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The U.S. Army will make an exception to a decades-old rule and allow a Sikh doctor to serve without removing his turban and cutting his hair, an advocacy group said Friday.
Colin Beavan sat under the light of a single bulb, freaking out.
Weeks into the 9/11 tragedy, when Angelo J. Guglielmo Jr. would get calls in the middle of the night asking for clean, fresh boots — or find himself walking on unsteady rubble to carry water to recovery workers, he never stopped to ask himself: Why am I here?
At St. Francis Preparatory School this fall, the auditorium will double as a sick room. New York City might make students wash their hands several times a day. There will be a unit on swine flu in health class.
Herman Joseph's eyes light up when he lists some of his favorite clothing lines: True Religion. Rock & Republic. 7 For All Mankind.
New York's Times and Herald squares just got a lot more pedestrian-friendly.
Looking around at this party to celebrate the newest Star Trek film, no one can deny that these fans are hard core.
J. Ezra Merkin, the hedge fund manager who invested billions of dollars of his clients' money with Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff, has agreed to relinquish control of his funds to court-appointed trustees.
Felicia Mooradian is a prisoner in her own room.
After nearly 40 years as a nurse, Lucille Nassery had no problem identifying the sounds coming in the window from Fifth Avenue. Those were definitely the sounds of childbirth.
With the economy in the throes of a historic meltdown, financial workers everywhere fear layoffs. But even those who keep their jobs may face a far different future than they had imagined — one without the big payouts that have long made Wall Street a beacon for the ambitious and the acquisitive.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced an ambitious plan Wednesday to revitalize the city's sagging economy by recruiting new companies from China and elsewhere and providing lucrative incentives to laid-off workers to launch new businesses.
The bar was crowded with well-dressed professionals enjoying drinks and conversation, a typical evening — except that many of them had no job.
Following a brief, torturous foray into the public spotlight, Caroline Kennedy has retreated back into privacy. And if there's one thing on which political spectators agree, it's that she is unlikely to rush to repeat the experience.
One minute they were airline passengers. Six minutes later, they were stunned survivors taking on water in the middle of the frigid Hudson River.
As the governor considers a replacement for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Caroline Kennedy has spoken repeatedly of her "relationships" in Washington and her desire to use them on New York's behalf.
When community groups and the Board of Education were caught in an acrimonious dispute over an arts program, education officials brought in a fixer: Caroline Kennedy.
Prosecutors say two real-life Grinches posed as police officers and robbed a couple's home of their holiday presents on Christmas Eve.
For the hundreds of camera-toting tourists who visit Wall Street every day, the New York Stock Exchange presents an imposing sight.
After 25 years of marriage, there are still too many stories Gail Ostrow and her husband haven't shared with each other.
Stocks are down, down, down. But student interest in economics appears to be trending upward.
With the troubles on Wall Street looming over the city's real estate market, Manhattan apartment sales have dropped for the third consecutive quarter, according to two reports released Friday.
First the bursting of the dot-com bubble in the 1990s, then the accounting scandals earlier this decade, forced ballparks and arenas around the country to change their names. Enron Field became Minute Maid Park, and names like PSINet Stadium and CMGI Field vanished.
Joshua David remembers vividly the first time he stepped out onto the rusted-over elevated railway track that snaked above Manhattan.
A former presidential aide claims in a lawsuit that plot and marketing elements of the Kevin Costner and Kelsey Grammer movie "Swing Vote" were stolen from him.
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