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New York City is testing its first playground for adults, at Macombs Dam Park in the Bronx, hoping it will succeed where treadmills have failed in combating rising rates of obesity.

Nearly half of recently retired officers in a survey said they had “personal knowledge” of crime-report manipulation, but the Police Department questioned the study’s methodology.

San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker is suing a New York City club and its operators for $20 million over a scratched cornea he says he suffered during a fight involving singer Chris Brown and members of hip-hop star Drake's entourage....

Now that the city will allow drivers to transfer the remaining time on Muni-Meter receipts for reuse at any parking space in the city, parking time is about to hit the open market.

New York City plans to ban the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks in an effort to combat obesity.

New York City is seeking to overtake Silicon Valley as the nation's top technological hub, putting its hopes in a $2 billion research campus planned for an island on the East River... The idea is to create an applied-sciences university where engineers are also trained as entrepreneurs from day one. Proponents say New York, home to powerful global companies and now exploding with technological startups, could shift this sector into top gear if the latest findings went straight into new businesses.

In many parts of the country, a million bucks will buy you a mansion. In New York City, you can get a 12-foot by 23-foot slab of concrete. Yes, Manhattan's first $1 million parking space is scheduled to go on the market this fall.

New York City police are seeking the public's help finding a group of a dozen girls they say assaulted two other girls on a subway train.

The mystery began with a heart attack, a man with a past, and a bag of money that federal authorities now want to keep.

It's a scream that's still reverberating around the world. One of the most iconic images in art history - Edvard Munch's "The Scream" - has become the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. During an intense 12 minutes, the 1895 artwork - a modern symbol of human anxiety - was sold at Sotheby's in New York City on Wednesday for a record $119,922,500. Neither the buyer's name nor any details about the buyer was released.