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One year ago, New York City banned smoking in parks, beaches, boardwalks and pedestrian plazas. The Health Department says since that happened smoking and smoking related litter is on the decline.

Albany remains sharply divided on a bill that would raise the minimum wage – a day after Governor Andrew Cuomo, who backs the measure, said he “wouldn’t bet” on a resolution any time soon.

The Legislature's chief budget officer says New Jersey has achieved only half of the $1 billion in revenue growth Gov. Chris Christie anticipated for this fiscal year.

The ex-Rutgers student who was convicted of 15 counts including invasion of privacy and bias intimidation for using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate will spend next month insid...

Long Island Rail Road workers who faked disabilities to get more money would avoid prosecution and be able to keep their pensions if they admit wrongdoing under a deal with the federal government.

The New York City hotel maid accusing the former head of the International Monetary Fund of trying to rape her added a gender-based violence claim Tuesday to her lawsuit against Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

The first witness at the New York insider trading trial of a former Goldman Sachs board member says her billionaire boss was "smiling more" after receiving a call that prosecutors said was an inside tip from the defendant.

Federal officials and the NYPD raided what was believed to be an illegal gambling den in Chinatown on Monday — arresting 11 individuals allegedly linked to the network of gambling activities.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who is suing the Obama administration over its birth control mandate, said Tuesday that it is "strangling" religious freedom.

Authorities in October said that hundreds of Long Island Rail Road employees may have cheated their way to big pensions through a $1 billion fraud by paying off doctors to say they were unable to work.

Muslim leaders in New Jersey have been invited back to Trenton for a follow-up meeting with the state's attorney general. They are expected to discuss the state's response to the New York Police Department's secret surveillance of Muslims in Newark, New Jersey.

Dozens of Roman Catholic dioceses, schools and other institutions — including the Archdioceses of New York — sued the Obama administration Monday over a government mandate requiring most employers to provide birth control coverage as part of their employee health plans.

Google's New York City headquarters is set to become the temporary home of the city's new applied sciences campus.

After a win at the Preakness last weekend, the 3-year-old colt arrived in Belmont Park in New York to get ready to try to capture the elusive third jewel in the Triple Crown. And the ...

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has officially updated his relationship status to "married."

New Jersey lawmakers are considering a bill that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, making the offense similar to a parking violation.

People from eastern Asia to the Western U.S. will get a dazzling display from both the moon and the sun on Sunday – during the annular eclipse of the sun. This is when the moon...

Earlier this week, a jury found former state Senator Pedro Espada Jr. guilty on four counts of theft from the health clinics he founded and ran. Now, the state is moving to close his Soundview Health Care Network for good.

The average homicide victim is a young black man with a prior arrest who was likely shot dead in a revenge killing during the overnight hours in Brooklyn, according to an NYPD report released Friday.

Drown your sorrows while your can: The LIRR is banning alcohol on overnight weekend trains leaving from Penn Station beginning this weekend.