Julianne Welby

The city's eighth-graders are beginning to make their high school lists. With approximately 400 schools to choose from, the process can feel daunting — at least at first.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and his Democratic challenger Sal Albanese sparred for one last time in a debate at the CUNY Graduate Center Wednesday night. 

With a just over a week to go until the September 12 primary election, Mayor de Blasio stumped at churches in Brooklyn, hoping to rally ardent supporters.

Women make up only a quarter of the City Council — the fewest in nearly 20 years — and several of them are about to be term limited out of office.

A year after a deadline for applications for urgent school repairs in low-income districts, officials approved only 5 percent of the requests.

Federal prosecutors said there's not enough evidence to prosecute police who shot and killed a Harlem man experiencing a mental breakdown. The man's mother says she's outraged.  

Members of the city's Evangelical and Hasidic communities continue to back the president, despite the mixed messages he's delivered about white supremacists since Charlottesville.

What happens when you bring together teens from the suburbs with young refugees from war-torn countries?

An Afghan man — once beaten by the Taliban for helping U.S. troops — got approval for a U.S. visa, but then was inexplicably sent to a detention center in Elizabeth.

The horrific attack in the bathroom of an NYPD precinct house in Brooklyn changed New York, but maybe not enough.

An annual basketball tournament in Brooklyn honors Biggie Smalls and the sweat and swagger of youth basketball. 

The mayoral candidates were among the politicians who made a stop at the annual Ecuadorian Parade in Queens on Sunday.

What started as a monthly party in 1997 became an institution, providing the city's emerging South Asian creative class with a gathering place and an aesthetic that was uniquely theirs.

Second verse, same as the first. Republicans plan to go their own way in Congress' next big debate.

Some synagogues in New Jersey are beginning the holy day of Tisha B'Av in front of Elizabeth Detention Center, which holds approximately 300 immigrants set to be deported.

It's the latest fallout from last week's guilty verdict of former City Council member Ruben Wills.

Outraged about Gov. Chris Christie's attorney-client relationship with Christopher Wray, the nominee for FBI director, Democrats in New Jersey are introducing legislation in response.

The judge said using a historic designation to prevent a house from being converted into a mosque was not discrimination.

It may have looked like a typical subway commute of late, but it was actually Mayor de Blasio riding the subway with a throng of reporters on a Sunday.

In its crackdown on illegal immigration, the Trump administration has moved half of the judges in New York City's immigration court — the busiest in the nation — to the southern border.