Ilya Marritz

Is New York City better off than it was before President Barack Obama took office? With an election just weeks away, many variants of Ronald Reagan’s famous question to voters from 1980 are in the air.

The law of supply and demand states that as a sought-after good becomes more available, its price will eventually decline. Hotel beds seem to be bucking this law. This summer, more people paid more money to overnight in the city, even as hotels has added thousands of new hotel beds.

Standing atop a 70 foot pillar in a traffic island for over a century, the statue of Christopher Columbus at Columbus Circle has seen a lot of traffic go by. But soon the Italian explorer’s likeness will have comfier surroundings: a couch, a TV, and a coffee table.

Calling a state senator's allocation of taxpayer dollars an abuse of public trust, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Monday shared details of the charges filed against Senator Shirley Huntley of Queens.

A record payout obtained by a New York state regulator from Britain's Standard Chartered Bank to settle charges it laundered money for Iran could make a big difference to the state budget.

If there's one thing the new Republican candidate for vice president, Paul Ryan, adds to this November’s election, it's a strong contrast with Democrats on the issues of wealth and taxation. With an unusually large number of both very rich and very poor people, it's a choice that will affect the pocketbooks of many New Yorkers.

Millions of gallons of partially treated human waste have been released into the Hudson River since Wednesday, making the river a no-go area for boaters and swimmers, and threatening this weekend's Ironman triathlon.

A New York regulator accusing a British bank of helping Iran launder $250 billion is not the only authority probing the London-based Standard Chartered Bank – creating rumblings that Albany may have acted unilaterally.

A federal regulatory body will consider the issue of nuclear waste storage before making a decision on whether Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, located north of the city, will get its licenses renewed.

Thousands of athletes from around the world will soon converge on the Olympic Games. And it’s not just gold they’re after, but green. Sponsorships will earn swimmer Ryan Lochte almost $2 million this year, according to an estimate from Forbes. And even athletes who aren’t yet superstars have a chance to pick up some cash.

Food vendors selling everything from falafels and hot dogs to ice cream sandwiches and schnitzel will get a chance to weigh in on sweeping changes to the rules governing the way street food is prepared and sold.

The recent admission by Barclays Bank that it manipulated a key interest rate, the LIBOR or London Interbank Offered Rate, has raised questions about how state and local government finances have been affected in the U.S.

Officials in one of New York's wealthiest and most populous suburban counties say they are preparing to sue major banks for manipulating a key interest rate, which allegedly cost the county millions of dollars.

A decision is close for the future the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx. From a broad field that once included a film studio and a megachurch, sources say there are now just two leading bidders for the century-old landmarked building.

The nonprofit that has spearheaded many of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's biggest economic development initiatives over the past decade conceded in a settlement Monday that it illegally lobbied the City Council for projects, and has pledged to restructure to avoid further violations.

Demolition was underway Tuesday on the four-story brownstone in Brooklyn where workers are removing pieces of the masonry from the top floor of the building that collapsed a day earlier. 

Home prices in Manhattan declined slightly in the second quarter of the year, but what's selling has changed significantly. More people are buying co-ops than condos, and smaller apartments now represent more than half of all sales.

Portions of a three-story brownstone building in Brooklyn collapsed early Monday morning, but residents escaped without injury.

Officials in the office of Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes are defending their handling of an decades-old child sex abuse case in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.

The hype over new shoes is so great that some entrepreneurs have discovered it’s possible to make a living flipping shoes: waiting on long lines to get a sneaker before it sells out...