Amy Eddings

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The continuing crisis on Wall Street has blown a $4 billion hole in the city's next budget and Mayor Bloomberg is proposing raising the sales tax, and slashing 23,000 jobs to make ends meet.

He says 15,000 teachers could be laid off, unless the state uses ...

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The city's economy has been sliding for three consecutive quarters, but City Comptroller Bill Thompson's latest report says the deterioration really picked up pace in the last three months of of 2008.

He says "gross city product" fell 5.5% in the fourth quarter skidding rapidly from ...

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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority seems to have thrown in the towel on trying to cap costs at the Fulton Street transit hub in Lower Manhattan.

Despite changes to its original design, MTA CEO Lee Sander says the hub will still cost 62 percent more than its ...

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State comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says Wall Street bonuses slid by a record amount last year.

DINAPOLI: We estimate the bonus pool contracted by 44% this year, falling to $18.4 billion from about $33 billion in 2007.

REPORTER: He says the steep decline in bonuses was due to ...

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Governor Paterson says he hopes to announce by this weekend his appointee to replace Senator Hillary Clinton.

The governor, speaking to CNN from Washington, DC, says he would have made the announcement sooner, if not for President elect Obama's inauguration.

He says he's whittled the field to ...

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The New York Police Department has finally relented, and has issued press credentials to three bloggers. Two months after they had filed a federal lawsuit, Rafael Martinez Alequin, David Wallis and Ralph Smith were given press identification cards. Their attorney, Norman Siegel, was with them ...

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Mayor Bloomberg is sounding a note of caution about President-elect Obama's proposed economic stimulus plan, saying it may not do enough to help those who need the money most. Obama laid out goals of doubling the production of alternative energy over three years, updating most ...

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The City Council voted unanimously to require the police department to file annual reports about officers' use of their guns. Currently, the New York Police Department voluntarily submits its firearms discharge reports. Under the new legislation, the NYPD would have to break down shootings by ...

New York, NY —

The City Council is hosting a viewing party at City Hall for Barack Obama's inauguration, and it has had such an overwhelming response that it can no longer accommodate any more guests.

The council has received more than 2,000 responses to invitations that were sent out ...

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New Year's revelers will face subzero wind chills from Times Square to Buffalo as snow, wind and low temperatures drop New York into a deep freeze on the last day of 2008. While the city will see light snowfall throughout the afternoon, National Weather Service ...

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Traffic is the bane of many a New Yorkers' existence. We're either stuck in it, dodging it, or listening to it, like Carlotta Giglio does every single day.

GIGLIO: I used to keep very pretty little suncatchers in my windows. I don't do it anymore. You ...

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How New Yorkers deal with traffic that's too close for comfort.

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A long-awaited contract that allows Sims Metal Management to process and sell the city's metal, glass and plastic for the next 20 years is finally official, just as the city faces pressure to cut costs and Sims finds it more difficult to turn a profit ...

New York, NY —

Officer Richard Kern is accused of sodomizing Michael Mineo with his baton. Two other officers, Alex Cruz and Andrew Morales, face charges for trying to cover up the assault.

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes credited two witnesses. Transit Officer Kevin Maloney and Police Officer Noel Jugraj ...

New York, NY —

Michael McMahon is the first Democrat in 28 years to represent the 13th Congressional district, which includes Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn

In just four weeks, Michael McMahon, a city councilman from Staten Island, will be sworn into office as part of the 111th ...

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City ambulances will be taking a new tack with patients struck by cardiac arrest. Starting next year, EMS paramedics will take many heart attack victims to certain hospitals where their bodies can be cooled down, even if those hospitals with specialized cooling equipment are farther ...

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It's a plan designed to spread the burden among the largest group of people.

At least that's how Richard Ravitch described his panel's recommendations for bailing out the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Recommendations include a payroll tax for companies, fare and toll increases of just 8 percent, instead ...

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A bill creating a statewide plastic bag recycling program in New York is now on Governor Paterson's desk and New York City's council is urging the governor to reject it.

Speaker Christine Quinn says the bill would undercut the city's own fledgling plastic bag recycling program. ...

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Giants receiver Plaxico Burress pleaded not guilty today to two charges of criminal possession of an unlicensed handgun, after accidentally shooting himself at a Manhattan nightclub.

Mayor Bloomberg had harsh words for Burress, for carrying an illegal handgun

BLOOMBERG: Our children are getting killed with guns in ...

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The weeks of rumor and speculation are over.

President elect Barack Obama has selected New York's junior senator, Hillary Clinton, as his nominee for Secretary of State.

He praised his former campaign rival, saying they share a view of America's safety and security that includes combining military ...