South Jamaica

Ask most New Yorkers how they're coping with the sagging economy and escalating prices and listen to a litany of small ways to save. "Now I skip breakfast," said Barbara Smith, 47, a home health aide from the Bronx. Smith, who makes about $380 a week,...

Curtis Jackson, better known as the rapper 50 Cent, is no stranger to controversy. His list of high-profile feuds is lengthy, surpassed perhaps only by the number of outrageous things he says. He has carefully cultivated the persona of a bully, an anti-...

Two rookie cops in Queens are under investigation for a scam involving overtime pay and possibly bogus summonses, police sources said. Earlier this spring, the officers, assigned to the 113th Precinct, wrote nearly 40 red light and seat belt summonses in...

Chapter One Tammy I love my life. I love my life. I love my marriage. I love my husband. I love my kids. I love my BMW, and I love my house. Oh, did I say I love my life? Well, if I didn't, I love my life. I really love my life. I stepped out of my BMW...

THURSDAY KENNY CHESNEY. Aw, man, we don't know how long we would have lasted with Renée Zellweger, either. (7:30p.m., Madison Square Garden, Seventh Avenue and 32nd Street, Manhattan, 212-465-6741. $51.50-$91.50.) MARK OLSON. The Jayhawks were never the...

Citing the brutal February slaying of Manhattan graduate student Imette Saint-Guillen, the City Council Tuesday proposed revamping security at city bars and clubs and ensuring that any law-breaking nightspots face stiff fines. "There is no enforcement,"...

The man already charged in the brutal death of Imette Saint-Guillen was accused Thursday in the earlier abduction of a female York College student while he posed as a law-enforcement officer in Queens. "This case is outrageous in its audacity," Police...

Police investigating the rape and murder of graduate student Imette St. Guillen Tuesday searched the South Jamaica home of Darryl Littlejohn and seized a car seat that he had removed from his van, police sources said. The van, a light gray Ford Windstar,...

The blood of a bar bouncer considered the prime suspect in the brutal rape and killing of John Jay College graduate student Imette St. Guillen was matched to a plastic packaging tie used to bind her wrists, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Sunday....

Remember Vivi? A handful of diehard searchers do. Tuesday marks the six-month anniversary of the wandering whippet's escape from her crate at Kennedy Airport after she competed at the Westminster dog show. Though Vivi's owners eventually returned home to...

During a monthlong sting of online sex crimes, Suffolk detectives said they netted two dozen Internet pedophiles by posing in chat rooms as young boys and girls and inviting men for dates to a rented house in central Suffolk. Caught in the sting were men...

- Playground Ninety XC, Northern Boulevard and 90th Street, Jackson Heights. B- - Bulova Park, 77th Street and 25th Avenue, Astoria. C - Reiff Playground, Mount Olivet Crescent, Fresh Pond Road and 63rd Street, Maspeth. D - Socrates Sculpture Park,...