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The performers featured in a new exhibit at New York City's Museum of Modern Art have complained of being pushed, prodded and poked by some patrons.

The scheduled 4 percent pay rise was set to go into effect on Thursday and is on top of a 9 percent raise in the last three years, Governor David Paterson said. He reminded unions that in the past two years, more than 300,000 New Yorkers have lost jobs and nearly 9 percent of workers are unemployed.

Authorities say a 21-year-old man has plunged to his death in an apparent suicide jump off the Empire State Building during the evening rush hour.

Steve Levy, a popular Long Island Democrat, is planning to become a Republican and is said to be preparing a run for governor.

The honeybee’s bad rap — and the days of urban beekeepers facing $2,000 fines — may be over this week.

Facing growing political pressure, Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Thursday that he would appoint an independent counsel to take over his office’s investigation into the Paterson administration’s response to a domestic violence case.

Looking for an affordable last-minute getaway? JetBlue Airways is celebrating its 10th birthday with a $10 one-day fare sale Monday on flights from New York to the airline's original 10 destinations.

Lil Wayne has agreed to go to jail in a gun case, but it has proven unexpectedly hard to put him there....

Already caught up in a scandal involving a close aide, embattled New York Governor David Paterson was charged on Wednesday by the state's ethics watchdog for unlawfully taking free baseball tickets to the 2009 World Series.

The accounts of Gov. David A. Paterson’s actions provide the first evidence that he helped direct an effort to influence a woman making abuse charges against his aide.