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New York City police are seeking the public's help finding a group of a dozen girls they say assaulted two other girls on a subway train.

Public School 30 and Public School 179 are about as alike as two schools can be. They are two blocks apart in the South Bronx. Both are 98 percent black and Latino. At P.S. 30, 97 percent of the children qualify for subsidized lunches; at P.S. 179, 93 percent.

Nick Cannon has quit his morning radio show over serious concerns about his health. The 31-year-old actor will no longer host “Rollin with Nick Cannon” on New York City radio station 92.3 NOW. On the show Wednesday, Cannon said he was hospitalized over the weekend after blood clots were discovered in his lungs. Doctors also found out a ventricle in his heart was enlarged.

The family of a Russian billionaire has bought a New York City penthouse apartment for $88 million....

A Malaysian company's plan to build a $4 billion convention center and big-time casino on the outskirts of New York City could be the biggest shot fired yet in a tourism arms race that has seen ...

The Occupy Wall Street camp in New York spawned others across the world before it was broken up this week, just short of its two-month anniversary. But, as those who bedded down in Zuccotti Park on the first night explain, it very nearly didn't happen.

Hundreds of supporters of Occupy Wall Street vowed Tuesday to keep up their protests, convening at a busy corner for a meeting to discuss their next move; the city, meanwhile, appeared headed for a legal showdown over its eviction of protesters from the group's encampment.

The Occupy Wall Street protesters, who viewed the cleanup plans as a pretext to evict them from Zuccotti Park, viewed the decision as a victory.

Protesters expressed fears Thursday that a scheduled cleanup of the private park where they've been camped out near Wall Street is merely a ploy to unravel the demonstration.

A woman who was seriously injured when a helicopter carrying a group on a birthday celebration crashed into the East River became the second person to die from the accident, a hospital spokeswoman said Wednesday.