Bob Hennelly

Wi-Fi will be available in 32 public parks within two years as part of a landmark, billion dollar deal struck between the city and cable franchises Time Warner and Cablevision.

We have permitted debt and speculation to hollow out America's core. We mistake playing the margins, the spread and the angles as the surest way to prosperity. -Bob Hennelly, It's A...

Washington has done more to harm the economy over the last two months than they have have done to help it, and that's got to change. -Mayor Michael Bloomberg

The quick departure of Stephen Goldsmith, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Deputy Mayor for Operations, after his a rocky, 14-month tenure marks a major turning point in the mayor's third term.

I have been in close quarters with President Obama only twice, but what happened between those two occasions tells a lot about the arc of his presidency and the trajectory of the nation he's charged with leading.

New York City is not enforcing a 2009 state law that requires owners of foreclosed properties maintain them, according to the state senator who wrote the law.

There are so many people who got bad deals - and are stuck with those bad deals - who are just seething with the sense that the bankers who put them in those bad deals are not stuck w...

The man the Bloomberg Administration brought in to revive the city's beleaguered 911 call system is leaving after just spending less than a year on the job.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill that will provide hundreds of millions of dollars to revive the stalled Xanadu Mall and several other projects across the state.

Pumps are now working at the Harlem wastewater treatment plant that has spilled millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Hudson River, officials said. They're hopeful the discharges will end around 6 p.m. Friday.

Former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein sat behind Rupert Murdoch and his son, James, as the media mogul and his protege were being grilled by parliament Tuesday.

Rupert Murdoch's publicly traded News Corp. may face multiple legal challenges in the U.S. amid the phone-hacking scandal that has rattled the media mogul's empire, according to legal experts.

Listen to live coverage of the Murdochs' testimony to a parliamentary committee.Bob Hennelly, WNYC reporter, discusses the unfolding scandal in the UK over phone hacking at News of the World, the former News Corp tabloid.

I am determined, the president is determined, that we get a settlement not only that is going to hold these servicers accountable, but also that provides real assistance to families t...

The repercussions from the News of the World hacking scandal are slowly spreading across the Atlantic to American shores. Yesterday, the FBI opened an investigation into whether News Corp. employees tried to hack into phones belonging to 9/11 victims and their family members. They began the investigation after Republican Rep. Peter King, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, made a call for the probe. In related news, Rebekah Brooks, the embattled chief executive of News International, News Corporation's British newspaper subsidiary, has agreed to step down following weeks of political and public pressure.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker says two of the three shootings that left a 15-year-old dead and a dozen others wounded on Monday night in Newark are related to a deadly feud between rival drug sellers. The shooting in which the twelfth person was wounded was unrelated to the other two.

With only one misdemeanor conviction in the deaths of two firefighters in the Deutsche Bank fire, WNYC senior reporter Bob Hennelly looks at who the jury blamed, and who they didn't.

More than a year before the fire broke out in the condemned Deutsche Bank building that killed two firefighters, the tragic outcome of ill-fated project had been foreshadowed by officials who questioned the qualifications of the subcontractor hired to take down the structure.

A powerful health care union spent more than $6.3 million over two months this year in a campaign to support Governor Andrew Cuomo's efforts to reduce state health care costs, according to New York state disclosure documents.

This ugly building is now a dirty deal for the taxpayers, and it is kind of like the Vietnam of malls" -Sierra Club Director Jeff Tittel on the American Dreams Meadowland project