Despite calls for reform, many state employees still get "free parking" cards.

Earlier this month, New York Congressman Peter King held a hearing in Washington on the "Muslim radicalization in the U.S.," which drew fiery protests and condemnation. On Friday, another New York politician held a similar hearing in Manhattan.

As a possible government shutdown looms, a post office in Jackson Heights, Queens, on Friday morning alerts residents that it will remain open.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended outgoing Schools Chancellor Cathie Black a day after he announced she would be leaving the post after only three months.

New York State Education Commissioner David Steiner announced plans on Thursday to step down from his post, issuing a joint statement with State Board of Regents Commissioner Merryl Tisch.  The news of Steiner's departure comes the same day that Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the departure of City Schools Chancellor Cathie Black.

A federal bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of St Vincent's Hospital to a Manhattan developer.

At 92nd Street and 2nd Avenue sandhogs, or tunnel workers, are busily boring through rock and laying tracks. The 2nd Avenue subway line is a capital program of the MTA and when finished, is expected to run along 2nd Avenue from 125th Street to the Financial District. The MTA has more here. Phase one of four is currently underway.

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, who now leads a reform group, declared the Leader of the State Senate "an enemy of reform," and said senators have broken a pledge to carry out non-partisan redistricting.

A month after Rep. Peter King's congressional hearing on the threat of radicalization among Muslims, a New York state legislator is set to conduct his own related, and controversial hearing. State Senator Gregory Ball of Putnam County will chair the Homeland Security hearing, set to examine terrorism and threats to sensitive sites such as the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

The Bronx Zoo cobra that drew national attention after it went missing from its habitat will be named Mia.

Schools Chancellor Cathie Black, the controversial ex-publishing executive who took over the post three months ago, is leaving her position. Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott will replaced her. "We have mutually agreed that it's in the city's best interest," Bloomberg said.

The federal government is bracing for a possible shutdown if Congress fails to reach a budget deal before Friday’s deadline.

Just days after announcing he would run for re-election, President Barack Obama on Wednesday said his administration had more work to do but also highlighted his accomplishments over the past two years as commander in chief.

A Queens lawmaker who's pushing a bill to fight childhood obesity is getting attention for being overweight himself.

The dream outlined by Martin Luther King Jr. has still not been realized four decades later, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday at the National Action Network conference in New York.

The flakes have stopped falling, but the City Council hasn't forgotten the Bloomberg Administration's botched response to the December blizzard. The Council approved seven pieces of legislation on Wednesday designed to improve the city's planning, preparedness and response to emergency winter weather.

Governor Andrew Cuomo said the practice of issuing parking placards to state employees and elected officials "is prone to abuse" and he is planning to overhaul the entire system.

Details of the slayings at the hands of a suspected Long Island serial killer are sparse, but experts painted a vivid picture of the mind behind the killings based on past behavior of cold-blooded killers.

The FDNY is expanding a program that requires firefighters to follow traffic laws, operate at reduced speeds and turn off lights and sirens when responding to certain non-life threatening emergencies to Brooklyn and Staten Island after a successful pilot program in Queens.