There's fresh evidence the rental market in Manhattan is rebalancing in favor of landlords.

More than 1,500 geese were rounded up and killed in the city last year in the name of safer air travel, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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

The leader of the Senate Republicans, offering his first real criticism of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s budget, said the spending plan leaves too much unfinished and could result in a month-long delay in the process.

Mayor Bloomberg was a key witness before a grand jury that indicted one of his political consultants for stealing more than a million dollars from him, according to prosecutors in state Supreme Court in Manhattan on Tuesday.

Fewer than 23 percent of New York City's public high school students graduate from high school ready for college or work, according to the state education department. That contrasts with the city's official on-time graduation rate of about 65 percent.

The city says it needs more money from Albany even though it's overlooking millions of dollars at home, according to an audit by the city's comptroller.

Alternate side of the street parking regulations took effect again Monday, for just the fifth time since December's blizzard.

Traffic deaths are up slightly, but New York is still the safest big city in the country when it comes to traffic fatalities, according to 2010 data released Monday by the New York City Department of Transportation.

Mayor Bloomberg is putting pressure on Albany to end the "last in, first out" policy that requires new teachers to be the first to go during layoffs. But there's one small group of new teachers that would likely be spared.

Mayor Bloomberg called on state legislators Monday to make it harder for special education students to attend private schools at taxpayer expense.

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz was fined $2,000 by the city's Conflict of Interest Board for putting a top aide to work on private business.

A derailed Amtrak train in a New York City tunnel has forced the Long Island Rail Road to cancel 16 rush-hour trains out of Penn Station.

The power is back on at Newark Liberty International Airport after an equipment failure at a Northern New Jersey power station sparked an outage that left three terminals and parts of New Jersey in the dark, officials said.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg detailed a doomsday scenario for the city during a visit to Albany Monday in an attempt to get officials to restore funding that was slashed by Governor Andrew Cuomo when he unveiled his lean state budget last week.

PHOTOS. Hundreds of protesters from across the tri-state area recently descended on Times Square in a show of solidarity for those demonstrating against President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. Demonstrators rallied in front of the United Nations headquarters in late January and gathered at a rally in Times Square last Friday.

Opponents of congestion pricing are worried it's about to stage a comeback. Although confident that it would be dead on arrival in Albany, Queens Assemblyman David Weprin voiced concern about a possible resurrection.

In Trenton, legislation that would relieve local governments of requirements to publish legal notices in newspapers is building momentum as officials look for anyway to cut costs. This could mean the loss of millions of dollars of reliable revenue to an industry already fighting to stay afloat.

Cheap Chinatown buses that serve the Northeast may soon have official pick-up and drop-off points throughout the city.