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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s overture to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was rejected, but it may signal his dissatisfaction with the current candidates.

A tourist's snapshot of a New York City police officer giving new boots to a barefoot homeless man in Times Square has created an online sensation. Jennifer Foster, a tourist from Florence, Ariz., took a cellphone picture of Officer Larry DePrimo giving the man the all-weather boots and socks on a frigid night in Times Square on Nov. 14.

Actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested Thursday after police said she hit a woman during an argument at a New York City nightclub.

A New York City nanny charged with killing two young children in her care last month pleads not guilty from a hospital bed.

A transit bus hit a pedestrian and then slammed into a suburban New York City house, killing a boy who was inside.

Superstorm Sandy ran up a $42 billion bill on New York and the state and New York City congressional leaders are preparing big requests for federal disaster aid....

A damaged home tilts to one side along the beach in the Belle Harbor section of the Queens, New York, in the wake of Sandy.

Going once, going twice ... sold for $43 million. Wednesday night in New York City, Christie's auctioned off Claude Monet's "Nympheas" and two other paintings inherited by the Hackley School for a combined total of more than $50 million.

The effort to reopen schools shut by Hurricane Sandy presented officials with a tangled puzzle and New York City’s 1.1 million students with a drastically altered landscape... Cots lined the hallways, and toilets were limited or clogged, so some evacuees went to the bathroom on the floor. Volunteers, gagging at air made more fetid by unwashed bodies, took to wearing masks. “We gave them wipes,” a volunteer said, “but there’s only so much you can do with wipes.”

Sunday's New York City marathon has been called off in the aftermath of the super storm Sandy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announces.