Newsroom Press

Mr. Bradley, a native of England, was a pioneering figure in American soccer and the first to sign with the New York Cosmos, as a player and as a coach.

Documents claim that a plan to protect endangered whales along the East Coast has been caught in interagency warfare and held in limbo by the White House.

Police officials said that new technology and training would prevent a repeat of the melee that concluded pro-immigration demonstrations last year.

A distraught man held a pellet pistol to the head of a student on City College’s campus in Harlem and threatened to shoot her and himself, the authorities said.

A state commission is recommending a sweeping consolidation of water services, school districts and other local government agencies across New York.

The suit says that an agreement giving Forest City Ratner at least 12 years to to complete the first phase of the Atlantic Yards project violates state eminent-domain law.

Listeners who had grown wistful for the cozy banter of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on his Friday call-in radio program will be able to tune in again starting next week.

A new local ordinance prohibits “the change of clothes in any public area or public street unless within a permanent enclosed structure.”

Supporters say the the plan will bring new businesses and housing, and opponents say it will forever alter Harlem’s character for the worse by ushering in a new wave of gentrification.

In his first news conference as Rome’s newly elected mayor, Gianni Alemanno announced on Wednesday that he would tear down a museum designed by Richard Meier. Built to showcase a first century B.C. altar that honored the military triumphs of the Roman emperor Augustus, the Ara Pacis Museum, below, opened in 2006 to considerable criticism. (The New York Times’s architecture critic, Nicolai Ouroussoff, called the building a “flop” and a “major disappointment.”) Mr. Alemanno said that getting rid of the large structure “was not a top priority,” but that his administration would review all the recent architectural projects in Rome. Built mostly in glass and travertine, the museum was the first important civic building completed in central Rome since Mussolini’s time. Mr. Alemanno had promised to dismantle the imposing structure if elected.

A federal suit has been issued demanding that the Department of Homeland Security issue legally enforceable regulations for its detention centers.

New York City lifted a stop-work order on Wednesday at a condemned skyscraper across the street from ground zero that had been in effect since a deadly fire in August.

Oliver Orton is confident that an organization that was once the voice of America’s hard-pressed farmers could still become the voice of America’s hard-pressed suburbanites.

The appellate ruling killed the city’s claim that gun makers and distributors have knowingly flooded illicit, underground markets with their weapons.

When he is not handling the doorman duties in a luxury building on East 79th Street, Richard Melnick writes historical books about Queens.

For the fourth consecutive year, the renowned red-tailed hawks of Central Park have spent their spring tending eggs that failed to hatch.

The Department of Defense has identified 4,046 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Wednesday:.

Terrorist attacks against noncombatants more than doubled in Pakistan from 2006 to 2007, in part reflecting the growing violence in the country’s turbulent tribal areas .

For nine decades after the Bolsheviks shot Czar Nicholas II and his family, there had been no traces of the remains of Crown Prince Aleksei.

A look back at some of the highlights, lowlights and sidelights of the 2008 Four A’s leadership conference.