A courtyard cookout ended in chaos and bloodshed early Sunday morning, with a young woman killed and four people wounded, the police said.

Some of New York’s most influential business leaders are searching for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s replacement.

In Prospect Park over the weekend, in what was perhaps a snapshot of countless other celebrations throughout New York City, holiday cookouts had a distinctly ethnic flair.

In its less than two years in Brooklyn, a Concorde jet that retired unscathed in 2003 already has had its pointy nose knocked off.

Part bureaucrat, part politician, part intellectual, Christopher O. Ward will need all of those attributes to put the construction at ground zero on track.

Hundreds came to Grace Tabernacle Christian Center in Brooklyn on Sunday to pray for the Rev. Timothy D. Wright, critically injured in a car crash Friday, and his wife and grandson, who were killed.

There is still nothing that resembles a cold Manhattan Special, a thick and fizzy blend of espresso, seltzer and pure cane sugar, but after 113 years the soda seems to be caught between two worlds.

Wealthy patients, used to getting what they want, can present countless challenges for their therapists.

Every year, the city charges the struggling New York City Housing Authority about $200 million, for everything from water to trash pickup to police services.

Esmin Elizabeth Green’s death on a waiting room floor has ignited a firestorm of criticism against Kings County Hospital Center.