"I'm a man of few characters, so I'm going to keep this very, very brief," Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey told a crowd packed into Manhattan's Le Poisso...

Sources tell The New York Post Anthony Weiner will not be receiving an endorsement from Bill and Hillary Clinton in his likely bid to be New York City...

Six mayoral candidates battling for the endorsement of the United Federation of Teachers pledged Saturday to rid the school system of many of the poli...

NEW YORK — A former New York state senator who admitted embezzling nearly $88,000 from a state-funded nonprofit she controlled has been sentence...

NEW YORK — A bold comeback attempt or the height of chutzpah? In what could be the start of one of the most intriguing second acts in American ...

By Jill Colvin, DNAinfo Reporter/Produce NEW YORK CITY — The first TV ad of the mayor's race will hit the airwaves Monday, skewering its front-ru...

NEW YORK -- A New York state assemblyman is vowing to fight charges that he accepted $20,000 in bribes. Bronx Democrat Eric Stevenson tells the New Y...

NEW YORK -- It's a case that smacks of small-time corruption, with allegations of cash payoffs in parked cars. But the charges a Democratic state sena...

NEW YORK — There may be another billionaire interested in New York City's top job. Jack Dorsey, co-founder of the popular social media service ...

Vito Lopez, the embattled New York Assemblyman facing a litany of sexual harassment allegations from former female employees, allegedly also made inap...

By Jill Colvin, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer PARK SLOPE — Public Advocate Bill de Blasio officially launched his bid for mayor Sunday, surrounded b...

By Jill Colvin, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Michael Bloomberg singled out City Council Speaker Christine Quinn Friday as the ...

The race to be mayor of New York is in full swing, with no fewer than nine announced contenders seeking to fill the soon-to-be vacant seat. Candidates...

NEW YORK — Former New York Mayor Ed Koch (KAHCH') is back in the hospital for the third time in recent months. Spokesman George Arzt says Koch ...

Noah E. Gotbaum, a son of the labor leader Victor Gotbaum, can count on his family name for a boost as he runs this year for the office of New York Ci...

NEW YORK — A former New York City councilman will spend five years in prison for misdirecting hundreds of thousands of dollars for community pro...

By Jill Colvin, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer NEW YORK CITY — Joseph Lhota is planning to step down as chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Au...

By Colin Campbell The year: 1980. At stake: the presidency of NYU’s Weinstein Hall dorm. “It was a hotly, hotly contested race,” Public Advo...

By Nigel Chiwaya, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer QUEENS — Rep. Grace Meng made history Tuesday, shaking off her Republican challenger and long voting ...

Former Congressman Anthony Weiner, who was once hailed as a savvy "technophile" by The New York Times, appears to have officially returned to social n...

Two Republican state senators who provided pivotal votes to legalize same-sex marriage last year fought opponents to a standstill on Thursday in prima...

It’s Election Day in New York next Thursday! But instead of a titanic battle between ideologies–your Mitt Romneys vs. Barack Obamas, if you will...

I am running for mayor to counter the stale drift of ideas that have come from our city's Democratic and Republican parties. We don't need policies geared to just working families or the wealthy, but policies sustaining all families.

There is no question that the protesters have tapped a vein of frustration felt by Americans of all political persuasions. While the energy driving these protests in cities across the country may be new, the issues are not.

In May, Democrats pulled off a major upset in New York's 26th Congressional District, winning a special election in a district Republicans had held fo...