At the heart of the case is the rigger’s choice to use a worn set of slings to stabilize the crane, which eventually toppled and damaged several buildings, the Manhattan district attorney said.

The 39-year-old woman was jogging in a park behind Gracie Mansion on Sunday afternoon when a man slashed her across the forehead and then walked away.

David Tarloff is accused of first-degree murder in the death of a therapist who was stabbed repeatedly with knives and a meat cleaver in her office on East 79th Street.

In 2006, Rev. Forrest Church, who has cancer, was given six months to live. On Sunday, he delivered what may or may not be his last sermon — for the fifth time.

Members of the New York Boston Terrier Meetup Group uses a social networking Web site to arrange for monthly excursions to dog runs around the city.

A high-tech implant returns hearing to a woman deaf for 40 years.

The curious case of William Milliken Vanderbilt Kingsland began a few months after he died. He left no will, and his apartment turned out to be full of artworks — that turned out to be stolen.

The cause of the fire remained unknown Sunday afternoon, but fire officials there were no indications that it was suspicious.

The controversy over a project planned by the Hospital for Special Surgery is a demonstration of the friction that institutional expansion engenders in the city’s compact residential neighborhoods.

Every Monday and Friday, members of an informal group called Retired Old Men Eating Out gather at the Silver Star Restaurant on the Upper East Side to discuss politics.