By Jill Colvin, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer NEW YORK CITY — The city will spend more than $800 million this year on homeless shelters — an increa...

Those of us who live and work in New York City have an obligation to pay it back in some form by helping to make it financially stronger and passing it on to future New Yorkers as an even better place in which to live and work.

(Adds comment from Bloomberg, city officials, details) By Joan Gralla Feb 2 (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Michael Blo...

NEW YORK — The City Council on Wednesday approved a roughly $66 billion budget that will reduce the number of public school teachers, lay off wo...

In lean years like this one, non-baselined human service programs bear the brunt of heated political fights between our mayor and city council and are in deep jeopardy.

ALBANY, N.Y. — More than 40 elected Democrats made a rare attack on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his proposed cuts to the party's priorities of educati...

MANHATTAN -- Parents, students and teachers were reeling Monday after the city's Education Department released the list of teachers slated to be cut f...

NEW YORK — A $2.1 billion boost in projected tax revenue will keep the city from planning new cuts to services, but the city is forging ahead wi...

Andrew Cuomo released his statewide budget on Tuesday, outlining layoffs and cuts to reduce the current budget by $3.7 billion, "a reduction in spendi...

As Forest City Enterprises markets bonds for Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn -- which includes the most expensive basketball arena in the country -- I'm struck by how tenuous the whole thing is.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said better-than-expected tax collections in recent months suggest the city's multi-billion-dollar budget deficit might not be...