Though Election Day 2013 is still far away, it's the first time the city will have a new top dog in 12 years, so the mayoral race will get intense early, bringing out all the political dreamers who were unable to get into Gracie Mansion over the past generation.
Done deal. Both Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayer Michael Bloomberg have signed a controversial bill that will allow livery cabs to pick up passengers off the street throughout the five boroughs. Bloomberg alluded to the coming deal in a press conference on Wednesday where he celebrated the 50 millionth tourists to visit New York City.
Occupy Wall Street registers as one of the biggest surprises of 2011. Despite constant criticisms that it lacked a concrete set of goals or demands, Occupy Wall Street's broad critique of economic injustice resonated with a country still grappling with the fallout from the financial crisis. A timeline of the movement.
NYU is considering a project that would turn the large building at 370 Jay Street, currently owned by the MTA, into the Center for Urban Science and Progress. The new facility would be an attempt to attract top talent from scientists and engineers around the world.
This year was a turning point in the history of Silicon Alley. Investments flooded into many young companies, and Mayor Bloomberg and Cornell University bet big on the future of New York technology.
Tourism is a plague that threatens to destroy culture and society.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced that he spoke with Governor Andrew Cuomo this morning, and that they've come away from their conversation convinced they'd be able to reach an agreement for the outer-borough taxi bill.
A firefighter trapped in the third floor of a Brooklyn building has suffered burns over approximately 42 percent of his body, Mayor Michael Bloomberg told those at a press conference scheduled to announce the new Cornell science campus agreement. The mayor had arrived late because of the tragic situation, which unfolded moments before the press newser was about to start.
California's Stanford University, one of the top engineering schools in the United States, said on Friday it had dropped out of the bidding to build an applied sciences and engineering college campus in New York City.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ruled that holiday decorations will not be hung this year in the Staten Island Ferry stations.
Steven Rattner, the former head of the United States auto task force and dubbed President Barack Obama's car czar, called the auto industry's 2009 bailout an unambiguous success Thursday. But he acknowledged that taxpayers, footing the $82 billion bill to bail out Chrysler, General Motors and Ally Financial, will lose about $14 billion of their investment.
From humble pushcart to hipster food truck, New York City street food isn't what it used to be.
New Jersey Nets owner and Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is planning a presidential run-against Vladimir Putin in the March 2012 Russian Presidential election. For the first time the United States now faces a frightening billionaire gap.
Police officials are offering a $10,000 reward for the robbery suspect after a 22-year veteran of the NYPD was shot and killed in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn.
A decorated NYPD police officer was shot in the face and killed while responding to a break-in robbery at a Brooklyn apartment on Monday, according to reports.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended police handling of the Occupy Wall Street protesters and also of journalists, during his weekly radio address. Congressman Jerrold Nadler has called for an investigation.
On Thursday, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said Occupy Boston protesters have until midnight to pack up and abandon their encampment or police may be forced to take appropriation action.
Diana Taylor, who is the girlfriend of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and is a Sotheby's board member, has threatened to resign if any demands of the auction house's art handlers are met.
Facebook, the social-networking giant that is preparing to go public, said it plans to hire thousands of employees over the next year to keep up with what it expects to be rapid growth.
Facebook, the social networking giant that is preparing to go public, said it plans to hire thousands of employees over the next year to keep up with what it expects to be rapid growth.
Facebook, the social networking giant that is preparing to go public, said it plans to hire thousands of employees over the next year to keep up with what it expects to be rapid growth.
Facebook will open an engineering office in New York, the company announced at an impromptu event at its site there Friday.