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The New York Yankees say longtime public address announcer Bob Sheppard has died. He was 99. His death was confirmed to The Associated Press on Sunday by team spokesman Jason Zillo. Zillo didn't immediately have additional details, but said the team would release them later in the day. Sheppard started ...

Most of the candidates running for New York State Attorney General say they oppose the NYPD's practice of retaining personal information on hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who are stopped and frisked, but not arrested.

Democratic Brooklyn Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries says he believes momentum is building to support a bill ...

Colombians vote in a run-off election Sunday and ex-pats can in New York can cast their votes in Queens and three other locations in the metro-area. In the first-round of the Presidential election in May, 15,000 Colombians in the New York area voted.

In recent weeks, volunteers with Colombia's Green Party ...

Two New York street artists have filed a free-speech lawsuit to block new regulations that cap the number of art vendors in Manhattan's busiest parks. One of the plaintiffs, Robert Lederman, filed a similar lawsuit in 2001 against the administration of then-mayor Rudy Giuliani, winning protections for artists selling their ...

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told graduates of Hostos Community College in the Bronx that the school played a big role in her family's success.

REPORTER: She said her Puerto Rican-born mother had put off going to college, and by the time she was raising two teenagers, she figured it ...

The MTA is cutting subway and bus service in a number of places--but a mile-long subway tunnel on the Lower East Side is actually being revived.

The tunnel will be used to weld together the eastern branch of the M line and the V line. The tunnel runs from the Broadway-Lafayette ...

Members of New York's Congressional delegation blasted the Obama administration this week for cutting city security funding, but Washington says hundreds of millions already sent to the region remains unspent.

In a letter from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to Rep. Peter King obtained by WNYC, Napolitano said ...

Mayor Bloomberg plans to visit London this week to observe its security camera network. In spite of budget woes here in New York, Bloomberg wants to spend $200 million on a similar network for Lower Manhattan, and eventually one in Midtown. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more.

REPORTER: The so-called "ring of ...

A new report shows New York and San Francisco are the only two metropolitan areas in the country where more than a quarter of the population usess transit. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein has more.

REPORTER: The report by the Brookings institution shows that nationally, more than three quarters of Americans commute to ...

Things appear to be back to normal in Times Square, after police shut down vehicle and pedestrian traffic for about an hour Fridayafternoon. An NYPD bomb squad checked out a suspicious cooler just a block from where a failed car bomb was found last weekend. Police officials say reports of ...

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn says she's disappointed about this week's manslaughter conviction of one of two men charged in the killing of Jose Sucuzhanay.

REPORTER: The Ecuadorean immigrant was beaten to death after walking arm in arm with his brother in Brooklyn in December, 2008. Quinn says the verdict sets ...

Authorities are continuing their investigation after New York City police found a potentially powerful bomb in a sport utility vehicle in Times Square.

A T-shirt vendor and a handbag vendor alerted police at about 6:30 p.m Saturday, pointing out that smoke was coming from the back of the dark-colored Nissan Pathfinder.

The MTA has trimmed $2 billion from its five-year capital spending plan. A state board rejected an earlier version of the plan last year, saying it didn't explain where all the money would come from. WNYC's Mattthew Schuerman has more.

REPORTER: The proposed capital plan outlines hundreds of projects that ...

The MTA says it'll have to reduce its expenses by $378 million, above and beyond the nearly $400 million in service cuts and layoffs already announced. Once again, the agency attributes the problem to a shortfall in the payroll tax and state budget cuts.

MTA officials say they've already identified $40 ...

New York City has started a time-banking initiative that allows people to barter their talents, time, and energy. Members will be able to pick up someone's prescriptions, for example, in exchange for an hour of Spanish lessons. Each hour of service that members provide gets them an hour in return.

The Easter holiday is an occasion that often inspires creative haberdashery.

REPORTER: Many New Yorkers will wear their spring-like hats to church. Others will don them at the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet festival along 5th Avenue. Marla Cook, Manager of The Hat Shop on Thomposn street in Manhattan recalls seeing ...

A week after JetBlue announced it will stay in New York City, and build new headquarters in Queens, the carrier says it's reducing its presence at New York City airports. American Airlines will take over 12 of JetBlue's takeoff and landing slots at Kennedy Airport. In return, JetBlue will get ...