Cindy Rodriguez

Online Grocer Fresh Direct is expanding its delivery area to include all of the Bronx — and not just the more affluent parts. The company says it will also accept food stamps at a few select locations as part of a pilot program.

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday that food stamp recipients will no longer be fingerprinted. It was a controversial policy that Mayor Michael Bloomberg has staunchly defended for years.

The City Council is looking to attach some strings to banks that receive city deposits. It’s poised to pass legislation Tuesday that would give the city authority to evaluate a bank’s lending practices in low and moderate income neighborhoods when deciding which banks may be certified to receive city deposits.

New York City’s budget process works something like this: The mayor announces billion dollar deficits as impetus to shed fire houses, day care centers, library hours and more. He will...

The dry winter and spring means New York City started May in Level 1 draught conditions. While that's the least severe level of drought, the lack of moisture is notable.

City Council members received up to $578 million in Fiscal Year 2012 to fund construction projects and a variety of non-profits in their districts, according to a new report from the good government group, Citizens Union. Who got what was mostly decided by Council Speaker Christine Quinn — and the distribution, the group contends, was based more on politics than need.

The city's Independent Budget Office issued a report Friday that included a list of 72 ways the city can save and generate revenue. On the list are old favorites that are often discus...

An avid cyclist and wealthy New Yorker has pledged $40 million to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation. It's the largest donation ever made to a city park and its to be used to build an indoor recreation center called the Fieldhouse.

Beginning next month applicants trying to obtain a license to operate a crane in New York City will need to pass a national exam and take a 40-hour training course, in addition to city requirements already in place, such as undergoing a criminal background check and a physical exam.

More than 1.7 million New Yorkers were living in poverty in 2010 – marking the biggest increase the city has experienced in five years, according to a new report.

No criminal action will be taken against the Administration for Children's Services in the death of a 4-year-old girl who was found starved, beaten and drugged two years ago, the Brooklyn District Attorney said Tuesday.

As the city targets where to keep subsidized child care and after school programs, public housing developments in wealthy neighborhoods are getting overlooked, according to a report by United Neighborhood Houses.

Eviction rates increased in all boroughs except Manhattan in 2011, but nowhere was the problem as bad as in the Bronx.

Federal guidelines could quiet the fight between city unions and developers over whether crane operators should have to pass a national exam or not.

Most New Jersey voters approve of the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslims in the state, according to a new poll.

On March 25, police say Lacorey Johnson, 19, used a .380 caliber silver handgun to shoot Tysheen Davis inside the building the two young men grew up in. The families live four floors apart.

New York City will soon take responsibility for its youthful offenders instead of shipping them to facilities upstate, an option that has been viewed as ineffective and costly.  The change is something child advocates and city officials have been pushing for for years.

This isn’t the first time the general contractor overseeing construction at the building that collapsed last week has been involved in a fatal accident. Since 2008, Bovis Lend Lease has been bound by a legal agreement to reform its safety practices, after a deadly blaze at the Deutsche Bank building took the lives of two firefighters in 2007. 

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance lobbied in Albany on Wednesday for a bill that would create harsher penalties for repeat domestic violence offenders and which is stalled in the Senate.

Victims of human trafficking crimes are not utilizing visas that allow them to live and work in the United States legally for four years according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. In 2011, 967 victims applied for the visas and 557 were approved, along with 722 of their family members, far less than the cap allowed for.