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The city yesterday unveiled a new etiquette campaign aimed to douse the flames of the hellish nightlife inferno that engulfs the Lower East Side on weekends.Here's the release on the pilot program via the city:The Lower East Side Quality of Life Improvement Plan is a multiagency plan to improve quality of life for New Yorkers living in one of…

The terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001 killed 2,977 people in one day, becoming the deadliest terrorist attacks in world history and the worst foreign attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor at the onset of World War II. It goes without saying that the attack itself was devastating and changed world history; the reverberations of those plane…

SOUTH BRONX —  PIX11 exposed a potential public health problem at a busy intersection in the Bronx Tuesday night: hypodermic used needles were found in open trash cans near a Bronx school. The city launched into action after our story. At 1:24 p.m. on Wednesday, photojournalist Darren McQuade found people shooting up drugs, just off of Melrose…

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — With the number of cyclists killed on the streets of New York rising, city transportation officials have unveiled a new safety program. It’s designed to give bike riders priority on some streets, CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported Wednesday. It’s called the “green wave,” a plan to re-engineer the timing of traffic lights so…

Repairs to the Charging Bull statue in Lower Manhattan began Wednesday, following damages sustained last month by a man who repeatedly smashed the bull's horn with a metal banjo.Arturo Di Modica, the Italian artist who designed and installed the 7,000-pound bronze sculpture in 1989, appeared to be present as the welder went to work.…