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The city’s 311 information line was flooded with callers reporting the smell of maple syrup, or something like it, wafting across several neighborhoods.

A series of market reports on the fourth quarter of 2008 showed an abrupt decline in transactions, tottering prices and buyers who are still looking but unwilling to sign a contract.

The questionnaire, submitted to at least six people, asks potential appointees to detail their employment history, any criminal record and any loans or back taxes they owe.

It is not easy competing with a Kennedy, especially in New York, where two U.S. representatives and Senate hopefuls have attracted scant attention.

Jan. 5, 2009.

The Bronx prosecutor said that the tenants "created a death trap" by illegally erecting walls in their apartments.

Two moths after the mayor signed a law to extend term limits, lawyers for the city and a group challenging the extension argued their cases in a courtroom in Brooklyn.

At the heart of the case is the rigger's choice to use a worn set of slings to stabilize the crane, which eventually toppled and damaged several buildings, the Manhattan district attorney said.

The Emerald Inn, a tavern where the Guinness has flowed for more than six decades, has received a stay of execution, courtesy of the great recession.

A former high school dropout aced the city's G.E.D. exam and is now attending college, with her sights set on earning multiple master's and a Ph.D.

With the latest round of "State of" speeches headed our way, it is worth recalling where our leaders' hasty, unreflective actions have taken us in recent years.

Robert Cali, 57, has worked for the sanitation department for 22 years and is the garage shop steward for the Bronx 10 district, which collects 9 to 13 tons of garbage every day.

A community art project has left a lasting impression on the 86th Street station on the Upper West Side, as well as on the students who created them.

Tight financing has pushed back an initiative to create or preserve 165,000 residential units.

Eight people were killed on Sunday in a predawn fire that destroyed a two-story house in the town of Richland, N.Y.

A found stash of newspapers from the early days of the Great Depression offers a glimpse into a time that feels oddly familiar.

A grandmother encounters the brutal honesty of children; a young woman's first real drink.

Jan. 4, 2009.

A new rabbi from Nebraska, who once converted the head of the KKK in Nebraska to Judaism, is trying to revitalize the Free Synagogue of Flushing.

The rigger of the crane whose collapse killed seven in New York last year is said to have been charged for the deaths.