NEW YORK CITY-Acting Supreme Court Justice Daniel Conviser in Manhattan yesterday acquitted a construction crane owner and his companies of criminal charges for the May 2008 collapse of a crane that killed two workers at an E. 91st Street construction site.

NEW YORK CITY-A Manhattan judge has thwarted the utility company’s effort to oust developer Sharif el-Gamal from the controversial Islamic Cultural Center site.

NEW YORK CITY-The state's highest court ruled that agreements between Donald Trump and community groups to garner support for a West Side development expired in 2003.

ALBANY-The state's highest court yesterday confronted the issue of whether eminent domain should have been used to advance a massive private development in Brooklyn.

ALBANY-The state's highest court yesterday confronted the issue of whether eminent domain should have been used to advance a massive private development in Brooklyn.

ALBANY-A wildlife preservation group challenges the rezoning of a nearby property--for construction of a 124-unit hotel--due to the threatening of a rare butterfly habitat here.