Fred Mogul

The city added more corporate allies Tuesday in its year-old campaign to curb sodium in processed foods. Hostess, Butterball, Snyder’s of Hanover and three other companies pledged to participate in the New York-led “National Salt Reduction Initiative.”

Mayor Bloomberg and congressional officials from New York and New Jersey are fanned out across Capitol Hill Tuesday to build support for the James Zadroga 9/11 Health Care Bill. 

Mayor Michael Bloomberg lobbied a handful of Republican senators on Capitol Hill Tuesday in support of the 9/11 health care bill. Supporters say it's now-or-never to pass the bill, because the Democrats will lose a substantial number of seats in both houses of Congress come January.

According to a report by the City Health Department, one in four New Yorkers ages 12-to-20 told surveyors that they drank alcohol in the past month -- and they were more likely than adults to report binge drinking.

 

It could be days before there's an accurate count of those opting into the 9/11 health settlement. Lawyers say they're close, but they need 95 percent of some 10,000 plaintiffs to o...

Mayor Bloomberg's multi-billion dollar fortune will be managed a company the Mayor owns. The disclosure came yesterday in a City Conflicts of Interest Board filing.

Governor Paterson has a message to voters who want reform in Albany that will make politicians more accountable and less corrupt: don't expect anything from the person you choose as governor, unless you're prepared to vote legislators out of office.

"There's that hope that springs eternal in the human ...

The city's November ballots could make it tough for voters to connect the dots.

Government retirees have been promised more than 200 billion dollars worth of health benefits, and but state and local governments have set aside no money to pay for them, according to a report by the Empire Center for New York State Policy, a conservative think tank.

Nicole Paultre Bell, the 26-year-old woman who was engaged to marry a man killed by police four years ago, will be on the November ballot for City Council. Paultre Bell is running to...

On Monday, police arrested a ninth suspect in a set of alleged, violent anti-gay attacks earlier this month. Twenty-two-year-old Rudy Vargas Perez is allegedly a member of the Latin Kings Goonies, a group police say is a loosely-organized street gang accused of kidnapping and torturing a 30-year-old man and two teenagers in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino said Sunday that he takes a "live and let live" approach to gay people -- but he doesn't want kids growing up to think that they are...

They traded on nostagia and faded out in the 1980s. But now they're back. Today, Chock Full o'Nuts, the self-proclaimed purveyer of "heavenly coffee," is opening its first eatery in New York City in almost 30 years.

Qualifying matches get underway Tuesday for the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadow. The men’s seeds were announced Monday, with Rafael Nadal taking the top slot. The Spaniard , ranked No. 1, is trying to win the only Grand Slam missing from his trophy case. Roger Federer, who’s won five of the last six U.S. Opens is the second seed.

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Two months after St. Vincent's Medical Center closed its doors, another much smaller Manhattan hospital is doing the same.

After years of financial struggle, North General Hospital is declaring bankruptcy and will begin winding down operations on Friday. But under a deal with the state, a ...

WNYC reporters Fred Mogul and Matthew Schuerman discuss the new ground zero settlement, which awards plaintiffs $712.5 million.

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The state's largest hospital network has grown a little bigger. Struggling Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side will join Northshore-Long Island Jewish.

The now 15-hospital Northshore network has been moving steadily west from Nassau County to Queens and Staten Island. Acquiring Lennox Hill gives ...

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Gov. David Paterson wants to eliminate sales tax on bottled water and low-calorie drink. He's hoping the proposal will sweeten the soda tax he wants lawmakers to pass -- and that the legislature and the beverage industry have found hard to swallow.

The latest proposal would ...

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Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has an educational pedigree that includes Princeton, Oxford, and Harvard, but she’s proud enough of her roots in New York City that she always tells the world she went to Hunter College High School too.

"You will not see that many ...

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Under a new ruling by New York’s highest court, same-sex parents are guaranteed consideration for custody or visitation in the event of divorce or death. Previously, the non-biological partner had these rights, but only if that parent legally adopted the shared child.

The ruling does not ...