contractor didn’t inspect equipment, failed to take proper precautions and ran the rig unsafely before it collapsed while building a New York City apartment tower and injured seven construction workers, officials said Wednesday. Crane operator …
The family of a New York City advertising executive who was crushed to death in an elevator accident in 2011 has sued the repair company. The suit was filed by Suzanne Hart’s father, Alex Hart, against Transel Elevator and Electric. …
New York City lawmakers are looking to crack down on criminals who exploit disasters to enrich themselves through frauds, burglary or other schemes. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and several colleagues said Monday they planned to introduce a proposal on …