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Three new envelopes containing suspicious white powder were sent to New York City banks and news organizations on Tuesday, along with notes suggesting the sender sympathizes with the Occupy Wall Street's Day of May 1 protests, police said.

Public School 30 and Public School 179 are about as alike as two schools can be. They are two blocks apart in the South Bronx. Both are 98 percent black and Latino. At P.S. 30, 97 percent of the children qualify for subsidized lunches; at P.S. 179, 93 percent.

In a city understandably wary of low-flying aircraft, New Yorkers and tourists alike watched with joy and excitement Friday as space shuttle Enterprise sailed over the skyline on its final flight before it becomes a museum piece....

By one account, the moment of truth for three former high school classmates from Queens came as they sat in a car outside a neighborhood mosque with their militant religious views festering....

Jin Xing was the first person to have a sex change operation in China and go public with it. Seventeen years later, she’s become a cultural icon in China and the government even uses her as an unofficial ambassador of the arts.

Someone used her birth certificate to arrange bogus marriages to at least three men from other countries.

Nick Cannon has quit his morning radio show over serious concerns about his health. The 31-year-old actor will no longer host “Rollin with Nick Cannon” on New York City radio station 92.3 NOW. On the show Wednesday, Cannon said he was hospitalized over the weekend after blood clots were discovered in his lungs. Doctors also found out a ventricle in his heart was enlarged.

The family of a Russian billionaire has bought a New York City penthouse apartment for $88 million....

A Malaysian company's plan to build a $4 billion convention center and big-time casino on the outskirts of New York City could be the biggest shot fired yet in a tourism arms race that has seen ...

Police say a woman burned to death in the elevator of her New York City apartment building after a man ambushed her, sprayed her with liquid and set her afire with a Molotov cocktail.