New York Governor Eliot Spitzer on Monday asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to make a major federal disaster declaration for homeowners, renters and business owners in the boroughs of Brooklyn, More...

Dear Savvy Senior, What are the risk factors and symptoms of a stroke? My 74-year-old father had a stroke a few months ago and neither he nor mom had a clue what was happening. What can you tell us? More...

New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo last week sued and obtained a restraining order against a Pennsylvaniabased company and its owners for preying on New York's elderly by selling expensive home health services agreements and not More...

At the start of the 2007- 2008 school year, five years after Mayor Michael Bloomberg became the first mayor to gain control over the city's public schools, a majority of Queens voters think the next mayor should share control of schools with an ind More...

Congressmember Anthony Weiner (D-Queens), joined by City Councilmember John Liu (D-Flushing), continued his four-year effort of calling on the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) to install emergency cellphone service on More...

The city Department of Parks and Recreation conducted a census of street trees throughout the city in 1995 and 1996 and repeated the process 10 years later, in 2005-06. More...