When I was growing up in the Bronx in the early 1950s, one of my favorite treats was riding in my grandfather’s yellow Checker taxicab when he was off duty. The little round jump seats in the back ...

Writer-director Joel Alfonso Vargas' feature debut follows a Dominican American family struggling to make it work in one of ...

John DeMartini, an educator in the Northport School district for more than half a century, has died at the age of 81.

The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York ...

The premiere event of "Can You Feel The Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story" included a panel discussion with actors and producers.

Michael Katz wasn’t one to sugarcoat things. Not in real life, and not in his writing. Even those who loved Katz described him as a curmudgeon whose feistiness fueled his larger-than-life personality.

The city Health Department issued a new five-year blueprint on Tuesday for improving the economic and lifestyle factors that ...

Rakeem Young, 34, was walking his dog, Chanel, in the Bronx on Friday, Jan. 24, when a man wielding a machete attacked him ...

Because we're trying to get from 81.5 to 83, here are your afternoon links: Queens Night Market trying to remain affordable, ...

A man who was arrested in a large-scale ICE raid in New York City on Tuesday was wanted for burglary in Colorado, according ...

The city laid out a series of proposals to reduce cancer deaths by 20 percent, and deaths from heart- and diabetes-related ...