The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently predicted that the downstate region of New York State (including all of the city, plus Long Island and the lower Hudson Valley) ...

In a nondescript basement office on Essex Street, sandwiched between a check-cashing place and a video store, three business partners nurture their fledgling solar panel company, poised hopefully on ...

Update: After a three-way Democratic primary, Kevin Parker, the incumbent, clinched just over 10,000 votes to beat out council members Kendall Stewart, who had 2,651 votes, and Simcha Felder with ...

The once-scruffy neighborhood of St. George, just opposite the ferry terminal on Staten Island’s north shore, has been experiencing an economic and cultural revival. But while places like Fort Greene ...

The MTA seems determined to blame New Yorkers for the mess it’s in. The authority’s latest excuse is that poor people who jump turnstiles are responsible for the MTA’s financial woes. The MTA and the ...

New York's criminal law is about to undergo a major change following the legislature's elimination of the statute of limitations for rape cases. Until now, unless charges of rape were brought within ...

An overview by Supreme Court Justice Emily Jane Goodman -- first published here three years ago, but nothing much has changed.

In New York City, a whopping 98 percent of residents have cable service available to them. Yet only about 46 percent of the city's households subscribe to the broadband Internet that cable can provide ...

In less than two years, Staten Island's Fresh Kills landfill, the last in New York City, will close. Creating an alternative system that will manage the post-Fresh Kills disposal of the 13,000 tons of ...

St. John's Episcopal Hospital South Shore should close about 81 inpatient beds. It should then merge with St. John's Episcopal Hospital and rebuild as a single 400-bed hospital serving the Rockaways.

On a rainy June evening in the office of Rev. Billy Talen's mayoral campaign a group of New York activists, part of the Housing Not Warehousing coalition, discussed how to find housing for people who ...