NEW YORK, April 29 (Reuters) - With three carmakers vyingfor a $1 billion contract to supply New York City with newtaxis, Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday said the choice willbe based on safety, reliability and passengers' convenience. Full story
A Brooklyn seafood importer has been accused of illegally importing nearly 4,000 snakehead fish, a predatory freshwater fish sometimes called "fishzilla" that has been outlawed in New York state since 2004. Full story
A New York photographer killed in Libya used his lens as his "heart" — to speak for war-ravaged people desperate to be heard by the world, said the priest who celebrated a Mass for him Wednesday. Full story
NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) - Turkish manufacturer Karsan has promised to assemble cars in Brooklyn if it winsNew York's "Taxi of Tomorrow" concession, potentially returningauto making to the city for the first time in a century. Full story
The stabbing death of a Brooklyn man on Easter Sunday, reportedly because of a love triangle, could have been avoided, the suspect's daughter told NBC New York on Monday. Full story
Police have released surveillance video of a Brooklyn shooting last Saturday, and are asking for the public's help in identifying and locating the gunman. Full story
Police in New York City are searching for the suspect who shot an 18-year-old in a Brooklyn building. Contessa Brewer reports.
Brooklynite Jessica Mark is honored as Fan of the Week for her love of the show’s positive energy and humor and her appreciation of “Everyone Has a Story.”
A suspicious fire swept through the top floors of a four-story Brooklyn building Monday, killing two girls and a man and injuring several others, fire officials said. WNBC's Tracie Strahan reports.
Life has taken the singer-songwriter Lia Ices from London to a studio in Brooklyn not far from the Italian Ices stand where she gets her recording name. In this interview with Brian Williams, she talks about what inspires her mesmerizing music.
NBC’s Willie Geist reports from Brooklyn, New York, where 826 NYC is one of eight non-profit centers that have emerged across the country to offer free creative writing workshops and one-on-one tutoring to kids.
Firefighters stand on the fire escape as winds whip the flames from a five-alarm fire in the Brooklyn borough of New York late Saturday Feb. 19, 2011. Strong winds have meant several hours of work for hundreds of New York City firefighters trying to extinguish a fire that ripped through a six-story
Pedestrians walk past a pile of garbage and snow mixed together in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. The mountains of snow may finally be melting away from New York City streets after more than a month of waist-high drifts but now there are new problems: pot holes, garbage pi
Firefighters from the Fire Department of New York work to cut through the roof of a building, while fighting a major fire in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Feb. 7.
A firefighter from the Fire Deparment of New York climbs a ladder to move away from a flaming window at a house fire in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Feb. 7.
