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The city of New York is using eminent domain to seize a family-owned dry-cleaning business and offering the owners only about 30 percent of the value. “The city has offered my family about 30 cents on the dollar on the market value for what our three lots are worth — that’s not enough to buy ...

Escape plans and bugout bags are the latest fad for wealthy New Yorkers. Some Wall Street types even are paying $7,500 a month for an evacuation service to get them out of town fast during an emergency. “It’s a marine ...

  WASHINGTON — New Yorkers enjoy the least freedom in America, while New Hampshire citizens enjoy the most, according to a new report, Freedom in the 50 States, that examines the best states in which to live.   The report ...

Who would have thought that a chicken restaurant could cause such a firestorm of strife? Earlier this month, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio made headlines when he called for a controversial boycott of a Chick-fil-A that opened in ...

Nassau, New York, could be the first town in the United States voluntarily to go completely off the grid. The town board is so fed up with unreliable service from the local utility that it is planning to look into ...

A family in New York State was threatened with scrutiny by a social worker because parents chose to homeschool their son, the Home School Legal Defense Association says. The dispute began in Mid-August when the unidentified family in the Minisink ...

There’s a new addition at some upstate New York schools that may make many parents uneasy. Workers from Erie County Child Protective Services (CPS) will have a physical presence in each school, monitoring children every week. “So, instead of having ...

Government agencies can track your every move by using the E-ZPass electronic toll collection devices that make driving on toll roads so much easier, the ACLU is alleging. To make matters worse, some cybersecurity experts say the devices could be ...

Marine veteran Elizabeth Elderli is facing a possible prison sentence of up to 15 years for carrying two pistols for which she had concealed weapons permits to the entrance of the September 11 memorial in New York City, even though ...

One of the nation’s most ambitious gun registration schemes is a total failure, according to new statistics. It is estimated that less than five percent of what gun control groups call “assault weapons” have been registered in New York state, ...