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“My art is real. Every piece is about the celebration of tenacity, a person who’s down to go against all odds.”It’s 5:00 pm on a Saturday in Washington Square Park and Oriel Ceballos is grinning from ear to ear as he hands one of his…

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — In a first, the nation’s largest police department on Wednesday selected a black chief for its detectives squad, bringing diversity to a key leadership position as bail reform and other challenges loom. NYPD…

Alelia Murphy, widely believed to be the oldest American, has died. Murphy was 114 years and 140 days old, and had celebrated her most recent birthday in July.Healthcare union 1199 SEIU announced Murphy's passing, noting,…

Baldwin, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – An embattled water company is packing up and leaving Long Island after years of outcry from rate payers. New York American Water is being sold, but it’s not the change critics were pushing for. Plainview…

In a Brooklyn federal court, the U.S. government alleges that Jean Boustani, a Lebanese executive, took part in conspiracies to defraud American investors, launder money and commit wire fraud. But conspiracies require victims.…

The developer of the just-semi-opened American Dream and the Mall of America was the victim of a group of burglars who stole six figures worth of goods from his mansion in the Bronx over the weekend.The burglary took place…

The first boat to the mall leaves at 9 a.m., and surely you will want to be on that maiden voyage, because you will need time to absorb all the wonders the mall has to offer. This is the second largest mall in the United…

When my son was 10 years old, his babysitter, whose sole task was to pick him up from school and get him safely home via the subway, called me at work to tell me that she had “lost” him. That is the word she used: “Hi…

By Kate Hooker The day after Halloween is a great time to go to the movies, especially when you can see Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman on the big screen. That’s…

SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – Halloween is now full of scare houses and elaborate costumes. Its origins date back 2,000 years when Celtic tradition celebrated the end of the harvest with a day to honor the dead. By the early 1800s…