Bob Hennelly

The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, formed nearly 10 years ago to help that portion of the city recover from the 9/11 attacks, could be around for at least another three years, officials said.

The first day of school was delayed until Thursday in New Jersey's third largest city because of residual clean-up from the record flooding caused by Irene last week

WNYC Senior Reporter Bob Hennelly talks about President Obama's visit to Paterson and the holiday weekend flood cleanup.

A week after Tropical Storm Irene hit New Jersey, President Barack Obama and Governor Chris Christie toured some of the hardest-hit areas near the Passaic River in Wayne and Paterson.

Flood waters in New Jersey continue to create hardship for thousands of residents along the Passaic River and its tributaries in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene.

Within a week, the northeastern United States was hit by both an earthquake and hurricane. Following Hurricane Irene, four million homes and businesses lost electricity. According to experts like Dan Genest of Dominion Virginia Power, turning the lights back on will be no easy task. He told the AP that "one broken pole can take six to seven hours to repair."

Hurricane Irene graphically illustrated how thousands of bad local landuse decisions, when hit by a storm the size of Europe, can all help produce a "natural disaster" with continenta...

WNYC senior reporter Bob Hennelly, NJ Spotlight's John Mooney, Baristanet's Debra Galant and NJTV reporter David Cruz will join Brian to lead a discussion about New Jersey towns. What do the state’s hundreds and hundreds of municipalities mean to New Jersey hearts and minds, and what do they mean for governance and economics?

Clean-up crews in New Jersey are facing massive flooding and debris as they work to restore service to the 625,860 customers who lost electricity during Hurricane Irene.

Bob Hennelly, WNYC senior reporter, checks in on the damage in areas of New Jersey after Tropical Storm Irene.

As the rain picked up in intensity in Morristown, New Jersey, on Saturday, Kim Tiburt 42, was using the overhang at the New Jersey train station for cover while she tried to figure out where she could get shelter from Hurricane Irene.

The NYPD is refuting a report that its counter-terrorism unit had an unprecedented collaboration with the Central Intelligence Agency and used spying as an intelligence-gathering tactic.

The 5.8 earthquake that rattled the East Coast did not damage the area’s nuclear power plants – including Indian Point in upstate New York, Federal and utility officials say. But critics contend the unusually powerful quake for the region should be a wake-up call.

The Obama Administration fears that the New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s probe of the nation’s biggest banks during the mortgage meltdown will hold up a national settlement that could bring billions of dollars of relief to homeowners, sources said.

The recently resigned former top uniformed officer in the Department of Correction was forced out by a commissioner who is pressing ahead to improve the image and performance of the embattled agency, sources told WNYC.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie told reporters Thursday that he and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo were working on a coordinated alternative to the Port Authority's proposed toll and fare hike, but did not know if their alternative would be announced in time for the Port Authority board meeting on Friday.

WNYC senior reporter Bob Hennelly talks about the upkeep of thousands of foreclosed residential properties in New York State and the efforts to encourage owners to take responsibility.

The Christie administration is preparing to move forward with some changes it hopes will help cut power rates, while also reducing New Jersey’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Throughout New York state, local governments are trying to figure out who to hold responsible for the upkeep of thousands of foreclosed residential properties.

It was an unusual site in Penn Station Thursday morning: a phalanx of NJ Transit's top managers lined up ready to be criticized by a ridership put through two days of delays and service disruptions after a derailment.