A coalition of environmentalists and community groups is asking a federal court to order stronger pollution standards for trash incinerators — which they say would be critical to protecting public ...

Councilmembers' proposals would provide dog waste bags, establish outreach campaigns and clamp down on dog owners who don't scoop the poop.

A festering puddle has become a fixture in a Brooklyn crosswalk. Neighbors say if highlights the need for more drainage infrastructure.

Five unions representing half the LIRR workforce walked away from the negotiating table on Friday without reaching a deal, setting the stage for the first strike on the railroad since 1994.

Two pedestrians died and several others are being treated for injuries after a man lost control of his car during an alleged drunk-driving incident on the Upper West Side Friday evening. Police said a ...

Hantaviruses remain on the minds of  New York-area residents after a deadly outbreak aboard a foreign cruise ship and a suspected new infection in the Finger Lakes region. A rare strain of hantavirus ...

Long Island Rail Road and NJ Transit service to Penn Station remained severely strained Friday morning due to an ongoing transit meltdown caused by an East River tunnel fire a day earlier, officials ...

More than half the callers to the city’s domestic violence hotline are single people, but few are getting shelter.

MTA officials spent months last year warning that an Amtrak construction plan would spark service meltdowns at Penn Station. That prediction proved true Thursday after a fire in an East River train ...

The weather is warming up this weekend — and so are all sorts of events on the streets of New York City that will bring significant road closures. Among the largest of at least a dozen-odd major ...

Across her career, Lisa Yuskavage has remained unapologetically focused on painting the female body. Her portraits of women and girls are bold and colorful and often sensual or sexual. In her new ...

Amtrak officials said the blaze broke out in the "C interlocking," which directs LIRR trains into East River tunnels.