Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said Monday that he has asked for the resignation of a Brooklyn assemblyman accused of sexually harassing female staffers, a scandal that ensnared Silver when he brokered a secret settlement with the women using public money.

As the sexual harassment scandal surrounding Assemblyman Vito Lopez continues to grow, there has been little public discussion coming from the Assembly itself, especially its female members.

The role the offices of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli played in a settlement payout has become the focus of attention as fall out continues from Assemblyman Vito Lopez sexual harassment scandal.  In June, Speaker Sheldon Silver approved a $103,080 settlement to two women who claimed Lopez sexually harassed them.

Controversy continues to swirl around embattled Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez, and has now enveloped the Assembly’s top Democrat.  As Lopez announced Tuesday that he would not seek reelection as the head of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, questions were raised over how a six-figure payout from Speaker Sheldon Silver was made to settle a previous harassment charge against Lopez — a decision Silver said late Tuesday was “wrong.”

As the GOP gathers in Tampa for their quadrennial convention, it may seem a world away from the deeply Democratic world of New York City politics. President Barack Obama is leading Mitt Romney by almost 30 points in New York state. But fueled by the tea party-inspired energy of motivated activists, Republicans are winning local office.

The question may be not if Assemblyman Vito Lopez cedes power, but when, political observers and members of the Assembly tell WNYC.

More than $31 million in campaign money is unaccounted for because government watchdogs failed to hold political groups and campaigns responsible, according to a report released Wednesday.

The city's brownfield cleanup efforts were on display in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Monday as Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that a new auto racing consulting business would call home what had once been a polluted lot.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s outgoing press secretary touted his boss’ efforts to make life in New York City better for residents over the past 11-1/2 years in a wide-ranging interview on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show Friday.

This year’s redistricting process, combined with an uncertain political climate, means it’s uncertain which way crucial races will go. But the big questions is, if the Democrats can’t win seats here—in the deepest of blue states during an incumbent Democratic president’s reelection year—what hope do they have of regaining the House?

Queens is being looked at for the home of a new Major League Soccer team, according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg will travel to Boston and Chicago this week to push immigration reform in the cities where the presidential campaigns are based.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly unveiled a new integrated crime counter-terrorism and crime fighting tool on Wednesday that will allow police to aggregate and track crime data in real time throughout the city.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday downplayed the limited scope of his role at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., next month.

New York is making it more difficult to buy synthetic drugs like bath salts thanks to new regulations put forward by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office and the state Department of Health.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg denied any suggestion that the recent drop in the number of stop-and-frisks conducted by police signaled an overall change in policy.

Goldman Sachs will invest almost $10 million in a new program aimed at reducing the recidivism rates of teenagers entering Rikers Island. It makes New York the first city in the nation to test "social impact bonds," which allow private investment in social service programs, which are typically funded by the government. 

New York City wants to move beyond bumper sticker slogans to help returning vets find employment.

Columbia University is the latest school partnering with the Bloomberg administration to expand its science and engineering footprint in the city.

Two weeks before his campaign treasurer was arrested for fraud, city comptroller John Liu’s campaign hired a consulting firm that specializes in finding electronic data, according to campaign finance filings released earlier this month