The operators of New York’s Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum have been cited for 16 violations of workplace health and safety standards. The coliseum is home to the New York Islanders hockey team. The operators of the coliseum face $88,000 in …
New York Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the federal government to investigate the rising number of overpass collisions involving trucks that are led onto roads where they don’t belong by GPS devices. Schumer says he will ask the U.S. …
The mayor of Niagara Falls, NY., says he may withhold fire and emergency services from the casino owned by the Seneca Nation of Indians if the tribe doesn’t pay the millions of dollars owed to the city. During comments made …
Eleven years after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, the new multibillion-dollar World Trade Center once again dominates the lower Manhattan skyline. Hundreds of construction workers are at the 16-acre site every day, and tourists snap thousands of photos of …
Gertrude Baker and her husband bought their cozy home in Owego in 1956. They raised three kids, befriended neighbors and weathered the occasional flood. But after Tropical Storm Lee bought five feet of water to her first floor last year, …
Director Julie Taymor has reached a deal in New York to settle a lawsuit she brought over the Broadway production of “Spider-Man.” The settlement was disclosed in a document filed Thursday in federal court in Manhattan. Settlement terms were not …
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is submitting claims to insurers and the federal government to recover $65 million in losses it suffered during Hurricane Irene last year. The MTA says winds and floods caused by the hurricane damaged its regional …
The parents of a 7-year-old girl killed in a July 4th boating accident off of Long Island made an emotional appeal Wednesday for mandatory training for all boaters, capacity limits and other changes during a New York state Senate committee …
Authorities are searching for the suspects who have stolen manhole covers from the streets of four Long Island, N.Y., communities. Highway Superintendent William Naughton says nine covers were removed in the past week from Greenlawn, Northport, Huntington and Huntington Station. …
A man who reported his father missing at a New York beach was charged Monday with insurance fraud and filing a false report several days after his father turned up alive in South Carolina, following a massive air and water …