New York City student Santiago Munoz spends five hours a day commuting to and from high school, recognized by the United Nations as the longest school commute in the world. Now the NY Housing Authority is giving his family a closer apartment, but his commute still takes around three hours.

Ever take a taxi cab ride and say to yourself, "You know, this is all fine and dandy, but it's just not sexy enough?" I know I have. An unsexy ride in a taxi cab can ruin your whole day. Fortunately, one hero in New York has a solution to this problem: the Sexy Taxi Song.

The NYC Taxi and Limousine comission’s program to allow people to hail cabs with a smartphone app like civilized human beings has been stalled yet again.

This is Great Jones Street in Manhattan. On the north side of the street, all the cars always park perpendicular to the curb. Except for this BMW, naturally.

A crash in New York around midnight claimed the lives of a man and his pregnant wife, and police are searching for the occupants of the BMW that hit them.

Going blind is a terrible thing for anyone, but especially people who enjoy driving. Former New York governor David Paterson is legally blind, but managed to finagle his way into a 14-lap run at a go kart track in Syracuse, N.Y. last week.

Kids! I don't have 'em, but I can only imagine how hard they are to keep track of. One minute they're with you, and another minute they're off sticking metal objects into the electric socket to see what happens. It's why my parents kept us locked in the basement most of the time. I think that's why they did it, anyway.

In what is probably a nightmare scenario for a lot of New York commuters, about 50 people were injured this morning when a ferry crashed into a dock in Lower Manhattan, according to news reports.

New York's infrastructure system is rather demanding. The next time you sit on the train, just think about what it took to restart the metro system after Sandy.

Hurricane/Snor'Eastercane/Superstorm Sandy ruined thousands upon thousands of cars on the East Coast in a matter of days. So where do you put all of these now ruined rides?