Times are tough all over -- and for many New Yorkers spending is taking a holiday this year.

Reporters from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism's NYCity News Service hit the streets and asked scores of residents throughout the five boroughs: "How will the...

Finding housing is a nightmare for any New Yorker, but the task can be particularly vexing for those seeking government-subsidized apartments.

There is no complete list of "affordable units," and the system is so haphazard and mysterious that many don't even know where to start.

Even as the city undertakes...

By Jose Bayona
NYCity News Service

The FBI investigated Geraldine Ferraro after her historic run for vice president, questioning the Queens Democrat for five hours about how she financed her first election to Congress, documents show.

At least one Reagan Administration Justice Department attorney wanted to put the politically...

There are eight million stories in the Naked City -- or 8,175,133, to be more precise, according to recently released U.S. Census Bureau figures.

NYCity News Service reporters hit the streets to put faces to the numbers in a series of stories that offer snapshots of who...

A first-time documentary filmmaker is outraged by the natural gas industry's "despicable" attempts to kill his movie's chances of winning an Academy Award.

Energy In Depth, a group sponsored by a coalition of natural gas companies, sent a letter to the Academy asking that Gasland -- a film about a...

Amid the backdrop of the midterm elections, NYCity News Service reporters fanned around the city, video and audio recorders in hand, and asked scores of New Yorkers: "What election issue affects you the most personally, and how?"

The answers were as diverse as the city itself:

•Mohammed Chowdhury, a...

By ALVA FRENCH
Oleg Mavromatti, a Russian performance artist and filmmaker in limbo in Bulgaria, wants your vote -- and he says his life could depend on it.

Mavromatti is wanted in Russia for a live crucifixion scene he performed in 2000 when he had himself nailed to a...

BY KHRISTINA NARIZHNAYA

Soviet dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn lived in fear of the KGB for years after his exile from the Soviet Union - even as the FBI was secretly watching him, newly disclosed documents reveal.

The Nobel Prize-winning author's FBI file shows that the U.S. law enforcement agency closely,...

The late U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, a North Carolina conservative known for opposing civil rights, was the subject of repeated threats during his tenure on Capitol Hill, according to newly released FBI files.

More than 90 percent of the pages...

New York is a city pulsating with music, a haven for singers and songwriters. In the latest podcast from the Reporter's Notebook, we bring you a special in-studio performance.

Three musicians from the New York Songwriters Circle talk to host Lonnie Isabel about their art and the changing...

Much of literature and journalism is about identity. Debates about contemporary issues – globalization, immigration, religious conflict– have identity as a basis.

Who are we?

How are we changed by the world around us?

What is our impact on others?

In The Reporter's Notebook podcast,...

Some 80 students from the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, home of the NYCity News Service, hit the streets armed with Flip Video recorders, and asked scores of New Yorkers: "Tell us one way the recession has changed your life."

The answers...