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A bomb blast outside a Starbucks coffee shop rattled the early morning Memorial Day quiet of Manhattan's Upper East Side today, shattering windows and triggering the evacuation of 25 apartments.

Four men were arrested Wednesday for an alleged plot to bomb a New York synagogue and Jewish community center, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.

The former U.S. attorney general and the FBI director cannot be subjected to a lawsuit by a Pakistani man claiming abuse while imprisoned in New York after the September 11, 2001, attacks the Supreme Court ruled on Monday.

More than 800 first responders have staged a disaster drill at the World Trade Center PATH station. The mock explosion happened Sunday morning in the PATH tunnel linking lower Manhattan to New Jersey. Hundreds of firefighters, police officers and members of other New York City agencies took part in the drill.
They secured the scene and then brought the pretend victims out of the tunnel.

The 150 volunteers playing victims wore makeup simulating blood and grime.

After an 18-month, $100 million renovation, the hotel will feature a new restaurant and lobby lounge.

An assistant principal was in critical condition with New York’s most serious case of the swine flu virus so far.

Dr. Thomas R. Frieden has cut a high and sometimes contentious profile as New York City’s top health official.

A diner at an upstate New York restaurant got a little something extra with his broccoli - a severed snake head.

Two paintings by Pablo Picasso are bought at auction in New York, just 24 hours after another of his works failed to sell.

Wal-Mart Stores agreed to institute a crowd-control plan in New York stores in the wake of a 'Black Friday' shopper melee where a worker was trampled to death.