Sandy wrecked hundreds of thousands of cars along the New York and New Jersey shorelines and could cost insurers an estimated $800 million, according to the Insurance Information Institute.

Every time there's a storm that damages large numbers of cars, that’s an opportunity for unscrupulous dealers to try to re-sell damaged vehicles.

WNYC Reporters Arun Venugopal and Ilya Marritz discuss new U.S.-census numbers out about median income and migration into New York City.

More: Arun's Report on New New Yorkers | Ilya's Report on Median Income

New Yorkers will face a $43 billion tax hike next year if Washington does nothing to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, according to state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who calls the planned tax hikes and spending cuts an "anti-stimulus" for the state's economy.

New numbers from the federal government show how incomes vary across New York and New Jersey.

New Yorkers will face a 43 billion dollar tax hike next year if Washington does nothing to avert the so-called fiscal cliff.

One month after Sandy, business is still very much disrupted in downtown Manhattan.

For the first time in its history, Nathan's Famous on Coney Island will be closed this winter.

A consumer group is warning that some people whose homes were damaged or destroyed as a result of Sandy may be denied coverage.

More than two weeks after Sandy devastated lives across New York and New Jersey, one strange reminder of the storm has come to light: a mass of dead fish near commuter rail train tracks in New Jersey’s Meadowlands.

The Passaic River in New Jersey isn’t one of those waterways with its source in a pristine mountain lake.

New York City is poised to spend half a billion dollars to repair public schools and hospitals damaged by the storm known as Sandy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Monday.

When Sandy blew through our region, the record storm surge flooded basements and roads, knocked out water supplies, and forced water treatment plants to close. A week later, all is far from fixed.

With another storm on the way, New York State is changing the procedures on home insurance claims following Sandy.

For someone without power,  that longed for moment is when the clock radio starts blinking 12:01 or the refrigerator's calming hum returns.

What if Facebook likes and Twitter posts could give investors clues about market trends? The idea may not be as farfetched as it sounds.

After months of rising joblessness, the unemployment rate in New York and New Jersey is starting to fall.

Four Freedoms Park, a memorial envisioned decades ago to honor the memory of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was dedicated Wednesday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and former President Bill Clinton.

Cornell University is for the first time detailing its plans to transform a 12.5-acre site on Roosevelt Island into what university officials claim will be the first information-age research campus designed from the ground up.