Federal authorities plan to announce indictments of mob figures in several murders on Thursday.
The "Walk" signal saga continues, but now has taken on some personality.
Taking Questions: This week, Guillaume Dufresnoy, the incoming artistic director of the Big Apple Circus, will answer selected readers' questions about the show.
New York State's unemployment rate jumped to a four-year high of 6.1 percent.
Video: A boy from Brownsville, Brooklyn, brushed off teasing and bullying to make the cut at the usually for girls Holiday Classic Double Dutch Competition at the Apollo Theater.
The deputy mayor’s involvement in Caroline Kennedy’s Senate campaign is drawing the ire of some Democrats.
The transportation authority voted to raise fees and cut services to try to erase a $1.2 billion deficit.
A jury in Brooklyn acquitted one of the men charged in the fatal shooting of Police Officer Russel Timoshenko of murder charges, but convicted him on lesser counts of weapons possession.
A man protesting the M.T.A.'s planned fare increases was dragged out of a meeting by police officers who feared he was about to throw a shoe at the authority's chief executive.
Commercial brokers and developers had heavily invested with Bernard L. Madoff, whose business style mirrored the practices of the real estate world.
The Treasury Department said the Assa Corporation, which does business in New York, is a shell company that launders money for an Iranian bank with ties to terrorist groups.
The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association said changing the pension was breaking a promise to new recruits, while labor experts debated the merits of the plan.
The City Council is prepared to approve the mayor's proposal to raise property taxes by 7 percent and to increase a tax on hotel rooms to more than 5 percent per room.
Amid the financial crisis, winnings from a lawsuit that promised billions of dollars in financing for New York City schools have evaporated.
The school said it would continue to operate the Little Room, a preschool for special-needs children, until all of the current students finished the program.
The financing battle is over a year-old state order to increase the amount the city pays providers of subsidized day care to make it closer to market rate.
Inside the Brooklyn motherhouse in Fort Greene, where nuns of the Walking Sisters spend their last days before moving elsewhere.
The tables are still set at the Park Avenue home of William F. Buckley Jr.
An art curator, Kenneth S. Moser, is restoring the portraits that hang in City Hall.
Congressman Charles B. Rangel has challenged a recent Times article. This graphic presents a point-counterpoint between Mr. Rangel and The Times.
An organization cites recent killings in charging that United States is not living up to its human rights obligations.
One man's campaign to bridge the divide between a wealthy, majority white school district and a working-class, overwhelmingly minority district.
The owners of Saigon Grill were a classic example of the immigrant success story before they were accused of exploiting their workers.
Caroline Kennedy made stops in Syracuse and Rochester, carefully listing her qualifications to become New York’s next United States senator.
A block along Broadway on the Upper West Side once illustrated the jumbled vitality along Broadway. It now shows the street’s growing big-box monotony.
Guillaume Dufresnoy, the incoming artistic director of the circus, will answer selected readers’ questions this week.
The new photography series by James Hill, an English photographer living in Russia, shares his images and impressions from a two-week visit to New York City.
The Times's Sam Roberts recounts the life of Caroline Kennedy in New York and discusses her bid for the Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Since 1912, the fund has provided direct assistance to children, families and the elderly in New York.
A Brooklyn man's plans to travel fell apart after he lost his job as a baggage handler.
Majora Carter, an environmental crusader, has come a long way from her native South Bronx. Now she’s moving to a national stage.
Moms try to keep up traditions, and absent dads, halfway through their deployment in Iraq, turn to laptops to play Santa.
In his weekly podcast, Sam Roberts reflects on how our complex election laws and personal animosities affected political maneuvering in 1950, and how they continue to do so today.
An inside look at stories affecting New Yorkers. With Sam Roberts, Saturdays at 10 p.m. and Sundays at 10 a.m. on NY1 News.
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