Some of the Big Apple's brightest buildings are joining a campaign to dim the lights while millions of migrating birds pass through town this fall.

Starting in November, a motorist who passes too close to a bicyclist on the road could be slapped with a ticket.

The NYPD has declared war on reckless bicyclists, slapping cyclists with summonses for everything from riding on the sidewalk to near-misses with pedestrians to disobeying traffic signals and other rules of the road.

On Monday, August 9, Brooklyn Borough President Markowitz joined New York City Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway, Lauren Collins, co-founder of the Windsor Terrace Alliance and area residents outside his home to officially commemorate Brooklyn going online for the City?s new wireless water meter program. The installation of an Automated Meter Reading (AMR) unit on BP Markowitz?s home was the 417,000th installed in the City.

NEW YORK [AP] — A prefabricated 350-foot-long bridge that will replace a 109-year-old span across the Harlem River arrived Monday aboard two barges that were pushed and pulled by tugboats.

NEW YORK [AP] — Another wave of oppressive heat clamped down on a broad swath of Eastern states on Saturday, with temperatures in the high 90s and 100s and residents scrambling for shade or just staying indoors.

In an effort to cut wasteful in New York City government, the city may consider charging for residential trash pickup. Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, also known as Mike's “hatchet man” proposed the idea, saying “I can think of 1,000 innovations, but . . . I have not yet had an innovative idea in any meeting that was legal.”

The 311 call system, a non-emergency customer-service hotline for New York City's many departments was announced in January 2002. Since then, the hotline has been redefining the way the city runs. New Yorker have been calling for things like, landlord complaints and for losing property in a taxi.

NEW YORK [CBS] — The power problems that impacted thousands of ConEd customers in Brooklyn were finally over Sunday.

Late Friday night the utility reduced voltage by 8-percent in the central and southwest parts of the borough due to problems with some electrical cables.

NEW YORK [AP] — During a heat wave this past week that topped 100 degrees, city firefighters battled more fires than in any other week in the past 30 years, according to the Uniformed Firefighters Association of New York.