Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito Seeks Extra $5 Million For NYC Council
The move would be a departure from the belt tightening the City Council did over the past eight years.
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The move would be a departure from the belt tightening the City Council did over the past eight years.
The New York City Department of Transportation has been firing on all cylinders this spring, working to fill all the potholes left behind by the brutal winter.
Saying it would forever ruin the landscape along the Hudson River, Sen. Charles Schumer is urging LG Electronics to revise its plan to build a new 143-foot-tall North American headquarters in Englewood Cliffs.
Obama cited Census Bureau figures show that the annual earnings of women were 77 percent of what men earned in 2012, a difference that has barely budged over the past decade.
New York City officials on Tuesday unvieled nine camera-equipped trailers to be placed in highway work zones in an effort to deter and document reckless driving.
Student loan debt has surpassed the $1 trillion mark nationwide, surpassing credit card and auto loan debt.
A new poll shows nearly half of respondents approved of the job New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is doing.
Broadway theater – and live commercial theater around the country – would get a huge financial boost under a change in the federal tax code proposed by U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
The Smoking Gun reported Monday that Sharpton recorded conversations with associates in the mob using a bugged briefcase.
Laws against animals in New York are codified in the state's Agriculture and Markets Law, "which has seen little change in nearly 150 years," Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice said.
Heavy snow and red tape resulted in a disappointingly slow start for a pioneering program in Westchester County to use birth control as a no-kill way to thin the numbers of deer.
Some legislators are seeking assurances that revenue from new speed cameras will be available to help offset the cost of lifting the wage freeze. The assurance has not been given and state lawmakers haven't yet approved the new cameras.
Two people briefed on the decision say the son of the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts will announce Tuesday that he intends to seek the Democratic nomination for the state's 12th District.
A longtime aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie testified before a federal grand jury Friday, in a probe of the politically-motivated lane closures on the George Washington Bridge.
A man was arrested Friday after a candidate for Newark mayor's campaign bus was torched.
