The defendants, many of them members of an extended family, secured loans by overstating their income and bank account balances, the United States attorney in Manhattan said.
The Cake Boss Cafe in Port Authority Bus Terminal. The "Cake Boss," Bartolo Valastro Jr., was arrested on 10th Avenue.
Bartolo Valastro Jr., known as Buddy, was pulled over by officers in Midtown after they saw him driving his yellow 2014 Corvette erratically around 1 a.m. Thursday.
The window washers were rescued from the south side of 1 World Trade Center on Wednesday.
As the workers dangled 69 stories above the street, emergency crews cut a hole in a window of the tower and pulled them, unhurt, into the building.
Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, announced on Wednesday that his office had committed up to $35 million to eliminate a backlog of rape kits that await testing.
Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, announced a program to assist other jurisdictions with untested rape kits, which number in the hundreds of thousands nationally.
Freddie Cox, 48, celebrated in the parking lot at the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, N.Y., on Oct. 15, the first day of his parole from prison.
Parole boards are changing some of their long-held views on inmates admitting guilt, as shown in the case of Freddie Cox, a Brooklyn man convicted of murder.
Mayor Bill de Blasio is championing liberal values nationally, but at home, he is being criticized by the same police critics whose cause he backed during his campaign.
Mayor Bill de Blasio missed a moment of silence for victims of a 2001 plane crash, providing perhaps the most striking example to date of his habit of tardiness.
Gilberto Valle, a former New York City police officer whose conviction for conspiracy to kidnap, kill and eat women was overturned, was sentenced to time served on a lesser charge.
Kyle Seitz, 36, left his 15-month-old son, Benjamin, unattended for hours on July 7 in Ridgefield, Conn. If convicted, he could serve up to a year in prison.
Mrs. Roukema was a Republican whose moderate views often put her at odds with her party, most notably in her support of the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Opponents of a $150 million plant that would convert the saltwater of the lower Hudson River into drinking water say the project is unnecessary and potentially dangerous.
A writer and teacher with a varied career, Mr. Meltzer led the successful fight to rescue one of New York City’s most grandiose showplaces from being turned into a discothèque.
November 13, 2014
Metropolitan Diary: After cautiously surveying the seating possibilities in her subway car, a woman took a spot, only to discover a fellow New Jersey transplant she knew well.
There has been a lot of commotion lately over the future of 346 Broadway in Manhattan, especially the great four-faced clock that surmounts the building.
Over the past year, Miguel Rodriguez’s desire to have a positive impact has intensified, though it was not always so clear.
For more than 100 years, The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund has provided direct assistance to children, families and the elderly in New York. An article will appear daily through Jan. 23 to highlight the help given to people in need.
A man, a dame, a 1950s book cover: “Tough Kid From Brooklyn.” Tell us how the story begins. It’s City Room’s 2014 New York Pulp Fiction Contest.
Has the emphasis on the importance of home cooking inspired you or frustrated you? Tell us. The New York Times is seeking working parents who cook family meals, or don’t, on a regular basis.
With walls made of glass, the bathrooms in the penthouse apartments of new Manhattan towers leave little to the imagination. But only the birds will get an eyeful.
A 1963 Andy Warhol painting of Elvis Presley pointing a gun sold for nearly $82 million, contributing to an $852.9 million auction total.
Black 47, a band known for its Irish roots, New York City grit and political activism, is calling it quits after 25 years, 14 albums and 2,300 performances.
A little-known network of buses and vans takes people from New York City to visit relatives in prisons scattered in small towns across the state.
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