Out of thin air, a drone rises up to your apartment building window. Pausing, menacingly, at eye level, hovering long enough to capture your terrified expression before it zips away. Are you being spied on? “Odds are they are trying to get a great image o

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday a plan to open 90 homeless shelters throughout New York City by 2021 and adopt a policy that keepshomeless people closeto the neighborhoods they come from. At the same time as those 90 new shelters are opened, he int

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new homeless initiative to add 90 homeless shelters, equitably dispersed throughout the city, is already facing pushback from community members and officials. The90 new shelters are part of the promise to eliminate 360 problematic c

Even on the sunniest day, a dark cloud lingers. It is the veil of exhaust and stench of garbage that hovers over northern Bushwick. Osiris Arias and his wife, Marina, have endured it since they moved to the Brooklyn neighborhood in 1995, and it has only g

The last guest will check out of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel at noon on Wednesday, and the Manhattan landmark will not host another for an indefinite amount of time. The1,412-room hotel is closing for at least two years while it is transformed into a mostly-residential building by its new Chinese owners, Anbang Insurance Group, which bought the property for $2 billion in 2014.

PK Mahanandia will speak at the United Nations on Monday, and will after appear at the book signing alongside the author at 1 p.m. at the United Nations Bookshop, GA building, Visitors' Concourse. It is International Happiness Day. Maybe people aren’t very happy these days. They need some help. I haven’t prepared anything, but I will talk about what is happiness.

On the same day that the FBI director confirmed the agency is investigating possible Russian interference in the presidential election, the New York attorney general said he has hired two special prosecutors to scrutinize the Trump administration. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman hired Howard McMaster from the office of former U.S.

Tuxedo-clad Gria Jacobs has been a chauffeur in NYC for three years, she said from behind the wheel of her Mercedes. For her, looking good while driving is easy. Parking is hard. Every year, Jacobson has to shell out $3,000 to $4,000 in parking tickets, the painful price of doing business. And she fears a new DOT program designating public parking spaces to car-share and rental companies means fewer legitimate spots for her — and possibly more tickets.

You might be able to get some fresh air in Manhattan — if you hang out in Central Park all day. Otherwise, the hazards of breathing city air change just about as quickly as it takes for your Uber to arrive at your destination, according to a new study from MIT Senseable City Lab. The MIT team came up with a new tool for determining the air-quality conditions and exposure hazards of different areas of the city: cellphones.

Hugh Hefner's runaway bride Crystal Harris has apologized via Twitter – not for dumping him just days before their June 18 nups – but for making a jab at the playboy's sexual prowess. "I'm sorry," she tweeted on July 28. "I was unprepared and blurted out things I shouldn’t have said." The 25 year old playmate over-shared on a July 26 interview with Howard Stern, revealing that sex with 85-year-old her ex-fiance lasted "like two seconds."

A Japanese squid dish that pushes the envelope on the raw food fad may not catch on as quickly as sushi, judging from reactions to a viral video (first video below) that shows a squid writhing in bowl of food after being doused with special sauce. Odori-don, which literally means “dancing squid rice bowl,” according to Japanese food blog FoodJapan.net, is a delicacy in which a live squid’s head is removed and made into sashimi, and the rest of the body is served whole on a bed of sushi rice.

The News of the World may be defunct, but its checks are still good. At least they are for Rebekah Brooks, who is still on the company payroll despite her arrest and resignation as the disgraced paper's editor-in-chief in July, according to a report in The Telegraph. "I am reliably informed that she remains on the company payroll," reports Tim Walker of the London paper.

Anders Breivik, the man who confessed to the massacre in Norway last month - including a bombing in Oslo and a shooting rampage at a political youth camp - returned to his scene of evil Saturday for a tour in which he reenacted the slaughter. Norwegian police said they questioned Breivik for nearly eight hours while they reconstructed the bloody ambush on Utoya Island that claimed the lives of 69 young political activists on July 22, CNN reports.

Scientists are saying that ecstasy-an illegal drug largely connected with hardcore clubgoers-can actually treat several forms of cancer. However, a market-ready medication doctors can prescribe to patients may take another ten years to develop, researchers told BBC Radio. "This is an exciting next step," said Professor John Gordon, lead author of a groundbreaking study on the topic, during a radio interview.

Republicans have seemingly grown tired of Sarah Palin's teasing about running for President, and have decided she should just stay out of it. A shocking 71% say the former reality TV star should not run for the White House in 2012, according to a Fox News poll. Only 25% of those asked the question, "Do you think Sarah Palin should run for president in 2012 or not?"

Levi Johnston's first foray into publishing had him baring some skin for Playgirl. Now, he's revealing everything about why ex-flame Bristol Palin got pregnant with their son Tripp in a new tell-all book out Sept. 20. In "Deer in the Headlights," Johnston says Palin, daughter of ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, convinced him to get her pregnant so she could have a baby in revenge for her mother's surprise pregnancy with son Trig.