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All of Brooklyn can get behind these tan lines.Nets bikinis and other fun summer merchandise will be available on the Coney Island beachfront this season in the basketball team's signature black and white.The Nets Shop by Adidas - a 1,100-square-foot boutique - will open Thursday across the street from Nathan's at 3015 Stillwell Ave ...

ALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's plan to push Vito Lopez out of office for groping and harassing young staffers is not good enough for one the nation's most prominent lawyers and defenders of women.

Classes for dozens of Cobble Hill kids were held in Carroll Park Friday after city officials shut down the Linden Hill Preschool because the operators never got proper licenses.

The final recommendations of a two-year, $1.5 million inter-agency study of the Sheridan Expressway will be announced by the end of June, according to city officials.

A dead naked man was found sprawled out on the front seat of a muscle car parked on a Queens street Friday.

IT'S TIME for the United Palace to be a movie palace once again.

TO SOME, it looks like it landed in upper Manhattan like an alien craft. To others, it's a praying mantis devouring its young. To others, it is the proverbial sore thumb that sticks out.

Two people were clinging to life Friday after a car plowed into three pedestrians along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, officials said.

About 100 people rallied in Queens Village Thursday to urge the Port Authority to require airport contractors to pay workers decent salaries.

Brooklyn and Queens residents are getting left in the dark by Macy's Fourth of July fireworks for the fifth year in a row due to security concerns raised by the cash-strapped NYPD.Despite mounting political pressure, the Bloomberg administration has nixed Macy's proposal to combine the dazzling show on the Hudson River with an added East River display, citing a nearly $2 million tab for extra cops to protect viewing areas at the additional spot, according to ...

NEW YORK - The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx has a fanciful new sculpture exhibition that's hard to miss. Four colossal fiberglass sculptures of human heads dominate the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory Courtyard. Their features are made of faux vegetation including fruit, bark, flowers and twigs...

Cops busted a sicko who raped a woman in an alleyway near Brooklyn College, police sources said Thursday night. Eric Dancy, 25, is accused of attacking the 22-year-old victim near E. 27th St. and Glenwood Road in Ditmas Park on Feb. 2.

Two days after he was accused of harassing and tormenting eight young female aides, pervy Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez announced Friday he will resign from the legislature as of June 20.But Gov. Cuomo says that's not soon enough."As I said yesterday, there should be a zero tolerance policy when it comes to sexual harassment and we must now send a clear message that this behavior is not tolerated," he said in a scathing statement ...

Armed with gloves and rakes, a group of volunteers is walking into the thick of Forest Park Saturday morning to clear up a portion of deteriorated railroad line along the proposed QueensWay.The event, which lasts from 9 a.m. to noon, is more rigorous than traditional park clean-ups.Volunteers will need to use a rope line to navigate the steep hill down to the tracks off Myrtle Ave ...

Expect lots of hungover New Yorkers Monday morning. New this year to Prospect Park's Great GoogaMooga festival is a drinker's delight, featuring specially prepared cocktailsfrom some of the best bars in the city.

Sandy-scarred Coney Island showed new signs of life Thursday as famed Grimaldi's pizzeria reopened in time for Memorial Day weekend - the unofficial start of summer.

A Papa John's employee in Brooklyn was busted for delivering pizza pies with a side order of coke - and not the carbonated kind, officials said Thursday.

Two frisky school employees were canned by Education officials after agents from Special Commissioner of Investigation Richard Condon's office confirmed that they had inappropriate relationships with students.

Some bus stops could be eliminated along 125th St. in Harlem. Dedicated bus lanes could be added, commercial loading could be restricted and signals could be set to help buses spend less time idling at red lights.

When indigenous people from the South Pacific found themselves flying off the handle, they relied on the roots of a leafy green plant to help calm down. The native people used kava - a sedative that mimicks the effects of prescription meds like valium - as they worked out their problems.