(AP) The Big Apple is still the country's biggest draw. A yearly estimate from the U.S. Census says New York City grew by more than 53,000 resident...
New York City's hastily appointed seven-member Board of Education has voted to reappoint Schools Chancellor Joel Klein with full authority to run the...
There is nothing more depressing than realizing you weren't being cynical enough about politicians.
As the stalemate in the State Senate stuttered through its fourth week, a crucial deadline came and went: June 30. It was the expiration date of more ...
(AP) -- Apartment prices in the typically resilient Manhattan market plunged in the second quarter by the largest annual amount in decades, data relea...
There are some stories that you just don't know how to respond to. Consider today's news about plummeting real estate prices in Manhattan.
(AP)-- Joey Chestnut chomped down a record 68 hot dogs, capturing his third straight July Fourth hot-dog eating contest at Coney Island, an annual sh...
New York City's Fourth of July fireworks along the Hudson River lit the sky with a kaleidoscope of fiery colors shooting 1,000 feet into the air. It ...
Pedro Espada has been cast as the prime villain in the Albany mess--and he's giving an amazing performance in a role he loves. Politics more than ever...
It's a three-way race for Tavern on the Green -- and the hotly favored contenders told The Post exactly how they plan to transform the legendary resta...
Why does Bernie Madoff's wife inspire such vitriol?...
Cash-strapped New Yorkers are ignoring health warnings not to fish for their meals in polluted local waters, where the catch of the day comes laced wi...
When I heard the state of New York is giving welfare payments a tiny bump up, I marveled at how welfare has vanished from the political debate.
The good people of Brooklyn are getting tired of being a movie set. Who wouldn't sympathize? Almost everybody's neighborhood eventually becomes a backdrop for a movie or a TV show.
Carolyn Maloney will turn 62 next year, so if serving in the U.S. Senate is the be-all, end-all goal of her career, then she should go ahead and chall...
One of the things that distinguishes New Yorkers from most of our fellow Americans is that we know we're not really in control.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A former New York City nightclub bouncer has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the brutal murder of a graduate stud...
The state's new sort-of-lieutenant-governor is Richard Ravitch. It would be an honor to be appointed to the second highest job in the state - if it weren't for the fact that the whole deal is probably going to be thrown out in court.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York Gov. David Paterson says his new lieutenant governor won't immediately preside over a special Senate session because pen...
The Democratic Party has regained its razor-thin majority in the Senate, which it will be able to keep as long as no one on their side feels he or she could get a better deal by pulling a Pedro Espada. And they are now stuck with a leader who none of them would trust to send out for coffee
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent more than $36.6 million on his bid for a third term, blowing through $18 million in j...
Nicholas Arroyo, a 3-year-old autistic boy, spent the day strapped to a car seat inside a minibus after the bus driver and matron left him behind, pol...
Gov. David A. Paterson will delay his plan to force a vote on a bill to legalize same-sex marriage until early September because the Senate is too uns...
A Staten Island teen trying to text while walking fell into an open manhole - and city officials have launched an investigation. ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hopes were so high when the New York Mets moved into Citi Field. They had a new attitude in a new ballpark. They were going to put ...
