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Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg announced $3 million health initiative to have city hospital offer the morning after pill. The Mayor said to the National Abortion Rights Action League, where the plan was announced, "I make this promise. As...

While many people, in and out of the political arena, can find bad stuff to say about Mayor Bloomberg, there seems to be a problem with finding anything to say about the Democratic candidates who want to...

Those drug dealers try to be so crafty: A drug ring that would smuggle cocaine in fish shipments and boxes of chow mein was busted yesterday at JFK Airport. The ring had used shell corporations and fake...

The wait is over. In the "awards the city makes up just because" news, the Department of Health has finally announced the winners of their Golden Apple Awards - their food safety awards! Newsday broke it down,...

City health officials are wondering what's going on at Bronx Science High School, one of the city's coveted magnet schools: Hundreds of students were ill last week. The bathrooms and cafeteria are all being tested, as complaints...

More details on yesterday's incident where 50 children and adults tumbled down an escalator at the Loews Lincoln Square theater (photo from Newsday). They were travelling up an escalator to see The Polar Express on IMAX, and...

It's New Year's Eve, and the city is ready to rock and roll. There are many events to choose from, although there seems to be a number of people content with staying in. The Post had some...

Yesterday, the City Council held a meeting about pet ownership in apartment buildings to decide whether or not tenants can replace pets that have passed away (in some buildings, new rules may have been put in place...

The MTA is this much closer to approving the shutdown of 164 token booths as a subcommittee will most likely approve the measure today. The booth closings are ostensibly to save money, though the 600 clerks would...

The budget-beleaguered MTA has an ambitious plan to sell or lease a number of its properties to raise over $1 billion. This sounds like what any debt-ridden company should do, but the NY Times revealed another...

Amid the terror alerts and warnings, yesterday was pretty much like any other summer day in the city, except with a bit more noticeable police presence, less truck passings into Manhattan, and a politician or three in...

Yikes - a Staten Island woman killed her husband, trying to kill herself, and then gave birth to a baby boy yesterday. The woman, Sung-Ann Choi-Lee, called the police in the morning saying she killed her husband....

A man was fatally shot in the head while riding the uptown 1 train around the 7th Avenue and 23rd Street stop at 9PM last night. Another man approached him and shot him in the face and...

Everyone's nightmare while riding the train: A 23 year-old aspiring actress was shot while riding the W train in Midtown yesterday afternoon. The victim, Monica Meadows, and witnesses report that a man just stood up and fired...

The horrifying runaway train that injured four people in Queens is being investigated. After being detached from an LIRR train, the disel engine barreled along for a mile and a half and crashed into five cars...