Ilya Marritz

New Jersey's unemployment rate in February was unchanged from the month before at 9 percent, according to data released Thursday.

This week the car-maker Volvo signed Lin as a spokesman, and Coca-Cola now plans to use Lin’s popularity to connect with consumers in China.

The city announced Tuesday it hopes to top the former Fresh Kills landfill site on Staten Island with power-generating windmills or solar panels.

Private plow drivers and hardware stores selling salt and shovels have taken their licks this season. But the second-mildest winter in New York City history, which ended Tuesday, has been a boon to some businesses.

With just days left to apply to lease or buy a century-old landmarked building that's considered one of the city's most desirable properties, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. said he has been disappointed by some of the applicants.

A new web streaming service offers New Yorkers something previously unavailable: live TV on their mobile phones and tablet computers. By the time it had launched, on Wednesday, the service had already won fans and made enemies.

New York is the most competitive city in the world, according to a new index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave few details about his recent private meal with President Barack Obama at the White House.

The mild weather this winter is helping the city's coffers. The Bloomberg administration estimates it has saved $11 million that would have gone to winter weather clean-up such as snow plowing, salt and overtime pay.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia on Sunday, but Northeast-area Russians preferred another man for the job: Mikhail Prokhorov.

It's long been axiomatic that a slice of pizza costs about the same price as a single ride on the subway. But here's a new economic parallel for New York City: the most expensive apartments changing hands in the city last year fetched about as much money as masterworks by Andy Warhol and Gustav Klimt.

Russians and Russian-Americans are casting their votes at two locations in New York City in an election Sunday that pits Russia's prime minister and former president against a slate of candidates, including the owner of the New Jersey Nets (soon to be the Brooklyn Nets).

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The new president and CEO of the Javits Center – who began work yesterday – introduced himself to New York’s business community in dramatic fashion Thursday, at a forum exploring Governor Andrew Cuomo’s plan to tear Javits down and build a bigger convention center in Queens.

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Now that Whole Foods has received the needed approvals to build a 52,000-square-foot store on an isolated corner of Gowanus, Brooklyn, observers expect business and residential development in the surrounding area to speed up.

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The FBI is seeking to raise its profile as an enemy of financial crime — and not just fighters of terrorism — with the release Monday of a public service announcement featuring an actor who played a famous Wall Street villain.

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