Hunts Point

Broken, rickety or partially missing portions of wooden boards at the end of subway platforms exist throughout the city's underground system, posing potential safety hazards to riders. At each of the nine random stations amNewYork examined in Brooklyn,...

Two men were killed and two others injured in shooting and stabbing attacks Sunday. In Harlem, Oumar Zongo, 23, of Yonkers, had stopped his black Honda Civic at a traffic light on Second Avenue at East 110th Street when a "light-colored sedan" with...

The $6 ferry from Riis Landing in the Rockaways to Pier 11 in Lower Manhattan, setting sail on Monday, is just the first step in expanding ferry routes around the city, the mayor said Monday. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Council Speaker Christine Quinn and...

Quiet, reserved and compact, the 27-year-old recruiter walks with a steady gait through the crowds of shoppers at the Smith Haven Mall, his presence striking only because of the crisp dress uniform he wears adorned with gleaming buttons and a row of...

I knew I was in love the first time I saw him. He barely had any hair and walked with a slight limp. When I looked into his brown eyes, he acted as if he wanted to crawl under a table. I always seem to go for the complicated ones. The workers at the...

Despite the efforts of police and advocate outreach teams, certain locations in the city remain problem areas for prostitution. Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York Queens Plaza Near Kennedy Airport in Queens Hunts Point in the Bronx Between 23rd and...

The Flower Market Association has been looking to move its shops away from north Chelsea since the late 1990s.  "We are constantly looking for a new home," said Cordelia Persen, the association's executive director. "We're looking for a site in Manhattan...

It was one of the first calls of the day: a baby alligator -- the man-eating beast of famous New York City sewer lore -- abandoned on Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx.. Mike Pastore, just wrapping up a report of a rotweiller struck by a car in South Ozone...

An illegal truck on the westbound side of the Jackie Robinson Parkway has snarled traffic this morning. Traffic is extremely slow on the Grand Central Parkway from Exit 23 (Cross Island Expressway) west to Exit 15 (Queens Boulevard), where the Jackie...

TUESDAY MIKE BLOOMBERG 12 a.m. — Visits Bellevue Hospital emergency room; 462 First Ave. 1 a.m. — Visits Neptune Diner; 31-05 Astoria Blvd., Queens. 2 a.m. — Visits the 114th Precinct; 34-16 Astoria Blvd., Queens. 3 a.m. — Bowls at Whitestone...

By the time a brash young councilman named Fernando Ferrer was ushered in as Bronx borough president in 1987, the Bronx had become a symbol of urban decay and corruption. Scarred by hundreds of burnt-out buildings and garbage-strewn vacant lots, it was...

Manny Villar is living the pinched lifestyle of the average New Yorker. With his annual income of $40,000 barely sufficient to support a family of three, Villar budgets creatively and makes more than a few financial sacrifices. A few months ago, he...