New York City police say they've arrested a man who was caught on video choking an 85-year-old woman in a building elevator and stealing her money and cane.

The nation's biggest kosher supermarket opened in Brooklyn this week, hoping to bring a Trader Joe's or Whole Foods-style experience to the city's tens of thousands of observant Jews.

State Education Commissioner Richard Mills says 19 New York schools have been labeled ``persistently dangerous'' this year, down from 27 last year.

A New York woman whose three children were stuck in Georgia as Russian bombs fell is breathing a huge sigh of relief: The youngsters are on their way home.

A program to pay students in some New York City high schools up to $1,000 for passing Advanced Placement tests has shown mixed results.

Serbian authorities have sought to persuade a Serb wanted on assault charges in upstate New York to return there voluntarily to face justice, but he refuses to go, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Cops are on the hunt for a sexual predator in Brooklyn. The man is wanted in two attacks - a year apart, police said.

Officials say identity thieves are feeding off New York City's vulnerable by stealing their food stamps.

A 91-year-old Brooklyn man suffering from dementia is reported in good condition after spending nearly 16 hours in the woods of upstate New York.

A man caught on video choking an 85-year-old woman in a building elevator and stealing her money and cane is believed to be responsible for a string of assaults on older victims in Brooklyn, police said Tuesday.

A brownstone made famous by a 1987 romantic comedy starring Cher and Nicolas Cage has sold for nearly $4 million.

Gunfire erupted on a New York City bus in Brooklyn Monday night. The bus was near Nostrand Avenue and Avenue Y in the Sheepshead Bay section when an argument broke out between the shooter and another passenger, witnesses said. It was followed by shots fired shortly after.

A 5-year-old Williamsburg boy was buried Tuesday afternoon -- hours after he fell 10 stories down an elevator shaft on his way to school.
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A group of New York City bus workers claim in a lawsuit that diesel exhaust from idling buses exposed them to severe illnesses, including lung and throat cancer.

The reputed acting boss of the Gambino organized crime family has been put behind bars for two years as part of a plea deal.

Police are hoping surveillance video will help them find the person who choked and robbed an 85-year-old woman inside a Brooklyn elevator last Thursday.
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A turtle in a Brooklyn pet store is causing customers to take a second look, at its second head. Pet store owner Sean Casey got the unusual animal from a man in Florida, who was looking for help when its health went downhill.

A federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of a man dubbed the "S&M Svengali" and ordered a retrial in a sensational case that involved mutilation and extreme humiliation.

The agency that oversees New York City's bridges and tunnels is replacing and upgrading the banner-like electronic signs it uses to advise and direct motorists.

The father of a 3-year-old Brooklyn girl has been charged with her murder, police said.

New York City lawmakers are proposing to require police to give quarterly reports on the number of student arrests and safety issues in the nation's biggest school system.

A New York man has pleaded guilty to wire fraud for swindling an Iowa woman out of $200,000 in a telephone sweepstakes scam.

A Brooklyn businessman turned a profit renting parking spaces in East New York. However, it turns out the land wasn't his to rent.

A distraught grandmother went to court Tuesday for the arraignment of the Brooklyn man accused of killing her granddaughter.

The family of a Stuyvesant High School student paralyzed after the van crash during a school trip, announced a lawsuit Tuesday against Ford Motor Company, New York City and the Board of Education for $300 million.

Firefighters say they rescued a man who plunged 10 feet after falling through a subway grate in Brooklyn.

A lieutenant fatally shot a driver in East Flatbush on Thursday who was trying to escape from a traffic stop, police said.

People who get groped on crowded subway trains will be encouraged to report it as part of an anti-groping campaign being launched by New York City Transit next month.

The family of a Grammy-nominated gospel singer critically injured in a car crash that killed his wife and grandson made an appeal Tuesday for donations to help pay for his medical care.

Breast-feeding advocates boarded an A train on Friday for a ride from the Bronx to Brooklyn to call attention to a mother's right to nurse her baby.

Authorities are now seeking to arrest a woman they originally said was kidnapped by the suspect in a fatal stabbing and forced to flee from Massachusetts to New York with their four young children.

There's a call for more lifeguards at the local beaches after several swimmers drowned. Divers searched off Coney Island on Sunday but couldn't find a 10-year-old girl, one of three swimmers still missing from powerful ocean currents at area beaches over the weekend.  Four other people drowned at local beaches Friday and Saturday, authorities said.

The Rev. Timothy Wright, the Grammy-nominated gospel singer from Brooklyn, remains in critical condition at a Pennsylvania hospital three weeks after a car crash killed his wife and grandson.

A badly decomposed body was found Friday night on the Long Island Rail Road tracks under Ocean Avenue between Avenues H and I in Midwood, Brooklyn.

New York City Transit wants to catch graffiti artists in the act -- and on camera.