Ilya Marritz

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman warned the rules governing New York's nearly $200 billion a year nonprofit sector are outdated and overly burdensome, calling on Thursday for a a broad overhaul of the state's nonprofit laws, aimed at reducing paperwork and strengthening oversight.

Thirteen New York businesses have become the first in the state to register as benefit corporations, a new designation signed into law last December by Governor Andrew Cuomo.

New York has joined a $25 billion state and federal settlement with five major banks that would resolve claims over "robo-signing" and other abuses of the foreclosure process.

The upscale clothing boutique Barneys New York appears to be in some financial trouble.

The ticker-tape parade for the Super Bowl champion New York Giants Tuesday may have brought in as much as $38 million in additional spending on restaurants, souvenirs and transit to the city, according to the mayor’s estimates.

Money began to disappear from customer accounts on October 26, 2011, five days before MF Global filed for bankruptcy, according to James Giddens, the trustee tasked with recovering funds for former clients of the commodities and stock brokerage.

Kimchi Taco, Mexicue, Red Hook Lobster Pound, Schnitzel & Things and Eddie's Pizza are among the 21 trucks signed up to appear at the World Financial Center on a rotating basis.

Tuesday is the last day tens of thousands of MF Global customers can file a claim to recover their funds.

After months of barely-concealed conflict, the Obama administration and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman say they will work closely together to investigate the role of big banks in causing the mortgage crisis.

The state-sponsored not-for-profit that runs the Belmont, Aqueduct, and Saratoga racetracks is taking risks with its own financial future, according to a report by State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

Regulators are seeking to fine a gas driller in Pennsylvania for water quality violations in New York.

Developer Larry Silverstein is facing a major problem in his quest to build an office tower at the former site of the World Trade Center: if he can't attract a major tenant for the building known as Tower 3, he can't build the 80-story skyscraper he envisions, and the edifice may instead be capped at seven stories.

New York's plants and trees, like the city's human beings, are being forced to adapt to the winter's mood swings. First there was weeks of unusually warm weather. Now the air is freezing and a snowstorm is on the way.

Some of the biggest U.S. banks are reportedly close to a settlement with authorities over practices related to the so-called robo-signing scandal, in which servicers sought to evict t...

Internet freedom activists rallied outside the Third Avenue offices of Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, calling on them to drop their support for controversial legislation aimed at curtailing online piracy.

Last year was the strongest year for commercial real estate leasing in New York in more than a decade, according to a new report by Cushman & Wakefield.

WNYC reporters Bob Hennelly and Ilya Marritz discuss the Mayor's State of the City address.

The trustee overseeing the liquidation of MF Global told account holders on Thursday they have just a few more weeks left to register claims against the stock and commodities broker once led by former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine.

State officials must now have to sift through tens of thousands of comments on New York’s plans for regulation of high volume hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking with the closure of public comment period on Thursday.

Wednesday is the last day members of the public can submit comments on the New York's plans to regulate the controversial natural gas drilling technique known as fracking.