Lee Hernandez

A 1950's cancer study that used down-and-out men on the Bowery as subjects has now been deemed unethical by medical researchers.  The New York Times reports a Columbia University medical researcher promised the men a warm bed and food in exchange for surgical biopsies of their prostates, but did not carefully warn them of potential risks.

It's the last day of campaigning for the two candidates in New Jersey's special Senate election.

Voters in New York will not only pick a new mayor next month, they will also decide whether the state should have more casino gambling. 

The American Planning Association today announced its 2013 list of great places in America -- and it includes Grand Central Terminal and Newark's Branch Brook Park.

There will be no opening night concert at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday. The organization has canceled its season-opening performance after a strike by the local stagehands union.

some of them make more tan 400-thousand a year....some more...than finance director ...

This year's list of the 24 fellows named by the MacArthur Foundation includes a number of musicians, writers and academics from the region, as well as a doctor pioneering a new type of health care network in the inner city.

The Metropolitan Opera will welcome back its maestro Tuesday night.

They span from borough to borough and county to county but bridges in the New York and New Jersey area are in trouble.