The driver wanted for a Brooklyn hit-and-run that left a heroic young mayoral aide in a coma confessed to cops Wednesday, just hours after leaving a mental hospital.

A 12-hour adaptation of a Dostoyevsky novel will be among the highlights of Lincoln Center Festival 2010, running for 45 performances this summer.

First, the official invite sent to guests by Forest City Ratner. Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn's announcement March 11.

Gov. Paterson makes his point Monday at town hall meeting at Brooklyn Borough Hall.

More than a hundred firefighters battled a brush fire on Staten Island Tuesday afternoon.

The city's construction unions plan to hold a lunchtime rally at ground zero on Tuesday in an effort to break the deadlock between the Port Authority and the developer Larry A. Silverstein over building speculative office space on the 16-acre site.

Police say they are investigating a Brooklyn shooting that killed a 24-year-old man and injured a 10-year-old girl.

Will the magic of the Phantom strike twice for Andrew Lloyd Webber? The theater world was eagerly awaiting Tuesday's premiere in London of "Love Never Dies," the sequel to Lloyd Webber's global hit "Phantom of the Opera." "Phantom" is a tale of gothic romance set in the Paris Opera that has been seen by 100 million people around the world since its ...

A fitting tribute to the late author and activist Howard Zinn, The People Speak is also fascinating entertainment, featuring the poetry of a people read by a who's who of Hollywood.

Voters are so fed up with state government that a majority are embarrassed to even call themselves New Yorkers, a new poll says.

Cops in Brooklyn shot dead a man who pointed an imitation pistol at them in a Monday afternoon confrontation outside an elementary school.

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Dona t ever say that some of the female members of Brooklyna s city council delegation are soft: they arena t. There was a raucous public hearing last Wednesday evening at the Brooklyn Museum , that was aimed at getting the general view on the Metropolitan Transportation Authoritya s proposed service cuts in the next fiscal year; at this event, NYC ...

New York Crane owner James Lomma and employee Tibor Varganyi were charged with manslaughter in the 2008 Upper East Side crane collapse that left two workers dead.

Linda Fairstein started her career as a novelist by following that old adage about writing what you know.

A series of lush, fluid watercolor and graphite amalgamations of flora and fauna are at the heart of My Garden Pets, a major new installation by New York-based artist Emilie Clark at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden .

The recent spate of high-profile domestic violence cases sheds fresh light on the complexity that swirls around the issue.

A JOBLESS man despondent over his ill mother's costly medical bills posed as an apartment hunter to get inside a luxury high-rise - just so he could leap to his death from a 25th-floor balcony.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the state could raise nearly $1 billion a year by taxing sugary soft drinks.

Can't stand waiting to celebrate St. Patrick's Day on March 17? Well, you don't have to! This year, once again, the borough of Staten Island commemorates St.