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Rescuers working amid gusty winds, cold temperatures and billowing smoke pulled four additional bodies overnight from the rubble of two Manhattan apartment buildings, as the death toll rose Thursday to at least seven from a gas leak-triggered explosion that reduced the area to a pile of smashed bricks, splinters and mangled metal. The explosion Wednesday morning in East Harlem injured more than 60 people, with searchers still trying to locate others a day later.

Oogity boogity boo. Even as science shows that climate change is very real, something we can even see with our own eyes as the ice around both poles melts rapidly, some people still can't get over the mystical new nature created by the evil Wizard Global Warming.

The election of Bill de Blasio as mayor of New York City creates a powerful opportunity to turn the core vision of the Occupy Wall Street movement, as well as the core teachings of Pope Francis about economic justice, into the daily workings of city government in the global center of media and finance.

Matthew Martoma, convicted of insider trading, used secrets he culled from doctors about an experimental Alzheimer's drug to earn more than a quarter billion (yes, that's a 'b') in illegal trades. He was a portfolio manager for the very wealthy Stephen A. Cohen, who may have also been involved in the scam.

New York Rep. Michael Grimm is defending his actions after he physically threatened a reporter at the Capitol after President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.

Thirty-two people, including several prominent politicians, were arrested for participating in a march and act of civil disobedience yesterday as they blocked traffic on the 94th street bridge to protest low wages and subpar standards for workers at LaGuardia Airport. The protest coincided with the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and was a rallying call for new Mayor Bill DeBlasio to help these workers in their fight out of poverty.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., already beset by other costly legal woes, has agreed to pay $1.7 billion to settle criminal charges that it ignored obvious warning signs of Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, federal authorities said Tuesday. The $1.7 billion represents the largest ever forfeiture by a U.S. bank and the largest Department of Justice penalty for a Bank Secrecy Act violation, the government said.

A man involved in a custody dispute who was supposed to turn his 3-year-old son over to the boy's mother instead threw the child off the roof of a 52-story Manhattan apartment building before jumping to his death, police said.

One worker died and two others were injured after a retaining wall collapsed in Maybrook, NY, last week. Halmar International, which owns the three-acre site where the incident occurred, is doing work on a $21.2 million project for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection to rebuild parts of the Catskill Aqueduct.

Amazingly, ground zero responders to the September 11th attacks in New York City have hit a number of snags in obtaining compensation and treatment for a host of disaster site-related issues, even 12 years later. So far, only a tiny fraction of the 11,000 registrants for eligibility have had their claims pushed through.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit by a former bank examiner who says she was dismissed after finding fault with Goldman Sachs’ conflict-of-interest policies. In its motion to dismiss Segarra’s lawsuit, the Fed disputed that she is a whistleblower and characterized what transpired as “a non-actionable disagreement between a supervised employee and more senior colleagues over how to interpret a Federal Reserve policy.”

Mayor Bloomberg's best chance to get his Stop-and-Frisk law back on the books was dashed when courts ruled that Judge Shira Scheindlin did not in fact engage in ethics violations when she ruled against the Mayor's signature street safety law.