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Tabloid covers and a crowd of paparazzi didn't stop Anthony Weiner from hitting the streets Thursday morning to kick off his mayoral campaign.

The disgraced congressman greeted New Yorkers outside the 125th Street subway station at St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem.

Weiner, 48, who announced his campaign Wednesday with a video where he asked New Yorkers to look beyond the lewd 2011 picture...

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The kickoff to summer may be a soggy one, as the city could be in for "significant rainfall" this Memorial Day weekend.

The storm that rocked the Midwest this week is on a direct course for New England, but the city may see some of the worst of it, according...

After years of dormancy, a copy of the Bill of Rights will be on view in the Big Apple, but New Yorkers are going to have to wait awhile and eventually share it with our Philly counterparts.

Under the arrangement library administrators made with the Pennsylvania government Wednesday, the document will on display at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia starting in 2014 and three...

A suspect wanted in the attack of a gay man in the East Village turned himself in Wednesday.

Gornell Roman, 39, surrendered to cops at the 41st Precinct in the Bronx late Tuesday night, just hours after Police Commissioner Ray Kelly identified him as the one who allegedly attacked Dan Contarino Monday night.

Kelly said Roman, who was awaiting arraignment on assault as a hate crime charges...

Experts say Anthony Weiner's road to City Hall is a tortuous one.

The newest Democratic candidate for mayor will have to convince voters to listen to his message, instead of focusing on how he lied about his sexting proclivities when they accidentally became public. Weiner resigned from Congress in June 2011 amid the Twitter scandal.

"People are going to vote for you based on what...

Damaged by Superstorm Sandy, Nathan's Famous flagship restaurant in Coney Island will officially reopen Thursday.

The storm put the restaurant out of business for seven months when it filled Nathan's, on the corner of Surf and Stillwell avenues, with six feet of water.

"That was the first time an event occurred that caused the closing of Nathan's," Wayne Norbitz, president and COO of...

Three men have been arrested and three more are being sought in the ransom kidnapping of a Woodside accountant who was held in a Long Island City warehouse for 32 days as his tormenters allegedly burned him with acid, punched out his teeth, beat him and threatened to cut off his fingers.

Pedro Portugal, 52, was abducted from Jackson Heights April 18 and taken to a warehouse at 38-09 43rd Ave....

A pharmacy in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn was a one-stop shop for a stunning array of illegal drugs and guns and also the source of a Medicaid fraud that attempted to bilk the system for $9,000 in phony prescriptions, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney.

Five people, three of them employees of Malik Pharmacy at 2981 Fulton St., were arrested Monday as a result of the six-month investigation....

While a rebuilt World Trade Center site nears its debut as one of the world's most important and iconic business districts, a critical controversy is brewing. How much security is too much?

The tower at 4 World Trade Center should be finished this year, its 72 floors filled mostly with offices and a smattering of retail. And 1 World Trade Center should open in 2014 with 104 floors of office...

Oh my God, he's running.

Even after a Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday shows more people are against his candidacy than for it. Even after the Clintons said they won't endorse him.

And, worst of all, even after Weiner said it's "possible" that more of his sexting photos are still out in cyberspace, and other women may come forward.

Oy.

Forgive me, Anthony, but...