Stan Alcorn

New York City has the nation’s fastest growing tech sector — and there are now more than 1,000 web-based technology start-ups in the city. But these signs of success are also harbin...

Cornell University won a bid to build a $2 billion graduate school in New York City earlier – but it didn’t do it alone. The Ivy League school partnered with an Israeli-based public r...

Thom Mayne, the architect behind Cooper Union’s perforated metal building at 41 Cooper Square, has been selected to design the first academic building of the coming applied sciences campus on Roosevelt Island.

The first ever digital newfronts — the Internet’s answer to TV’s upfronts, where new offerings are shown to advertisers — wrapped up at the Beacon Theater Wednesday night with Jay-Z performing "Empire State of Mind."

The federal agency that enforces employment discrimination laws voted Wednesday to make the first new guidance in more than 20 years on the use of criminal background checks in hiring decisions.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is marking another milestone in the Applied Sciences NYC initiative. He announced Monday that a second proposal for a high-tech campus will go forward in downtown Brooklyn.

The third annual NYC Startup Job Fair Friday showed a New York City tech scene in growth mode, so much so that companies, as much as job seekers had to be turned away.

New York State’s economy added 21,500 private sector jobs in March 2012, the State Labor Department reported Thursday. But in a sign that the economic recovery may be flagging in the ...

Contributions from the hedge funds in federal campaigns leapt from only $2.4 million in 2000 to $19 million in 2008. here's a look at the top 10 hedge funds donating to New York politics.

In the past few years, many theaters have moved up their weekday curtains to 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. from the usual 8 p.m. start times. Learn why theaters are making the move and see ou...

Moody’s warned that Cornell University's plan to build a high-tech graduate school in New York City comes with risks that could jeopardize their credit rating in the future.

The tech campus planned for Cornell may be the silver bullet for retail in a primarily bedroom community of 14,000 with no major employers other than two hospitals – one which will ...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the founding dean of Cornell's new tech campus on Roosevelt Island on Thursday, a move he said hopes will further attract and develop talent to the city’s growing tech sector.

As winter approaches, it will be more than the temperature that will be dropping for many low-income households. They won't be getting as much help with the heat after Congress cut more than a billion dollars from a home heating assistance program.