New York immigrant communities have helped make this one of the most culturally rich cities in the world.

The Irish brought us their drinking day. The Puerto Ricans brought us their traffic-stopping parade. The Italians brought us the Feast of San Gennaro, a massive Little Italy food festival that's so delicious it'll ...

Boxing matches didn't always involve glittering casinos and spiky-haired promoters. At its roots, the sweet science was a blue-collar sport practiced in dingy gyms or down by the docks (where gloves were optional).

Revisit the sport's raw brutality at Dumbo Fight Night, an amateur boxing showcase of New York's toughest brawlers ...

If putting out deadly blazes and shaking down perps were Olympic sports, New York City's badge men would win gold.

And now, thanks to the World Police and Fire Games, we can prove to the world that our police and fire departments ...

When the words fantasy and tennis appear in the same sentence, it usually includes a reference to Maria Sharapova or Rafa Nadal -- depending on how you like your grunts ...

The U.S. Open is a thrilling place to watch grand slam tennis, and, of course, be seen doing it. But you don't have to work as a ball boy just to score courtside seats for free.

That's because the US Open Qualifying Tournament at the USTA National Tennis Center is open to the public at no cost ...

Many people equate surfing in New York to bobsledding in Jamaica -- they're out-of-season 12 months of the year. Yet those dreadlocked bobsledders took the winter Olympics by storm.

Now comes an equally unlikely event: The world's most bodacious surfing competition and music festival, washing up on New York's shores ...