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The family of a Bronx teen who claims he was thrown through a window by police is suing the city.

Service is back to normal after a fire at the Franklin Avenue "C" train stop Thursday afternoon.

The Second Avenue Subway is a topic New Yorkers have heard about for decades, and with the first phase of that project finally set to open in a little more than two years, MTA officials are already looking down the tracks at where it goes next.

For the first time, the city offered 1,300 teachers the option to resign or retire with severance, but the deal did not prove to be popular.

Elizabeth Gaynes, the executive director of the Osborne Association; Brian Fischer, the former commissioner of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision; and Alphonso David, state deputy secretary and counsel for civil rights discussed the problem of aging prisoners on Inside City Hall.

Veteran New York attorneys Daniella Levi, Ron Kuby, Gerald Shargel and Sanford Rubenstein joined Errol Louis to take a closer look at a number of intriguing legal questions.

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Zephyr Teachout was in court Thursday to defend her residency status as a New Yorker.

An 18 block stretch in Astoria, Queens is looking much better after sanitation crews were dispatched following complaints from residents.

Jesse David Fox of Vulture.com reports on newly released book titles and the world of publishing in "The Book Reader."

Police are looking for four people in connection with a robbery in Manhattan.

Some people may know their way around a kitchen, but as we explained in our last Healthy Living report, there are some common kitchen practices that may do more harm than good.

Summer in the city means Shakespeare in the Park. The Public Theater's latest offering at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park is a new staging of "King Lear" starring John Lithgow.

A Bronx mother says it's hard watching the video of Eric Garner's arrest because cameras were also rolling right before officers shot her son.

Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the Department of Housing and Urban Development to approve $250,000 in federal funding.

After Hurricane Sandy, the Breezy Point neighborhood of Rockaway, Queens is only now re-emerging. What flood waters didn't destroy, fire did. Now a major project to protect the community is underway. But it's not without controversy.

A championship boxing match in Brooklyn this weekend features a boxer from the borough who has overcome tremendous challenges to get into the ring.

NY1 parenting correspondent Shelley Goldberg recommends some places to go with parenting news you can use.

The Bronx Zoo has a new attraction after the birth of a colobus monkey.

A state Supreme Court judge raised the bail for the teen facing manslaughter charges in the death of Ariel Russo.

Two children who were abducted from their Pennsylvania home early Thursday morning after their father allegedly shot and killed their mother were found safe hours later inside a Staten Island store, police say.