NIFA Declares Fiscal Emergency In Nassau County
The authority has rejected County Executive Ed Mangano's revised budget plan and instituted a wage freeze following a vote on Thursday.
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The authority has rejected County Executive Ed Mangano's revised budget plan and instituted a wage freeze following a vote on Thursday.
An upcoming event on Long Island will raise money for residents of Japan who have been devastated by the earthquake and tsunami.
Kathleen Rice's office has sent letters to local and state inmates jailed in Nassau County for drug or drunken-driving convictions.
A judge has dismissed all charges against four New York college football players who were arrested after a teammate was killed by a police officer.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver wouldn't say how much of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed cut to school funding would be restored in the budget. He would only say "some."
Demonstrators chanted "put it back" Thursday morning as they gathered on the steps of City Hall protesting cuts of $300 million to social service programs set forth in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's preliminary budget proposal.
Parents rushed to pick up their kids after a smell was causing students and teachers to feel sick.
As New Yorkers, we know that horrors visited upon us reverberate around the nation. That was true with Triangle. The conditions the workers labored under gave rise not only to the union movement but also fire safety improvements.
146 people – most of them young, immigrant women – were killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on March 25, 1911. At least 120 of the victims were either burned alive or jumped to their deaths from the 8th, 9th and 10th floors of the sweatshop near Washington Square Park.
Pepsi Beverages Co. was taking advantage of millions of dollars in economic incentives from the county and the state to stay in Somers, N.Y.
Brown suggested he was blindsided by the questions about Rihanna, saying the pre-arranged interview agreement he was aware of did not include his ex.
The City Council met Wednesday to look at a complete ban on cars in Central and Prospect parks, in part, to make things easier on cyclists who have been the target of a ticketing blitz lately.
Sylvenie Thessier of Queens faces three years in prison under a plea deal.
Eat, drink and take the subway New York. Walder reportedly said "I'm not sure a ban on food is really practical or enforceable."
The Countrywood Primary Center in the South Huntington district school said that a doctor had initially suspected MRSA "was a distinct possibility," but tests came back negative.
