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Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared Cornell University the winner of a competition to build an applied sciences campus in New York City.

There will be more cars out on the roads this week than any time during the year, motorists on the Whitestone Expressway, the Hutchinson Parkway, and the Pulaski Skyway will spend triple the time on the road that they normally would, according to a new report. 

The leader of a Tea Party group was arrested at LaGuardia airport Thursday, and charged with gun possession.

Workers were performing electrical maintenance on the elevator just hours before the freak accident that killed a woman in a Madison Avenue office building on Wednesday, officials said.

More than 300 arrested during Occupy Wall Street demonstrations this fall are expected to pack a Manhattan courthouse this week to answer the charges.

A 41-year-old woman was killed during an elevator mishap in a Madison Avenue office building, the fire department said.

Stocks fell after two ratings agencies raised doubts about the fiscal plan hatched last week that aimed to end Europe’s debt crisis.

One of Russia's richest men and the owner of the New Jersey Nets says he'll take on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the presidential election in March.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is standing behind the NYPD's handling of protesters that once inhabited Zuccotti Park.

The former chief executive of MF Global Holdings Ltd. has abruptly left his job at the New York City comptroller's office. In a statement on Thursday, the city comptroller's office ...

Police in New York City are patrolling Deutsche Bank offices and have issued warnings to area banks after a letter bomb addressed to the company's chief executive was intercepted in Germany

At least 20 offensive comments on Facebook that called West Indian Day parade-goers “savages” and “animals,” may have been made by NYPD officers, the police commissioner said Wednesday.

Seventy years ago today, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, drawing the U.S. into World War II. Step back with WNYC to December 7,  1941, to listen to a broadcast about the attack an...

Three anti-Wall Street protesters on a hunger strike were arrested on trespassing charges when they tried to access a vacant lot in Lower Manhattan on Sunday.

A key road through the northern Catskill Mountains is set to reopen after being washed out by flooding from tropical storms Irene and Lee earlier this year.

The lawyer for a Manahattan man accused of assembling a homemade bomb said she and prosecutors have agreed to delay having a grand jury weigh in on the case.

A New Jersey lawmaker is calling on Governor Chris Christie's office to investigate how the Port Authority handled recent bridge and tunnel tolls and PATH fare hikes.

A Congressional panel has subpoenaed former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine to testify next week after he failed to respond to an informal request.

A former FEMA director said Connecticut's largest utility failed to put enough repair crews in place before a record-setting October snowstorm.

The commander of New Jersey's National Guard is resigning after being caught having a physical relationship with a woman who worked for him, state officials said.