Julie Menin, a former community board chairwoman in lower Manhattan and ex-restaurateur, was appointed to head the city?s Consumer Affairs department Thursday. Menin promised to end the onslaught of fines that the city slaps on small businesses.

Former Harlem City Councilman Robert Jackson is running for state Sen. Adriano Espaillat?s state Senate seat and predicts he will slash the Dominican pol?s rising political career.

One determined young girl went straight to the top to ask for a job for her unemployed dad ? by asking the First Lady. Ten-year-old Charlotte Bell, who was at the White House Thursday for its annual ?Take Your Daughters and Sons To Work Day,? politely asked Michelle Obama if she might be able to help her father, who has been out of work for several years.

President Barack Obama?s hometown of Chicago plans to name a high school after him. Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday announced plans to build Barack Obama College Preparatory High School. The selective enrollment high school will be open for the 2017-2018 school year.

Michelle Obama is rearranging plans for a speech before graduating high school seniors in Kansas in the face of protests that her appearance at a combined graduation ceremony for five schools would limit seating for families and friends.

A day after taking a tumble near Central Park, Spartacus the horse was looking as good as new. The 15-year-old draft horse didn?t suffer a scratch in the Wednesday mishap on E. 59th St. at Fifth Ave.

Charles Diaz, 35, of Brooklyn, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder, arson and criminal possession of a weapon.

The fire began shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday in a remote spot in Cumberland County off the Delaware Bay.

Faithful from around the globe are arriving in Rome for the historic canonization of two popular popes.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has stepped in the middle of an ongoing battle between a landlord and his Brooklyn tenants who claim their rent-stabilized apartments were destroyed in an effort to force them out.

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said Police Detective Jay Poggi, 58, was arraigned on a criminal complaint charging him with driving while intoxicated.

Federal authorities are turning up the heat on the county, threatening to once again withhold additional millions in grant money for allegedly not complying with a 2009 housing settlement.

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Visitors to the American Museum of Natural History have long asked that question about the giant blue whale over their heads. The answer is hidden.

Twenty-three students signed onto three separate complaints, each alleging violations of a different federal law, against the university and the affiliated Barnard College.

Julie Menin, a former regulatory lawyer and chairwoman of Manhattan Community Board 1, will head New York City?s Department of Consumer Affairs.

The Manhattan hospital unveiled its rebuilt and revamped operation, which is now triple its former size.

Three amateur athletes set high goals, and find ways to achieve them, with some one-on-one help.

An on duty NYPD detective accidentally shot his partner in the wrist in Queens overnight, and was charged with driving while intoxicated, police sources say.

A gusty wind could exceed 35 miles per hour Thursday, but highs will be in the mid 60s.

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The Bronx Zoo is celebrating the arrival of two baby western lowland gorillas.

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The fire has scorched as many as 300 acres in the western part of Beachwood, on Pinewald Road near the Berkeley Township border.

A Brooklyn NYPD detective was arrested in Queens for drunk driving early Thursday morning after his partner was accidentally shot with his gun, officials said.

Congresswoman Grace Meng organized a vigil on the anniversary of a massive building collapse in Bangladesh, which killed 1,129 garment workers.

More than a year ago, 16-year-old Tenzin Drudak was fatally struck while on his way to school on Thomson Avenue. Now, LaGuardia Community College has a released a traffic study on the highly congested roadway, to help prevent another life from being lost.

A woman has been charged for embezzling from the Springfield Gardens special needs school where she worked as a bookkeeper for more than a decade, District Attorney Richard Brown said Thursday.

A ?neighborhood tech? business is fixing its sights on Queens as it continues to expand.

An elderly Bayside couple was seriously injured after two men invaded their home on Wednesday, cops said.

The perils of creating artificial intelligence have long been a sci-fi preoccupation, and The Machine brings little new to the subject save for an ominously ambiguous conclusion about the consequences of making computers more advanced than their human masters.

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None of the reliably irritating qualities of the social issue documentary gall quite so acutely as the tendency to venerate mere awareness.

Audiences are invited to leave such films duly pleased for having cared enough to watch, congratulated by the filmmakers for recognizing, from the c...

Finding form in chaos, Ralph Steadman became famous illustrating the writing of Hunter S. Thompson and made a subsequent career out of speaking truth to power via activist-minded art.

For No Good Reason details the famed wild-man cartoonist's career with a stylistic daring that do...

The promise of perfection leads to disaster for an Argentinean family in 1960 Patagonia in The German Doctor, a fictionalized account of one clan's run-in with notorious Auschwitz psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele.

Adapting her own novel, writer-director Lucía Puenzo keeps the e...

Few vistas are as exhilarating as the passenger train window, the world advancing and receding with breathtaking speed, the viewer stationary yet hurtling through the landscape.

Few films articulate this sensation as stunningly as the opening of Omid Nooshin's Last Passenger, whic...

After honing his sour, smarter-than-thou persona on HBO's Girls, Alex Karpovsky translates the mix of repression, condescension, and bluntness he's now associated with to a Midwestern male context.

Karpovsky doesn't get to show much range in writer-director Stephen Gurewitz's timi...