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Mosques around the city are opening their doors to those interested in learning about the Muslim faith this week. More than 40 leaders from the five boroughs kicked off the "Week of Dialogue" at Brooklyn's Mosque At-Taqwa on Monday.

A day after the city's Administration for Children's Services became the subject of a grand jury investigation, Mayor Michael  Bloomberg is expressing confidence in ACS Commissioner John Mattingly. He says it's up to the court to decide whether case workers acted appropriately in the case of four year old Marchella Pierce. But he says ACS employees do a good job in cases where it isn't clear whether children should be taken from their parents.

The Port Authority, the owner of the World Trade Center property, has tentatively agreed to pay $47.5 million to settle lawsuits by more than 9,000 people exposed to toxic dust during the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

The Port Authority, the owner of the World Trade Center property, has tentatively agreed to pay $47.5 million to settle lawsuits by more than 9,000 people exposed to toxic dust during the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

Mayor Bloomberg is standing by one of his philanthropic advisers, Steven Rattner, who is reported to have been fined millions of dollars by the Securities and Exchange Commission for his role in a pension fund scandal. The mayor says he won't be replacing Rattner anytime soon.

According to reports from The New York Times, Steven Rattner, the man who oversaw the Obama Adminsistration's turnaround of the auto industry, has apparently reached a settlement wi...

The winner of the $100,000 Curry Stone Design Prize, which rewards innovative designs that solves public health problems, goes to a graduate of Harvard's M.B.A. program. Elizabeth Scharpf is not a trained designer, but created an affordable sanitary pad out of the trunks of banana trees.

The city's police department has confirmed that a tenth suspect has been arrested in the Bronx anti-gay attacks on two teens and a 30-year-old man.

Opening arguments in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who is accused of bombing two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, began Tuesday in Lower Manhattan. Ghailani's trial is th...

A juror has been removed, on the fourth day of deliberations in the trial of four men accused of attempting to bomb synagogues in the Bronx. The judge denied calls for a mistrial, and the jury will continue with the remaining 11 members.

Two additional suspects were charged Tuesday in several brutal attacks that authorities believe were touched off because gang members thought one of their recruits was gay.

Police have arrested a ninth suspect in connection with the assault, and torture of two teenage boys and a 30-year-old man — allegedly for being gay.

Italian-American pride provided a backdrop for the latest sparing in New York's gubernatorial race. At Monday's Columbus Day Parade, Democrat Andrew Cuomo criticized Republican Carl P...

The NYPD bomb squad has removed a bag of the military-grade plastic explosive known as C-4 from an historic cemetery in the East Village. It was not capable of detonating, police say.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has cancelled plans for a new rail tunnel between New Jersey and Manhattan's Penn Station. "The current economic climate in New Jersey does not allo...

The long-awaited MTA fare hike is now official. MTA Chairman Jay Walder announced Thursday that the price of a monthly MetroCard will go from $89 to $104, weekly cards will rise from $27 to $29 and base fares for single rides will increase by 25 cents.

The city's 1.7 million food stamp users will have a narrower choice of things to purchase, if Mayor Michael Bloomberg persuades the federal government to let him try an experiment.

The investor and business financier Henry Kravis is pledging $100 million to his alma mater, the Columbia University Business School. It is the largest gift that school has ever received.

City officials say there are still thousands of 9/11 first responders who haven't accepted their share of a $712 million settlement.

A Staten Island man is being held on bail and another is awaiting arraignment in an alleged anti-gay bias attack at the Stonewall Inn.  The famed bar in Greenwich Village is the site considered the birthplace of the modern gay civil rights movement. The incident occurred early Sunday morning.