Starting in New York and Chicago, Uber says its drivers will deliver you grub wherever you are in 10 minutes or less.

–New York City bans the running of credit checks on job applicants http://www.thenation.com/blog/204713/new-york-city-just-outlawed-running-credit-checks-job-applicants

Liberty Island and the Statue Of Liberty are currently being evacuated.

Two Syracuse nonprofit groups have teamed up to build tiny homes for the homeless this summer on the city's South Side. Using proceeds from this year's Crawfish Festival on May 2 in Clinton Square, the volunteers hope to construct four residences, each with just 250 square feet of living space. The building site has not been locked up, but organizers hope to acquire vacant land for the project near the corner of South Avenue and West Kennedy Street.

By Vince DiMiceli Tompkinsville Tom Wrobleski's tirade against a plan to have motorists help pay for the city's transportation needs

The ubiquitous breakfast sandwich that powers New York.

Nice doormen finish last. Ralph Body was booted from a luxe Long Island City apartment building — for being too accommodating to its well-heeled tenants, he told The Post. Body, 41, said he “gave his life” to the glimmering Queens tower called 27 on 27th ever since it opened two years ago a few blocks from the East River. He didn’t just hold the door. He did anything and everything residents asked him to do...

At first, it sounds like an unresolvable contradiction: a meal that will set you back $75, and which consists almost entirely of garbage. It begins to make sense, though, once you begin to consider how much of what we see as disposable actually has value. Or can have value, in the hands of the right person. Stepping up to the challenge is Dan Barber, the chef and co-owner of Manhattan’s Blue Hill, who transformed the high-end restaurant, for two weeks only, into wastED...

Jack Maple was a New York City cop with champagne taste and a beer wallet. When he fell for the swank charms of the Plaza Hotel, his life began to unravel. Richard Price's latest novel, The Whites, written under the pseudonym Harry Brandt, is getting rave reviews. Last week, Price was asked by The New York Times about his favorite New York stories. The first magazine piece he mentioned was “The Cop Who Loved The Oak Bar,” by The Daily Beast's own Michael Daly.

Amazon isn’t playing around. A spokeswoman said Thursday that the e-commerce giant has expanded its Prime Now same-day delivery service out of Manhattan for the first time and into select neighborhoods in Brooklyn. The service allows Amazon Prime subscribers in neighborhoods such as Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene and Prospect Heights to get free delivery on a limited selection of goods within two hours of ordering. Prime Now also offers an $8, one-hour option...

A former prosecutor enters the flawed probation system he had once defended.

So a story in Businessweek caught my eye the other day. It discussed NYC taxi rider tipping habits and concluded that riders usually tip between 20% and 25% using the histogram below...

Thirteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attack, the resurrected World Trade Center is again opening for business - marking an emotional milestone for both New Yorkers and the nation. Publishing giant Conde Nast will start moving on Monday into One World Trade Center, a 104-story, $3.9 billion skyscraper that dominates the Manhattan skyline.

Rendering by AvoidObvious | Spector Group A new 16-story residential sliver tower will squeeze its way skyward from a narrow lot at 10 West 17th Street, situated just a block from foodie-hub Union

Daniyar Nazarbayev, the ultra-rich nephew of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, is now leasing his equally ultra-luxurious four-bedroom at The Plaza Hotel for $55,000 a month, reports the N

It's where the Waldorf salad was invented; it was the first hotel to offer room service; and it has its own railway platform to Grand Central, large enough to fit FDR's car. The historic tidbits about

Car-owing New Yorkers can probably recite year-round alternative-side parking laws on cue, but most will also tell you how they loathe circling their block for 20 minutes, tracking which days to stay

Manhattan Central Booking is located at Manhattan Criminal Court at 100 Centre Street between White Street and Leonard Street. Train Directions to Manhattan

The hard, fascinating life of a 52-year-old pizza delivery guy