Rapper Foxy Brown has pleaded guilty to menacing a neighbor with her cell phone last year. She avoided jail based on time already served.

Citigroup Inc. said Friday it aims to shed about $500 billion in assets and grow revenue by 9 percent over the next few years, as it tries to rebound from massive losses tied to deterioration in the mortgage and credit markets.

What once was seen as a “magic mineral” has turned into a magic carpet ride for profiteering plaintiffs’ attorneys. That’s the gist of a report released this week by the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy, which takes the class-action plaintiffs’ bar to task for ginning up thousands of false claims of asbestosis while procuring too little assistance for the smaller number of real victims who suffer serious asbestos-related diseases.

What once was seen as a “magic mineral” has turned into a magic carpet ride for profiteering plaintiffs’ attorneys. That’s the gist of a report released this week by the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy, which takes the class-action plaintiffs’ bar to task for ginning up thousands of false claims of asbestosis while procuring too little assistance for the smaller number of real victims who suffer serious asbestos-related diseases.

After all this time, you don't associate Jeff Probst with traffic gridlock, yowling sirens, or office towers crowding the sky.

A $1 billion deal to build skyscrapers, apartments and parks over rail yards on Manhattan's far West Side appears to have collapsed.

French cosmetics giant Lancome and Uma Thurman are wrangling over the use of her name and image in an advertising campaign.

Even Donald Trump has strong feelings about New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez.

Cable TV provider Cablevision Systems Corp. disclosed plans Thursday to offer high-speed wireless Internet service across its coverage area in the New York region.

John McCain offered to hand out a few New York slices as he visited a fire station on a light day of campaigning Thursday.