Posts published in “New York City”

A Guide to Getting Your First Apartment New York City landlords expect a lot from prospective renters. Here’s what you need to have ready to land the apartment you want.

About New York: Cuomo Finally Says the Obvious: He Backs the Transit Rescue Plan What took so long? Maybe the timing had something to do with Cynthia Nixon.

State Senate Grinds to a Halt as Neither Party Can Make a Majority A raft of pending bills were set aside for a second straight day in Albany, with Democrats and Republicans naturally blaming the other.

College Lecturer Pleads Guilty to Selling Fake Certificates A lecturer at Medgar Evers College, part of the CUNY system, offered discounted health care classes, and even provided course certificates. But it was all a sham.

Report Offers 50 Ways to Avoid the Chaos That Crippled Kennedy Airport Ray LaHood, a former transportation secretary, laid out dozens of changes to avoid a repeat of the failure that followed a fierce January snowstorm.

In the Battle Between Cuomo and Nixon, the Subway Becomes a Central Issue Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said he wants to pay for a new subway overhaul plan by passing congestion pricing as Cynthia Nixon released her transit proposal.

Metropolitan Diary: A Night at Studio 54 Not willing to wait like everyone else.

Sign Washed Away in Hurricane Sandy Lands on Beach in France A journey of five years and 3,600 miles for a real-estate sign that vanished from the Jersey Shore.

Mangano Corruption Trial Ends in Mistrial on Long Island Jurors could not reach a verdict for either Linda or Edward P. Mangano, Nassau County’s former executive who had been charged with bribery and fraud.

New York Police Department Is Retiring the Revolver About 50 officers still carry the storied six-shot revolver that became the standard department firearm in 1895, but the weapon is being phased out.

Romana Raffetto, Pasta Matriarch in New York, Dies at 85 She ruled the sauce pot in the kitchen of the family-run factory and store that her father-in-law founded in Greenwich Village in 1906.

Billion in Repairs on Tap for New York City’s Public Housing Along with the repairs, a federal monitor would oversee the New York City Housing Authority as part of a consent decree being finalized by the Justice Department.

Video Shows Officers Assaulting Man at Hospital, Prosecutors Say Officer Roger Then of Paterson, N.J., was charged over his role in two incidents, caught on video, in which officers struck a man while he was in a wheelchair and a…

Hungry City: At Lahi, Filipino Dishes, Classic and Idiosyncratic Alike The menu at this spot in Elmhurst, Queens, doesn’t stray far from favorites, but it does have occasional quirks, like a recasting of sisig as “tacos.”