Ilya Marritz

New jobs figures for January indicate the state's unemployment rate rose slightly from the month before, from 8.2 to 8.3 percent.

A business and real estate group is promising big changes for Downtown Brooklyn this year, including a new 176-room hotel, the construction of 600 rental apartments and a new outpost of the popular Shake Shack fast food stand on Fulton Mall.

Regulators in Albany have advanced a plan unpopular with some large corporations that would require manufacturers of common household cleaners like floor polish and dish soap to disclose the products’ ingredients.

An attorney from White Plains traded his Camaro for a chance to be a test driver for the Chevrolet Volt, an electric car that he has used to commute 14 miles from his home to West Nyack since November.

Two films in contention for the Best Documentary designation at the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday have strong ties to New York.

The owner of famed Upper West Side bagel shop H&H has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing expensive litigation and the poor economy.

Not long ago, it seemed as if mega-bookstores like Borders would keep expanding, driving out small, independent bookshops. But as the chain declared bankruptcy, it turns out there ar...

The world's third-largest annual trade fair for toy-makers expected to draw more than 30,000 people begins Sunday at the Javits Center.

Designers are poised to showcase their latest trend-setting styles on the runway starting Thursday at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. But who comes up with the color trends that are evident on the catwalk? It turns out a single New Jersey company has a hand in the color of roughly half of all garments sold in the U.S., according to NPD, a market research group. 

There's fresh evidence the rental market in Manhattan is rebalancing in favor of landlords.

Leaders from dozens of universities around the world converge on New York this week to show their interest in establishing a new high tech research campus in the city, an idea born out of the financial crisis.

A state program that offers tax breaks to developers to clean and build on contaminated land has failed to remediate the sites that need it most, according to a study  by an environmental group.

The Mets' owners may sell a stake in the team because a lawsuit related to their investment with Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff has created financial insecurity, the family said Friday.

A Bloomberg administration official said sweeping new financial regulations being written in Washington, D.C., will not harm Wall Street.

New York State added jobs last year, but New Jersey's workforce shrunk.

The Queens Library, one of the city's public libraries experiencing the budget squeeze, is taking an unprecedented step in its 104 year history and has stopped buying books.

A co-defendant in one of the biggest insider trading cases in U.S. history has entered a guilty plea in Manhattan federal court.

 

Two new surveys of apartment rentals in Manhattan suggest the market has stabilized after a rocky period following the economic meltdown.

The New York Attorney General has filed suit against the owner of an out-of-state power plant he claims is polluting New York's air.

The city is hoping a new tenant in a once-thriving marketplace will cook up renewed interest in this historic La Marqueta space below the MetroNorth tracks in East Harlem.