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By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian NEW YORK, May 2 (Reuters) - New York City's upcoming public bike share program, Citibike, has already irked parking space seekers, food cart vendors and locals who resent seeing a Citibank sponsor logo on nearly every block....

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Composer and French horn player Matt Marks, 33, has just completed writing a vocal and orchestral work for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the biggest commission of his life, but this Sunday afternoon in March he's playing the ukulele...

NEW YORK — Sorry, but I've heard that Brooklyn is over. You can get your hipster mustache waxed; just don't do it in Brooklyn. You wouldn't go to Seattle now, would you? If you wanted to visit the American community of the moment, you would visit,...

NEW YORK – The timing is almost Hollywood, though the setting is urban and gritty. Or at least used to be gritty. With Bulls forward Carlos Boozer saying his right hamstring remains “sore and stiff,” there’s a good chance Taj...

Since being fired in 2011 from the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," director Julie Taymor has kept a relatively low public profile, her time presumably occupied by the ongoing lawsuit between her and the show's producers.  Taymor...

Investigators are focusing on a delivery of cinderblocks as being the cause of a steel roof collapse at a Fort Greene construction site. Officials say a 67 year old worker died, after falling 40 feet to basement. It happened around 9 this morning...

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A man was shot at 64 Monument Walk in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn around 6:45 p.m., and responding officers became also became targets upon reaching the scene, police said. The victim has been rushed to Bellevue Hospital in an unknown condition. ...

Con Edison is warning Brooklyn customers that, because of problems with electrical equipment, voltage is being reduced by 5 percent in certain neighborhoods. The neighborhoods affected are: Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bedford Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill, Fort...

Occupy Wall Street protesters took to the streets Tuesday as several groups set up shop outside city banks and other businesses to mark International Workers Day, or better known as "May Day." Among the locations demonstrators targeted were the...

When 49-year-old John Palecki sings the old tune, "Proud Mary", with his Brooklyn-based band, Melodic Soul, he may not quite sound like Ike and Tina Turner--or even John Fogarty from Creedence Clearwater Revival--two other 1960's era bands that turned the...

Something new is brewing at coffee shops in Brooklyn, but it's not a cup of Joe for your typical audience. You've heard about cappuccino, but what about babycinos? Spots that sell the beverage are in Park Slope, Prospect Heights and Fort Greene. PIX11...