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This is a screenshot from the New York Daily News report on theA 4 teens just arrested for the alleged robbery and "rape" of a 22-year-old woman in her Bed Stuy apartment .

Now you finally have a reason to belch one Queen song at the top of your lungs. New York's plans to let loose 10,000 free bikes on the streets are slowly taking shape.

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Month by month, the U.S. job market is regaining its health.So many jobs are being added that the unemployment rate has dropped for five straight months.

The 57th annual Viennese Opera Ball at the Waldorf Astoria was a fair full of random cast members.

Ibraham Qatabi stands among a dozen protesters Sunday across the street from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel where Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is staying in New York.

Trabajo is one of the most exciting and creative bands coming out of Brooklyn, NY.

Alexandra Schmid , a TSA agent was arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport on Wednesday evening, February 1, 2012 after she allegedly stole $5,000 in cash from a passenger's jacket during a security screening process, according to reports published on Thursday, February 2, 2012 by The Wall Street Journal , Fox News , Metro International , ... (more)

Staten Islanders aren't living as long as most residents in the other four boroughs -- or in the state as a whole.

Raised by her immigrant grandmother in Bedford-Stuyvesant in the 1980s, Laquita Mitchell sang gospel with her choir at the Cornerstone Baptist Church.

In the 1980s and '90s, the New York City Department of Sanitation gave Una Mulzac as many as 50 summonses - she did not count them because she had no intention of paying them - for refusing to sweep 18 inches into the street in front of her bookstore.

About a year ago Julia Marchesi, a 32-year-old documentary film producer, saw a picture in the New York Times of sculpture in Berlin made up of a carved out tree trunk filled with bookshelves.

A quartet of armed thugs that included a 13-year-old boy broke into a Brownsville apartment in broad daylight earlier this week and sexually assaulted a woman before fleeing with cash and electronics, police said.

If you were born after 1963, then this is the best time ever for you to live in Brooklyn.

Junior, a male great horned owl admired for his resemblance to Jack Nicholson, at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx last January.

Brooklyn designer Tonky created these RydeSafe Reflective Bike Decals that give your bike awesome, TRON-like visibility at night and in low-light, as the photo shows: Tonky put up as aA Kickstarter project A to produce, refine, and expand the product line.

The 850-square-foot boutique sits in what might be the best possible location for a glasses shop: next door to a book store.

Attention Ladies!A Is it real? Or an elaborate hipster prank? Another "flying humans"-style viral campaign for the Chronicle Movie ?A This flyer was spotted " in the most romantic of places: taped to the filthy tiled wall of a subway stop ." More specifically, the C line in Clinton Hill.A Approximate transcription:

A new interactive map tool, created by the Modi Research Group at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, reveals some unsurprising patterns about New York City's energy consumption.

When you think about MCs from Queens,NY one of the first names that comes to mind is Nasir Jones .A His style and lyrics were cultivated in the famous Queens Bridge Housing projects and for years he as served as a proud ambassador of the Q-Boro. Nas even returned to his old stomping grounds to record is latest video, "Nasty." However, Nas wasn't ... (more)