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Many cafes and coffee shops around the city charge for wireless connections, but rare is the charge for electricity.

If intersections are the city at its most intense, the places where the pulse of life quickens and unexpected things happen, New York is the richest city in the world.

Consider a detour to Long Island City, Queens, one subway stop from Grand Central Station, where there are inviting restaurants.

Cyclists are urging the installation of a protected bike lane on Queens Boulevard.

A park destabilized by construction and closed in 2004 is finally going to reopen.

Since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in August 2005, the Saints crowd at Bar None has grown steadily.

Halal Live Meat and Poultry Market in Queens was opened to serve the Muslim community, but has unexpectedly come to draw a broad, polyglot clientele.

Surrounded by vending machines and a hallway of lockers, the New Day United Methodist Church held services at the Bronx High School of Science.

The bear looms and there is financial disarray downtown. But the beat goes on.

She challenged the dreaded “major capital improvement” — which passes a landlord’s costs for improving rental property to tenants — and she lived to tell the tale.

West Side Rail Hopes.

A recent court decision will give students who made mistakes at Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn another try at an education.

Face-Off in washington square, a boy’s education and the art of the story.

These restaurants by the holiday market at Union Square Park won’t hurt your budget.

A school bus altercation among boys erupted into a snowballing series of events involving the police, the news media, criminal charges and a civil lawsuit.

Since the 1930s, truckers have favored the Clinton Diner, but many now avoid it because of an uptick in parking tickets on nearby streets.

After years of having little sense of the city’s geography or his place within it, a boy lets go of his mother’s hand — not altogether to her delight.

Fair Frustration.

A transformed park is poised to open, yet opponents of the redesign refuse to lay down their arms. Who really owns the city’s beloved public spaces?

For neighbors, the uncertainties of life without Long Island College Hospital are deeply unsettling.