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The Muslim cleric behind plans to build a mosque close to the Ground Zero site has blamed politicians such as Sarah Palin for fuelling a rise in Islamophobia.

A double-decker bus traveling off its route hit a low railroad bridge overhead and flipped on its side early Saturday, killing four people and critically injuring others, authorities said.

The imam at the center of the controversy over a YMCA-like Islamic center proposed for a site near the World Trade Center says the project will not be stopped.

The 17-year-old daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand accidentally fell to her death from a midtown high-rise early Friday after partying at a posh Manhattan nightclub, police said.

A defining element of the skyline since 1931 is set to get a rival with 15 Penn Plaza, though it is not clear how soon the project will be built.

A city firefighter was caught "red-handed" tending more than 100 marijuana plants - each worth $5,000 - in the basement of a Queens house, a prosecutor said Monday.

Supporters and opponents of a proposed Muslim cultural center and mosque near the World Trade Center site rallied in downtown Manhattan on Sunday, kept blocks apart by a heavy police presence.

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A hijack threat halted an American Airlines flight just before takeoff Thursday, leaving the New York-bound jet sitting on the tarmac for several hours while it was searched and passengers were removed for extra scrutiny.

The man behind the proposed mosque at Ground Zero in New York is refusing to rule out the possibility that it could be partially funded by Iran. The New York Post reports Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has said he would raise money for ...

The developers of an Islamic cultural center that would include a mosque near Ground Zero have rejected Gov. David Paterson's offer to help them find a different site. Paterson said today the group is apparently committed to building in the proposed site.