Arun Venugopal

Civil liberties lawyers sought to impose a restraining order on the NYPD in federal court Monday to stop the destruction of any evidence related to the alleged surveillance of Muslim communities since the September 11 attacks.

Labor activists and members of the Occupy Wall Street protests will converge at One Police Plaza Friday evening to protest police tactics, namely the use of pepper-spray against some of the protesters during a march last weekend.

The Census Bureau announced that the number of same-sex couples in the country was 28 percent lower than what it had earlier reported.

Following 80 arrests over the weekend, organizers of an anti-Wall Street demonstration are now facing possible eviction from the Lower Manhattan park that has been their unofficial base of operations for the past 10 days.

Jonathan Tasini, labor activist and president of Economic Future Group, and Arun Venugopal, WNYC reporter, discuss the protests on Wall Street.

About 80 people were arrested when protesters camped out near the New York Stock Exchange for more than a week marched to Union Square over the weekend, police said.

WNYC reporters, Arun Venugopal and Cindy Rodriguez, talk about what the latest census numbers say about poverty levels and other demographic measurements in New York City and the U.S.

New York state has the highest percentage of women who have never been married. That's according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which released the results of its annual American Community Survey Thursday.

Twenty-two people received great news from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation over the past week — they were named as recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship, otherwise known as the Genius Award.

Federal and state investigators arrested a dozen people in connection with the sale of illegal pesticides in local stores. The products, mostly imported from China, did not have any of the required regulatory approvals from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and, in some cases, were 40 to 60 times the EPA-approved toxicity levels.

Hundreds of demonstrators marched through the Financial District Sunday as part of Occupy Wall Street, an event organized by activists critical of corporate influence over politics and demanding higher taxes on high-income individuals.

A City Council sub-committee voted against designating a nearly-200 year old Federalist building on the Bowery a landmark. The vote was a rare reversal of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which had agreed to landmark the building in June.

St. Mark's Bookshop may be reaching its last chapter. The sluggish economy has taken it's toll on the retail business, but an online petition is hoping to help convince the book store...

The million-plus students returning to the city's public schools Thursday can count on at least one thing: more crowded classrooms. According to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, classrooms will swell by an average of 1.5 students, but he argued that the impact would be minimal.

The 15 people arrested at Rye Playland last week are considering legal action against Westchester County, according to their lawyer. The arrests took place after Muslim attendees at the amusement park became irate when women in their group were told they would not be able to go on rides if they were wearing headscarves.

Read Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, is located several miles from Ground Zero, but it's in this neighborhood where two strikingly different visions of post-9/11 America are taking shape. Two...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg refused to apologize on Sunday for not disclosing that Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith had been arrested before he resigned.

A ban on religious head coverings on rides at Rye Playland led to scuffles that resulted in 15 arrests when a group of 3,000 from a Muslim tour group celebrating Eid al-Fitr visited the upstate New York amusement park.

Despite the high-profile controversies over mosques and other related issues over the last year, Muslim Americans felt far more positive about the direction of this country than the general public, according to the latest Pew Research Center survey of Muslim attitudes.

There is confusion among Muslims across the five boroughs about when to break the month-long Ramadan fast because there is disagreement over how to determine the start of a new lunar month.