ALBANY, N.Y. — A New York assemblyman who at first vigorously defended wearing blackface, an Afro wig and a basketball jersey to a costume party...

There is something particularly poisonous about the kind of political opportunism on display at Brooklyn College right now. The rapid manufacture of a national controversy in this case reveals, once again, the tenuous state of academic freedom on our campuses.

Glenn Beck thinks the potential boycott of Israeli products by the Park Slope Food Coop is "anti-semitic," The Brooklyn Paper reports. The former ...

The election last week of Republican Robert Turner to Congress is significant for several reasons. One is that the result will be widely perceived as a rebuke to President Obama and the Democratic Party, which it is.

The possibility of an upset in the special election September 13 to fill Anthony Weiner's congressional seat should cause Democratic leaders some anxiety. The Republican nominee, Bob Turner, is running hard.

Two Brooklyn communities this week held tributes for Leiby Kletzky, the 8-year old Brooklyn boy who was kidnapped and brutally murdered earlier this m...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A young Brooklyn boy who vanished while walking home from a day camp in one of the safest parts of the city was killed and dismembere...

UPDATE: Leiby Kletzsky's body was found dismembered in Brooklyn Wednesday morning. Police say parts of the boy's body were found in the refrigerator o...

Brooklyn Democrat Assemblyman Dov Hikind is tired, apparently, of celebrities telling New Yorkers what the right, moral thing to do is in regards to g...

In the wake of this past weekend's attempted terror bombing, Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind plans to reintroduce his 2005 bill that would allow polic...

Outer borough whites, who were key to electing Ed Koch three times and Giuliani twice, were crucial to Bloomberg, too, even if this mayor has also attracted significant support from blacks and Latinos.