Borough Park residents called for everything from more free Wi-Fi in parks to new bus shelters during meetings that helped kick off the city's second annual participatory budgeting sessions.
Some 23,000 Bhutanese have relocated to the U.S. from refugee camps in Nepal in the last three years, with many settling in New York. Tens of thousands more refugees are expected.
A group called Barbers for Obama is helping register voters in time for the Nov. 6 presidential election.
Cheers inside and boos outside greeted the ribbon-cutting ceremony heralding the arrival of Brooklyn's Barclays Center, the new home of the Nets.
A longtime political operative and two other allies of the Bronx Democratic Party stand to benefit from a controversial plan to develop the site of a former community garden.
Our reporters examine the upheaval in Egypt's potential impact on women.
Three men have consumed nothing except water since beginning their protest in front of United Nations on Lo-sar — the Tibetan New Year — on Feb. 22.
Setsuko Thurlow, who was 13 at the time of the blast, spoke to Brooklyn high school students as part of the "Hibakusha Stories" effort to promote nuclear disarmament.