With a little resourcefulness, visitors to Morningside Heights, Columbia’s neighborhood, can relive their college days without any hefty tuition.

Taking Questions: Bryn Chrisman, a vinyasa flow yoga teacher and kirtan leader, responds to readers.

The first cases seeking compensation for 9/11 responders’ illnesses and injuries are scheduled for trial on May 16. But a settlement plan has been drafted, the judge said.

A state judge ruled that the Adirondack Park Agency will have to pay the expenses that Salim B. Lewis incurred in his court battle with the agency.

A 59-year-old dairy farmer killed his cows and himself last month in Copake, N.Y., highlighting the struggles of many dairymen reeling from last year’s disastrous drop in prices.

Gov. David A. Paterson said that long-term survival of the Manhattan hospital, the last Roman Catholic general hospital in the city, was uncertain.

More than a half-dozen gentrified neighborhoods in Brooklyn would lose subsidized centers for low-income families under proposed city budget cuts.

In the trial of three officers accused in an attack on a Brooklyn man, a specialist said that genetic material found on a police baton was a mixture.

The new policy prohibits shackles from being used under any circumstances for youths held at so-called nonsecure and limited-secure youth prisons.

The university also will freeze deans’ salaries and reduce the number of new graduate students because of a drop in the endowment to $16.3 billion from $22.9 billion.