Despite a court injunction ordering them to return to work, aroused Sanitation Department workers continued yesterday’s walkout into the night. A department spokesman said the stoppage was “almost 100%” effective. He added that none of the members of the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association showed up at any of the department’s garages throughout the five boroughs.

Since 1938 newborn babies in Finland have been sleeping in cardboard boxes supplied by the government.

First responders resuscitated rapper DMX early Tuesday after the erstwhile hip hop star was found unresponsive on the ground next to a car in a hotel parking lot, his attorney says.

Watch New Yorkers navigate the snow in 1902.

Roughly 5,000 kids and adults filled a Harlem research center Saturday for a festival celebrating black comic books.

At the end of 2015, 34 community gardens in New York City were protected from destruction. Behind the formation of several of these gardens on vacant publicly-owned land was 596 Acres, a grassroots nonprofit using design and technology for greenspace advocacy.

There are over 250 art projects lodged in the transit infrastructure of New York City. Some are garish or grand mosaics that cover whole subway tunnels, others you might walk by for years without recognition.

Manhattan is in the midst of an unprecedented boom in tall buildings. Before 2004, Manhattan was home to 28 skyscrapers 700 feet and taller. Since then, an additional 13 have been built, 15 are under construction, and 19 are proposed—47 more in all. These additions are rapidly—and radically—changing the skyline.

A SUV in New York rolls down a hill and hits me. Driver proceeds to get out and claim I rear ended him, until I tell him I have a camera.

New Yorkers boarding buses and subway trains were surprised with a wall of Axis Powers propaganda, courtesy of Amazon, on Monday. The e-commerce giant is promoting its new show Man in the High Castle — an alternate-history period piece that takes place in an America ruled by Nazi Germany and imperial Japan — by blanketing symbols of the two fascist governments across buses, subway trains and online ads, as first reported by Gothamist.

The son of a New York mob boss has given Islamic State a stark warning, saying if they are planning any attacks in New York, they will have to contend with the Sicilian mafia. The notorious crime syndicate say they want to do their bit to protect locals.

Two-thirds of residents say they live in the "greatest city in the world," yet many of those people are barely getting by.

There are people who stand every morning outside the Carroll Street station in Brooklyn staring dead-eyed into the middle distance. They stand still in ones and twos, clearly strangers to one another, mostly quiet, as though they’d stopped on their way to work to take note of some spectacular disaster in the sky. But you look in the general direction they’re all looking and there’s nothing there.

When you’re away from your neighborhood bank in New York City and need cash, you’re going to have to dig deep.

The city's complaint hotline is on pace for a record year of rat calls, exceeding the more than 24,000 over each of the last two years.

This week we found out that as many as 90 percent of people killed by US drones weren’t the intended targets, thanks to a ‘second Snowden’ who leaked a motherload of documents to The Intercept. The Democratic presidential candidates discussed Edward Snowden during the Democratic presidential debate, but only long-shot candidate Lincoln Chafee said he would welcome him home without any charges. French hackers showed they can remotely...

Police hope a farm device used to feed cattle will help corral a cow that has been on the loose for months in a Central New York town. Officers in New Hartford have put feed in a headlock feeder and placed the device along a road outside Utica where the rogue cow has been spotted. Headlock feeders have locking mechanisms that trap a cow's head while it's feeding.

A summary of traffic changes from the pope's visit to New York later this week

School custodians are cleaning up — in the hallways and in their paychecks — because the city doesn’t want to hire enough of them. Custodians took home an average pay of $109,467 in the 2013-14 school year — and 634 of the city’s 799 custodians earned more than $100,000 in salary and overtime during that time, city payroll records show. That’s because of the city’s 1,500 school buildings, 238 have...

Enter the imposition of an "enhanced" driver's license as part of the federal Real ID Act of 2005.