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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration publicly vowed earlier this year to wipe out tickets received by motorists at hundreds of decommissioned bus stops—but instead drivers are being asked to settle the fines for lesser amounts, even though the violations aren’t valid. Earlier this summer, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority shuttered 570 bus stops because […]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad warned the Obama administration today that if Iran’s nuclear facilities are attacked, the U.S. will face a war that “would know no boundaries.” The Iranian president,

In the exclusive club of former presidents, not often does one declare his superiority to another. Former President Jimmy Carter appeared to do just that on Monday. “I feel that

His name is Brian Doherty, he’s an ex-cop, and he’s running as a Republican against Democratic incumbent Dov Hikind for the 48th Assembly District seat. Opposing Hikind in Borough Park

A new way to cause mischief quickly spread through short-messaging service Twitter Tuesday morning before the site could fix the problem, as mysterious “tweets” of blocked-out text propagated themselves and

A world-wide registry of Sukkahs has been set up, and is listed online at www.localsukkah.org. The directory has been designed for Jews to locate a Sukkah near to them, so

A defense lawyer aggressively cross-examined a government informer in federal court on Monday about scores of conversations he had with James Cromitie, charged with conspiring to bomb synagogues and shoot

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vowed yesterday to slash income taxes to revive the state’s economy and make it more competitive with its neighbors. “We’ve got to do that,” the

Hundreds of transit cameras went live Monday inside the New York City Police Department’s Lower Manhattan Security Coordination Center. It’s part of a new security initiative made possible by a

One of the world’s most despised leaders was quite possibly the safest man in New York City on Monday night. The city is going to great lengths to protect Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, reports CBS 2?s Rob Morrison. The fact that this much security is out in plain sight pales in comparison to the hidden […]

A new poll by Rasmussen finds a 16-point lead for Democrat Andrew Cuomo in his gubernatorial race against Carl Paladino, the Buffalo real-estate developer who won the Republican nomination last week. The poll, which surveyed likely voters, found 54% supporting Cuomo to Paladino’s 38%. The poll’s margin of error is 4.5 percentage points. As WSJ’s […]

Rabbi Yehuda Levin Injected himself into the Carl Paladino-Andrew Cuomo gubernatorial race this morning and promptly raised an old political bugaboo that has long hounded both Andrew and his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo. The NY Daily News reports: It’s the “Vote For Cuomo, Not the Homo” smear allegedly used during the 1977 mayoral runoff […]

The Brooklyn Paper reports: Assemblyman Vito Lopez, the most powerful politician in Brooklyn, has had his share of battles with political opponents throughout his career, but he is facing an even more formidable foe — cancer. A source confirmed that Lopez has been telling political allies this week that he believes his esophagal cancer has […]

The UN may be welcoming Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but that doesn’t mean that New York lawmakers are happy about it. A group of elected officials, led by Gov. Paterson,

New York’s aging natural-gas pipelines are ready to blow, experts warn. Huge swaths of infrastructure maintained by Con Ed, National Grid and a handful of interstate distributors are often older than the section of 62-year-old pipe that exploded Sept. 9 in suburban San Francisco, killing four. “We are looking at catastrophic failure that might be […]