Gunfire erupted in the lobby of Manhattan’s storied Waldorf-Astoria Hotel during an apparent robbery, wounding at least one person and resulting in one arrest, authorities said.

A woman who said she was injured while being ejected from Madison Square Garden settled the latest in a wave of lawsuits related to the Republican National Convention.

After all those years of going nowhere, Asbury Park was finally going somewhere. And then, boom — the bottom fell out of the economy.

A retrospective of the work of Arbit Blatas brings together brightly colored landscapes, portraits and stage designs with bronze bas-reliefs that he cast as memorials to the Holocaust.

Two white Staten Island men face hate crimes charges after they were arrested in the beating of a black teenager on the night that Barack Obama was elected president.

Developers are now selling not just an apartment but a social life, catering to renters interested in having everything at their fingertips when they get home.

Word that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was a contender to become President-elect Barack Obama’s secretary of state set off speculation in New York about who could replace her.

By generating its own electricity, a new billboard planned for Times Square could save 18 tons of carbon emissions yearly.

Teachers at 33 high-need secondary schools across New York City will receive bonuses of several thousand dollars each as a reward for student gains on school report cards.

Michael R. Bloomberg’s plans for budget cuts and tax increases during a downturn are drawing ire.