Gloria Hedges is still having trouble grasping that her companion, Andrew Seabrooks, a lifelong resident of South Ozone Park, was killed in Afghanistan.

The Wall Street ferry SeaStreak makes a twice-daily run to Gunnison Beach, the busiest clothing-optional recreation area in the nation, devotees say.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has indicated that he sees the city’s sprawling array of 329 often homespun senior centers as inefficient and outdated.

Florent, the undistinguished but somehow unforgettable diner that ushered in the transformation of Manhattan’s meatpacking district, closed amid fanfare and heartbreak on Sunday night.

At the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice in Brooklyn, many in the first graduating class of 79 seniors are from the city’s poorest neighborhoods, and nearly all are collegebound.

The boy, Nathan Allsbrook, was hit by what appeared to be a stray bullet while walking with a friend early Sunday, the police said.

Gov. David A. Paterson, who has made advancing gay rights as central to his policymaking, was greeted enthusiastically at the gay pride parade in New York.

If there were ever any doubt that gay people form one of Gov. David A. Paterson’s most loyal and enthusiastic constituencies, that doubt was erased on Sunday by the howl of a drag queen on Fifth Avenue.

With a strike deadline looming, Gov. David A. Paterson convinced Consolidated Edison and Local 1-2 of the Utility Workers of America to take three days off from their negotiations.

Artist Olafur Eliasson’s $15.5 million art installation aside — here’s an insider’s guide to the city’s many cascades.