MTA, LIRR Union Contract Talks Stall As Potential Strike Date Nears
MTA Chairman Tom Prendergast will travel to Washington on Wednesday to ask Congress what its intentions are if an agreement is not reached by the July 20 deadline.
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MTA Chairman Tom Prendergast will travel to Washington on Wednesday to ask Congress what its intentions are if an agreement is not reached by the July 20 deadline.
Marc Ferzan, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christe's aide in charge of setting up and running the office for rebuilding New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy, is leaving the position for family reasons, the governor's office said Tuesday.
New York State was poised Tuesday to collect $3.3 billion from a recent record settlement with the largest bank in France, and the Cuomo administration plans to add it to the state's general fund.
Since July 1, researchers have been using air guns that fire every 5.4 seconds and emit about 250 decibels of sound.
Long Island U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday introduced legislation to set up a national toll-free telephone service, and a secure website, to attend to victims of hate crimes.
The de Blasio administration is spending $210 million on a citywide initiative to improve security at 15 troublesome New York City Housing Authority developments.
Immigrants who entered the country before turning 16 are eligible to enroll in the federal "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" initiative.
School may be out for kids, but it remained in session Monday for city education officials now in the process of hiring pre-kindergarten teachers.
Under legislation signed into law on Saturday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, patients with one of 10 diseases will be able to obtain nonsmokeable versions of the drug.
John Haggerty reportedly was scheduled to turn himself in Monday, but was given the extra time because he's caring for an ailing relative, Cornell reported.
In an article criticizing the "racism" of far-right voters, a West Village newspaper is now under fire for its own explicitly racist headline about President Barack Obama: "The N----- in the White House."
Shootings in the city are up 8 percent in the first six months of the year.
The fund that compensates those suffering from illnesses related to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks has picked up the pace of evaluating applications after a slow start.
The concern is that al Qaeda in Yemen is developing a bomb that could get around traditional airport security, outside of the U.S.
Some insurance companies participating in New York's health care exchange want to jack up rates, raising new fears about the cost of medical insurance under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
