world gone mad

Brian Lehrer, the host of a daily radio call-in program on WNYC, will be answering selected readers' questions.

A reconstruction of an elevator’s problems in a South Williamsburg housing complex, which led to 5-year-old Jacob Neuman’s death in August.

Queens native Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama’s expected choice for attorney general, developed a public servant’s conscience during the racial conflicts of the 1960s.

The Giants receiver turned himself in at a police precinct to face charges of criminal possession of a handgun.

The refunds to companies that overpaid their taxes based on optimistic projections comes amid a budget shortfall.

Ray Mortenson’s photographs of the South Bronx in the early 1980s are featured in a new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.

A young boy offers some fashion advice, while another learns a new word.

A troubled teen from a Bronx housing project finds solace during his weekend trips to a camp in the Hudson River Valley.

Nov. 30, 2008.

Part of the 90-year-old studio of sculptor and Whitney Museum of American Art founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney is being restored.

U.S. Helicopter has remained grounded at its base of operations near Wall Street because the company that runs the heliport there lacks an approved security plan.

After nearly 15 years of fund-raising and false starts, an outdoor AIDS memorial has been dedicated in Hudson River Park in Manhattan.

Gilberto Blanco led a quiet, unassuming life as a day laborer before he threatened a police officer and was fatally shot in a bizarre encounter in a church parking lot in Coney Island.

The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine was rededicated on Sunday during a three-hour service filled with pageantry, dance and the booming chords of its restored organ.

The retired State Police colonel at the center of an investigation by the attorney general has threatened to stop cooperating with an inquiry he described as overbearing and abusive.

The 28th installment of an annual show remembering John Lennon is being planned for Sunday, even though corporate backing has evaporated and ticket sales are sluggish.

Many argue that the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has not done enough to protect churches from the overheated real estate market.

As the state and city grapple with their own budget problems, politicians are not rushing to champion the tax and fare increases needed to sustain the transportation authority.

Newly released e-mail messages show that the Bloomberg administration pushed for a larger suite and free food, and gave the Yankees 250 additional parking spaces in exchange.

For 28 years, Susan Krause, who uses a wheelchair and voice synthesizer, has braved city streets five days a week to work as a secretary and receptionist.