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It's a great time of year to enjoy outdoor art, including a new exhibit in Downtown Brooklyn that you can really be a part of.

The family of Eric Garner says they will march across the Verrazano Bridge later this month with the Rev. Al Sharpton but many elected officials on Staten Island say they are not happy with the plan.

A special screening of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" was held on the Upper West Side Wednesday night.

Two Queens women are under arrest for allegedly abusing foreign exchange students at the Crown Tutoring Academy in Little Neck.

President Barack Obama on Thursday authorized airstrikes to stem the advances of extremists in Iraq.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says no injuries have been reported after a minor train derailment at the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island Thursday afternoon.

The NAACP hosted a meeting on Staten Island Thursday to discuss Eric Garner's death, and people at the meeting said all of the police officers involved in the incident need to be held accountable, even those who were just bystanders.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday signed a new school safety law named after Avonte Oquendo.

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.