Julianne Welby

After touting progress on this year's tests, State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa offered slightly different takes on the results.

There's almost nothing more frustrating than getting into a subway car with broken air conditioning. Unless it's the same car, over and over again.

The controversial development tested a key piece of Mayor de Blasio's affordable housing plan. 

Ydanis Rodriguez says he now plans to vote no on a proposed 17-story, 350-unit development along Fort Tryon Park — the latest test in Mayor de Blasio's affordable housing agenda.

The low-performing schools in the Bronx are still waiting to hear if they've improved enough to get off the state's dreaded Persistently Struggling Schools List.

Imam Maulama Akonjee's had just finished prayers at a nearby mosque when police say a man fatally shot him and his assistant, Thara Uddin.

The 24 pieces at the Bronx Documentary Center trace eyewitness recordings of violence, and social and racial injustice throughout history.  

The Brooklyn neighborhood leads the city in shooting deaths this year, but a 40-block oasis there is on a streak of no shootings. Meet the folks who say they're behind the trend.

Advocates say they're concerned the Department of Education is backing off a proposed ban on suspensions for students in the earliest grades.

A-Rod was great. But is he a Yankees great?

It's one of the first precincts to adopt a neighborhood policing strategy that incoming NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill championed. But it has its detractors.

Our long national nightmare of not having real-time arrival information on much of the subway system could be coming to an end. Maybe.

Commissioner Bratton says it'll be a massive effort, done "on a larger scale than just about any poll that you're used to."

A middle-aged, white, Irish cop with a shaved head is the NYPD's face of change.

Strategists say each Presidential campaign event is like a calculated chess move.

A Monopoly board mural inspired by gentrification was painted over in Jersey City. The artist says he was forced to keep making changes until, ultimately, the mural was gone. 

The new principal, Grecian Harrison, faces significant challenges at the school, including an enrollment crisis.

After a sweltering weekend, the high is expected to stay in the 90's through at least Wednesday in the New York City area.

People marched and gathered Sunday in the Tompkinsville neighborhood of Staten Island, where Eric Garner died following a police chokehold. 

The city is adding Russian, Urdu, Haitian Creole, French and Arabic to the list in an effort to register more voters.