This week, the New York Foundation for the Arts awarded $100,000 to eight small dance companies through its BUILD program. Its goal is to help strengthen dance organizations by investing in their management and infrastructure. But it's not the only group pushing artists to rethink their funding models. WNYC's Brigid ...

More than 5,000 seats are still available in the city's pre-kindergarten classes and City Council members are trying to spread the word.

Council Speaker Christine Quinn and other Councilmembers are distributing flyers across the city to encourage parents to sign up their four-year-olds by Friday.

Although October 31st is not the last ...

People gathered in groups large and small to watch the Palin-Biden showdown last night.

Twenty-six-year-old Paul Banister thought Sarah Palin held her own.

PALIN: I actually think she didn't have a lot of specifics but she didn't fail. I had a lot of people texting me, saying, "Oh, this is terrible." But ...

While lawmakers try to find a solution for Wall Street's financial crisis,local artists are bracing for a dip in the corporate dollars that support some of their work.

REPORTER: The non-profit arts advocacy group The Field hosted close to 100 local artists at Joe's Pub for a discussion about alternative funding ...

Republican delegates gathered for their national convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, are in a wait-and-see mode, as party officials monitor the hurricane pounding the Gulf Coast. New Jersey's delegation has turned its hospitality hotel suite into a donation center for hurricane victims. Meanwhile, other delegates continue to unite behind John ...

A new study suggests the risk of earthquakes to New York City is substantially greater than previously thought.

A group of Columbia University seismologists says new analysis using modern instruments reveals potentially powerful seismic structures beneath the New York region, like a formerly unidentified intersection of two active seismic zones under ...

After negotiating through the night and into the early morning, Con Edison has reached a tentative contract agreement with the union representing 9,000 of its workers, averting a possible strike.

A weary-sounding Joe Flaherty, who's a spokesman for the union Local 1-2 says both sides documented their agreement in a "memorandum ...

The National Trust for Historic Preservation recently added the Lower East Side to a list of "endangered places." For local artists and arts organizations, there's a sense they feel endangered too – but some have found strategies for survival. Brigid Bergin has this report.

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REPORTER: Tyne Daly and Eartha Kitt - just some of the stars who gathered to toast Edward Albee at the Rainbow Room last night.

The evening was a birthday celebration for the playwright and soon-to-be octogenarian who's written modern classics including "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "The Goat."

Albee's actual birthday ...

The age gap showed up in exit poll results for Democrats in New York and New Jersey. In New York, 3 in 5 voters over 60 chose Clinton, while 3 in 5 voters under 30 chose Barack Obama. In New Jersey exit polls, Obama got about 60% of voters ages ...

The Staten Island Composers Project is culminating this weekend with a live performance of works by David Johansen of The New York Dolls, Galt MacDermot, the composer of Hair and Vernon Reid, founder of the ’80s funk band Living Colour. All three are Staten Island residents who were given a ...

The taxi strike is being greeted by many New Yorkers with a shoulder shrug and a "whaddaya gonna do?" attitude. But some are feeling the effects strongly. Drivers who are not on the road say it's worth losing some money to keep GPS technology out of their cabs and some ...

The 65th Infantry was the only all Puerto Rican regiment in the history of the U-S military. The soldiers were known as The Borinqueneers. Tonight in the Bronx, the New York debut of a new film about the fabled regiment will take place at Hostos Community College in the Bronx. ...