New York

ROTTERDAM, N.Y. (AP) — State police say bad parking led to the apprehension of an upstate New York man wanted on a probation violation.

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has appointed an independent monitor to oversee changes to the New York Police Department's contentious stop-and-frisk policy.

NEW YORK (AP) — One of the busiest crossroads in the world is coming to a standstill as yoga enthusiasts take over Manhattan's Times Square to celebrate the longest day of the year.

New York has some of the strictest gun laws in the country.  It's a fact some gun owners traveling to the state sometimes miss with incarcerating results. For one Tennessee medical student at least, jail has been avoided.

The focal point of the National September 11 Memorial is a pair of sunken granite pools with three-story waterfalls that mark where the fallen World Trade Center towers once stood. And while they’re certainly beautiful, the New York City Police Department is watching them for an entirely different reason: they’re worried that grief-stricken visitors might try to use the site to commit suicide. Re

A video from a dashboard camera taken back in February of 2011 has recently surfaced and quickly gone viral on the internet. The video is alleged to show a Utica, New York police officer planting evidence, presumably a bag of drugs, during a traffic stop.

It is happening with alarming regularity no matter how much the word is put out there. NO GUNS IN NEW YORK!

You want to live longer? Move to New York City. In a press conference Tuesday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced New Yorkers are living longer than ever before. This is despite the many hazards of city living including crime, pollution and crazy taxi drivers.

On Monday morning, Michael A. Davitt, a former New York State employee and known rabblerouser, delayed traffic on the Tappan Zee bridge in Rockland County. As a form of protest, he unfurled a rope ladder from the bridge and sat for hours with a 24-foot banner that accused county officials of a “cover-up.”

The NYPD is doing it's best to help night clubs fight terrorism.  To that end they've released a "best practices" document to help guide the way.