Markets kept the gains made throughout the day.  The Dow Jones industrial average gained 423 points, or 3.95 percent, to close at 11,143.31.  The S&P 500 gained 51 points, or 4.63 percent, to close at 1,172.64 and the Nasdaq gained 111 points, or 4.69 percent, to close at 2,492.68.

A Connecticut man was among 30 American troops who died in Afghanistan over the weekend in what officials described as the deadliest single day for U.S. forces in the nearly 10-year-old war.

The number of same-sex couples who call New Jersey home increased significantly over the last 10 years, according to the latest census figures.

It was an unusual site in Penn Station Thursday morning: a phalanx of NJ Transit's top managers lined up ready to be criticized by a ridership put through two days of delays and service disruptions after a derailment.

Wi-Fi will be available in 32 public parks within two years as part of a landmark, billion dollar deal struck between the city and cable franchises Time Warner and Cablevision.

If you've been wanting to visit the Statue of Liberty, best do it before October 28. After that day, the monument will close for a year long renovation.

Police are investigating a shooting in Brooklyn that shattered the back window of a car driven by New York state Assemblyman William Boyland.

WNYC's morning news producers bring you a rundown of today's must-read stories.

A who's who of New York politics filed into St. Patrick's Cathedral on Thursday to remember former New York Governor Hugh Carey, known for leading the state out of economic crisis in the 1970s.

Levi Aron, the hardware store clerk charged with murdering an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy, has a personality disorder, according to a psychiatric evaluation. 

The New York State Department of Health has ended Medicaid participation for the Bronx clinic founded and run by former state Senator Pedro Espada, Jr.

PHOTOS. WNYC began visiting the World Trade Center site in April 2010 and continues to document the construction of 1 World Trade Center, the 9/11 Memorial, the transportation hub and the people working on the site.

New York City will once again require middle schools and high schools teach sex education.

FDNY commissioner Salvatore Cassano defended the department's hiring practices against claims of discrimination on Tuesday when he testified for more than two hours in Federal Court in Brooklyn.  

A former New York City police officer acquitted of raping an East Village woman he and his partner were summoned to help was sentenced to two months in jail for misconduct on Wednesday.

Train traffic to and from New York's Penn Station began to clear up Wednesday morning as Amtrak finished repairs on a rail tunnel where a New Jersey Transit train derailed a day earlier.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 520 points Wednesday on a day that concern over the weakening economy continued to percolate on Wall Street and send stocks tumbling.

New York is a city of specialists from foodies to academics, laborers to shopkeepers. Every Wednesday, Niche Market takes a peek inside a different specialty store and showcases the city's purists who have made an art out of selling one commodity.