News

A former New York businessman convicted of arson-murder was freed from a Pennsylvania prison this week after spending 24 years behind bars.

Maria Milito hosts the August 22, 2014 episode of The Call.

Thousands of demonstrators are expected to participate in a march and rally today in honor of Eric Garner, the Staten Island who died in police custody last month. | View the full list of street closures and transit plans

August 23rd

NY1 takes a look at what's in today's New York City newspapers.

Five people were sent to the hospital, including an 8-day-old baby, following a car crash in Harlem Friday night.

The NYPD, along with businesses and residents in the North Shore section of Staten Island, are preparing in advance of tomorrow's rally in honor of Eric Garner, which is expected to draw thousands of people. | View the full list of street closures and transit plans | Read New Yorkers' thoughts.

The Health Department is stepping up efforts to get pre-K classrooms ready for the start of the school year.

After two boys drowned in the Bronx River, the Parks Department says it's making the city's waterways safer.

The Broadway show "Motown: The Musical" is taking a year and a half off starting in January.

Police are looking for a man they say tried to rape a woman in the Elmhurst section of Queens just before 5 a.m. last Saturday morning.

Police are investigating after a Brooklyn man was shot to death Friday in front of his stepson in the lobby of an apartment building on Sands Street.

Police say they found a 50-year-old man lying in the lobby of his apartment building at Broadway and St. James Avenue in Elmhurst.

For most city students, this was one of the last weeks of summer vacation, but at many charter schools, it was already the first week of the new school year.

The latest New Yorker of the Week could be touring as an actor of a William Shakespeare company, but after discovering his passion for teaching older adults years ago, he brings the Globe Theater to a group of seniors in Greenwich Village.

New test results show that City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito does not have cervical cancer.

The four members of the Inside City Hall Reporters Roundtable - Wall Street Journal reporter Mara Gay; Crain's New York political reporter Andrew Hawkins; Robert George of the New York Post editorial board; and Capital New York reporter Laura Nahmias - joined Inside City Hall to preview a rally in Staten Island to protest the death of Eric Garner and discuss the mayor's decision to give some bus school drivers a raise.

The four Democratic contenders for the 76th Assembly district on Manhattan's Upper East Side - Rebecca Seawright, David Menegon, Gus Christensen and Ed Hartzog - joined Inside City Hall for a fiery debate in the race to replace scandal-scarred Assemblyman Micah Kellner, who is not seeking re-election.

An 85-year-old man is suing the city for millions after allegedly being injured by police officers who were trying to ticket him for jaywalking.

The death of Eric Garner is obviously not the first community outrage over the death of an African-American at the hands of a white police officers. Fifty years and a day before the death of Eric Garner, a fatal incident occurred that sparked days of riots in Harlem and in Brooklyn.