The link between drug smuggling and terror usually spurs images of Afghan poppy fields under the wary eye of men in fatigues. Sometimes, though, it's garbage bags filled with money from selling illegal cigarettes in Brooklyn.
Mark Meckler -- co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, one of the largest Tea Party groups in the country -- has gotten to know that his Second Amendment rights are more nuanced than he'd probably like after after being arrested for trying to bring his pistol onto a flight from LaGuardia Airport in New York.
One of the best ways to spend an afternoon in New York City — taking a walk from Lower Manhattan across the Brooklyn Bridge to get a bite of pizza at Grimaldi's is back after a terrifying (but brief) closure.
Back in October, protesters arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge and other early Occupy Wall Street marches promised to clog up Manhattan's court system rather than take any kind of deal if their charges weren't fully dismissed, but only 40 percent are sticking to that plan.
Two disturbing emergencies shook New York's fabled advertising row on Wednesday as an elevator fell in one building and a suspicious package forced the evacuation of another.
Other than the venue — a Pabst-slinging bar with a taco truck parked in the backyard called Union Pool — the first general assembly for Occupy Williamsburg looked a lot like any other Occupy meeting.
This Saturday will be the one-month anniversary of the massive protest that followed Occupy Wall Street's eviction from Zuccotti Park (and the four-month mark since Occupy Wall Street began), and to mark it the protesters plan to occupy another space in Lower Manhattan.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Friday that police didn't stop journalists from covering the Nov. 15 clearing of Zuccotti Park: "We didn't keep anybody from reporting, you just had to stand to the side."
36 Cooper Square has earned a sort of cult-level status within the history of Silicon Alley, thanks to the success of its tech-savvy tenants Curbed and Hard Candy Shell and especially Silcon Alley darling Foursquare, but tenant turnover may mean the end of the address's cachet.
New York City's most expensive apartment, which went on the market Thursday, is surprisingly ugly for $165,000 a month.
After weeks of mystery and a teeny bit of controversy, the Apple pulled back the curtain at their new Grand Central flagship store on Wednesday morning revealing glowing logos embedded into a sparkly marble façade.
The world's largest Apple Store is scheduled to open in Grand Central on December 9, and despite what you read in the New York Post, the state's "investigation" into the shady lease negotiations is standard procedure.
At an Occupy Wall Street protest of President Barack Obama's fundraiser in New York on Wednesday, members of the press say police kept them out of an area cordoned off for protesters, in conflict with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's recent directive that cops not interfere with media.
Mayor Bloomberg, who always fends off the suggestion that he'll make a run at the White House, had to spell out why he's just as powerful where he's sitting in Manhattan: "I have my own army," for one.
It's late November, and yet the temperature in New York City just hit 70 degrees, tweets The New York Times, breaking the record set in 1896, and making New York one of several areas to see record-breaking warm temperatures in the past couple days.
One of the protesters arrested during Occupy Wall Street's massive New York protest last week was held on $25,000 bail for a weapons charge, and on Monday night the occupiers voted to post it for him.
Construction workers are putting the finishing touches on the the extremely secretive but so far impressive-looking Apple Store inside Grand Central.
The FBI declined to take up New York City's investigation of a terrorism suspect because the police department's own informant helped him so much.
The New York Police Department is proud of itself for the arrest of a "lone wolf" terrorism suspect over the weekend, but the timing of the bust and the ambivalence of federal investigators have some suggesting the department had an ulterior PR motive.
Michael Bloomberg is the 21st-century Monopoly man, minus the monocle, who peddles information and influence instead of colorful real estate.
The NYPD announced on Sunday night that they arrested a 27-year-old American citizen who they say was planning to attack government and military targets with homemade pipe bombs.
On Thursday, Occupy Wall Street protesters nationwide marched along with New York's huge crowds, but uprooted from Zuccotti Park, the movement's focus looks to be shifting toward Washington, D.C.
One of the most impressive moments of yesterday's Occupy Wall Street marches, was when someone projected a giant 99% "bat signal" on the side of one of lower Manhattan's skyscrapers as thousands of people swarmed across the nearby Brooklyn Bridge.
On Tuesday, an organizing group with the Occupy Wall Street protest hit a small roadblock that could be a sign of a larger obstacle when it got kicked out of the atrium at 60 Wall Street.
For some it was an extraordinarily uncomfortable night of upright dozing at Zuccotti Park, but for others it was the first time they'd spent the night inside in weeks.
A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled protesters didn't have a First Amendment right to camp in the park, but the park has been reopened to protesters without camping gear, and they're having what amounts to a party.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has shifted gears a few times during the lifespan of the Occupy Wall Street encampment, but of late he's settled into a wait-and-see attitude that relies on outside factors such as the weather to help him end the situation.
It's a convergence of two long-time New York Times crushes: Brooklyn and Bees.
That irritatingly metallic voice telling New York subway riders to "please be patient" while your train's being delayed for what seems like an ungodly amount of time will soon be phased out for something more apologetic.
The news coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York resembles city-oriented metro-style reporting, and not New York metro either, but rather coverage of Zuccotti Park as its own little town.
When a large Brooklyn building collapsed on Tuesday, trapping three people in the rubble, it became the second New York City building in less than two weeks to fall in on itself.
Occupy Wall Street got its generators back after its legal team pressed the Fire Department of New York to release them.
Today politics exceeded its own parody: at least 50 reporters gathered at a comedy clubhouse -- while the rest of us watched on TMZ -- to hear the latest news about a leading a presidential candidate complete with warmup from a radio shockjock minion. What's left for Jon Stewart?
Various news outlets are reporting on a protester who's found latest, greatest way of getting attention for his issue: hanging off of a rope ladder over the Hudson River.
The crime of having a little bit of weed was was all the rage in New York City last year, according to the AP.
As Mayor Michael Bloomberg steps up his anti-protester rhetoric, Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York are girding for a showdown with police who they fear will be sent to evict them at any time.
As protesters in Oakland swarmed by the thousands into the city's port as the culmination of a day of demonstrations there, New York's ongoing encampment seems to be losing its momentum, both on the ground and in the press.
The Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park has had to deal with its share of undesirable behavior, from uncooperative drummers to a drug-related arrest, but Wednesday saw the most serious criminal allegations yet, as a volunteer in the encampment's kitchen has been arrested for sexual assault and rape.
New York City police and firefighters calmly walked into the Occupy Wall Street encampment and cleared out their electric generators and the fuel that runs them.
Players: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock star and part-time Occupy Wall Streeter; Dean Skelos, Republican State Senator who represents Nassau County and isn't a Wall Street Occupier
Occupy Wall Street protesters camped at New York's Zuccotti Park won the support of the local community board on Tuesday night, but the board insisted the protesters must curb the incessant drumming and figure out their bathroom situation.
Salman Rushdie's latest Twitter crusade hits close to his old Greenwich Village stomping grounds as the venerated author campaigns to save New York's St. Mark's Bookshop.
The most pervasive sound at Zuccotti Park, and one of the neighbors' biggest complaints, is that of a group of drummers pounding the skins, and organizers now fear their inability to rein in the constant drumming will kill what support they've gotten and move the park's owners to ask police to clear them out.
The leaderless Occupy Wall Street encampment is shifting away from its anarchic roots to something resembling a governed society, and not everyone in Zuccotti Park is happy about it.
Maybe gold is the more appropriate color for New York's famous yellow cabs.
No matter which side of Occupy Wall Street they're on -- protesters, cops, the media covering them, the office workers, and the gawkers -- everyone's gotta eat.
Commissioner Ray Kelly says protesters won't be able to sleep in the park after Friday
The city's may do away with the confusing "off-duty" light in favor of simply "on" or "off"
The outgoing New York Times critic's pick for New York's best is no surprise
Those keeping their jobs will on average make six times the private sector's average salary
On his weekly radio spot, the mayor suggested protests will take jobs from city workers
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