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People from eastern Asia to the Western U.S. will get a dazzling display from both the moon and the sun on Sunday – during the annular eclipse of the sun. This is when the moon...

Earlier this week, a jury found former state Senator Pedro Espada Jr. guilty on four counts of theft from the health clinics he founded and ran. Now, the state is moving to close his Soundview Health Care Network for good.

The average homicide victim is a young black man with a prior arrest who was likely shot dead in a revenge killing during the overnight hours in Brooklyn, according to an NYPD report released Friday.

Drown your sorrows while your can: The LIRR is banning alcohol on overnight weekend trains leaving from Penn Station beginning this weekend.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended stop and frisk practices and said the NYPD will continue the practice that has faced increasing scrutiny.

FreshDirect is planning to accept delivery orders from every ZIP code in the Bronx — a reversal from what WNYC reported earlier this year when the company announced its planned relocation to the South Bronx.

After all the hype, Facebook's first day as a public company ended where it began. Its stock closed at $38.23, up 23 cents, after pricing Thursday night at $38 per share. Track its f...

Governor Andrew Cuomo remained mum Wednesday about a possible ethics probe of the state’s No. 2 ranking senator by a new watchdog group.

State officials are threatening to replace the New York Racing Association, which runs two race tracks in the metro region.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the CEO of JPMorgan Chase after he survived a push to strip him of his title Tuesday following a $2 billion trading loss by the bank.

The City Council voted Tuesday to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s veto of the so-called prevailing wage bill on Tuesday — meaning some building employees working at developments that benefit from city funds will soon earn more money.

Newark's planning board has approved a natural gas power plant  for an industrial neighborhood in the city's Ironbound district.

On This Week in Politics, WNYC political reporters run down some of the top political stories from the week that was, providing insight and analysis on local, state and national p...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered a spirited defense of the New York Police Department’s use of stop-and-frisk on Thursday, saying “stops are a deterrent.” It comes a day after an analysis of NYPD data by the NYCLU showed police targeted blacks and Latinos for stop-and-frisks.

Governor Chris Christie on Thursday vetoed legislation that would have established a health care exchange, called for under the President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.

Department of Correction Commissioner Dora B. Schriro denied reports that a fight club exists within Rikers Island in which inmates impose their own violent system of order.

President Barack Obama’s public support for gay marriage on Wednesday has won him praise from local politicians and gay rights supporters.

A neighborhood group wants to limit the hours Brooklyn's Barclays Center can sell alcohol when it opens in September.

The NYPD has not stepped up patrols in wake of the discovery of a sophisticated new al-Qaida airline bomb plot – but officials remain "concerned" that bomb-maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri is still at large.

An Upper East Side man who held his mother at knifepoint and was shot by police told cops it was a good thing they caught him because "somebody was going to be killed today," the police commissioner said Tuesday.