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Professors railed against NYU’s proposed expansion plan Wednesday, saying faculty members fear the ambitious Greenwich Village project that will be go before the City Council next month could bankrupt the university.

Stowaways are suspected to be in a container loaded in India that has docked in Newark, N.J., the coast guard said.

New Jersey had the fourth-best beach water quality in the nation last year, and New York ranked No 24 out of coastal states — while the number of closures or advisories doubled in the Empire State, according to a report.

Filmmaker, playwright and novelist Nora Ephron has died. She was 71 years old. The cause was acute myeloid leukemia. Watch clips from her most famous films.

A person writes a "living will" so caretakers will know his wishes if his health starts to fail. Now, nine of the world's largest financial institutions have to do the same thing so regulators will know what to do if one of them fails.

Beach-goers sporting bathing suits on the Asbury Park boardwalk are breaking the law — and tarnishing the classy name of the Jersey Shore city, according to one GOP leader.

The New Jersey Assembly passed a $32 billion budget that is on the way to Governor Chris Christie's desk. But the governor is likely to veto parts of the bill.

The claims czar who oversaw funds for victims of 9/11 and the BP Oil Spill detailed how he places a monetary value on the lives of those who died in some of the nation’s greatest tragedies.

Lawmakers in New Jersey approved a bill banning hydraulic fracturing — otherwise known as fracking — byproducts created in other states from entering the Garden State.

A judge has declined to throw out a state-level terrorism case against a Queens man charged with plotting to blow up synagogues.

Forty years after infamous NYPD whistle-blower Frank Serpico broke through the so-called blue wall of silence, three former detectives and one current one who filed suit against the NYPD claims the culture of retaliation for reporting corruption still exists.

For more than a decade, former Governor Mario Cuomo refused to sit for his official portrait. But he got a surprise birthday gift over the weekend: an oil-on-canvas portrait bound for the State Capitol.

On This Week in Politics, WNYC political reporters run down some of the top political stories from the week that was, providing insight and analysis on local, state and national political issues that touch New Yorkers.

The U.S. government has seized a dinosaur skeleton in New York City that officials say was unjustly taken from the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.

It was a different kind setting from the usual bill signing ceremony, but Mayor Michael signed a bill to strengthen penalties against cabbies who knowingly work with sex traffickers on Friday morning.

The NYPD is training thousand of officers and how to conduct proper stop-and-frisks, a tactic they use that has come under increasing scrutiny. View one scenario used in the stop-an...

A former NYPD police officer already convicted of sex charges pleaded guilty Thursday to an additional rape charge, sparing the young teacher he was accused of assaulting at gunpoint from reliving the painful episode during a retrial.

Rev. Al Sharpton said Attorney General Eric Holder has been “stopped and frisked” by members of a House Committee that voted Wednesday to hold him in Contempt of Congress.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg decided to hold off on signing a bill aimed at stopping sex trafficking by strengthening penalties against cabbies who knowingly work with traffickers.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn on Wednesday said they will jointly support one widow’s challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).