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The highly-anticipated East River Ferry, took its maiden voyage this morning and most tweets suggest it's a good, quick alternative to overcrowded tra...
GREENWICH VILLAGE -- Security video shows two dozen youths unleash a rampage in a Greenwich Village Dunkin' Donuts, overturning tables and coffee mach...
An announcement in Brooklyn this morning from Mayor Michael Bloomberg will make it easier for the more than one million New Yorkers who don't have hea...
From the hundreds of bodies that packed into Mount Sinai Synagogue in Brooklyn Heights, it was apparent Hope Reichbach -- who passed away on Thursday ...
NEW YORK -- City politicians are calling on federal regulators to start making use of a little-known provision in the sweeping financial reform bill p...
NEW YORK -- Hundreds of New Yorkers rallied on the 43rd anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination Monday night, calling for the passage o...
Could affordable rentals be an upside to the economic downturn? From Crain's New York: Nearly two years after unveiling its $20 million Housing Asse...
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn recently announced that she plans to hold hearings next month over the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, a bill int...
Considering political campaigns as conducted on a four-year cycle, we are now in the second lap of the race to succeed Mayor Bloomberg.
In Christine Quinn we can see leadership and values reflecting the cosmopolitan and diverse mosaic that is the Big Apple. The time is right for her and New York is ready for a woman in the top post.
Across the country, we've seen that when Walmart sets up shop in poor neighborhoods, they do more harm than good. Nationally, when Walmart enters a new market, it kills three jobs for every two jobs it "creates."
City Council members will pepper Bloomberg administration officials over the city's sluggish response to last month's crippling snow storm. At th...
1. The intersection of food, culture and class is a conversation we might finally be ready to have...
MANHATTAN -- City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has shelved a proposed bill that would have given workers at small businesses paid sick days, effect...
With all the emphasis on economics, something terribly important was lost during the sick leave debate: is it fair to deny over one million working New Yorkers the right to take off of work to recover from illness?
The other shoe dropped Tuesday for Hiram Monserrate. The first state Senator to be expelled from that body since 1781, Monserrate was indicted by a Federal grand jury.
Mayor Bloomberg has paid sick days. So, it's hard for him to understand how the other half lives. The other half being the nearly 50% of New Yorkers who lack a single paid sick day.
The case against a proposed law requiring paid sick days in New York City is falling apart. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn should change her current course and embrace the bill as her own.
A bill in the City Council that would guarantee every worker paid sick leave is being held up by a small group of business owners.
Despite having a veto-proof number of supporters in the City Council, a bill that would guarantee workers the right to earn paid sick leave is being stalled by the business community.
MANHATTAN -- Ten executives at the now shuttered St. Vincent's Hospital were paid a staggering $10 million per year in wages, a new lawsuit claims. T...
Former Mayor David Dinkins let his finger do the talking outside Rep. Charlie Rangel's birthday party last night. Dinkins flipped off a protester be...
NEW YORK — New York's Democratic political establishment came out in force for embattled U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel on Wednesday, packing a sold-o...
It might not be the happiest of birthdays for Rep. Charlie Rangel, but it looks like his party will boast significant star power. Rangel is facing an...
