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Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended stop and frisk practices and said the NYPD will continue the practice that has faced increasing scrutiny.

FreshDirect is planning to accept delivery orders from every ZIP code in the Bronx — a reversal from what WNYC reported earlier this year when the company announced its planned relocation to the South Bronx.

After all the hype, Facebook's first day as a public company ended where it began. Its stock closed at $38.23, up 23 cents, after pricing Thursday night at $38 per share. Track its f...

Governor Andrew Cuomo remained mum Wednesday about a possible ethics probe of the state’s No. 2 ranking senator by a new watchdog group.

State officials are threatening to replace the New York Racing Association, which runs two race tracks in the metro region.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the CEO of JPMorgan Chase after he survived a push to strip him of his title Tuesday following a $2 billion trading loss by the bank.

The City Council voted Tuesday to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s veto of the so-called prevailing wage bill on Tuesday — meaning some building employees working at developments that benefit from city funds will soon earn more money.

Newark's planning board has approved a natural gas power plant  for an industrial neighborhood in the city's Ironbound district.

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 p...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered a spirited defense of the New York Police Department’s use of stop-and-frisk on Thursday, saying “stops are a deterrent.” It comes a day after an analysis of NYPD data by the NYCLU showed police targeted blacks and Latinos for stop-and-frisks.

Governor Chris Christie on Thursday vetoed legislation that would have established a health care exchange, called for under the President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.

Department of Correction Commissioner Dora B. Schriro denied reports that a fight club exists within Rikers Island in which inmates impose their own violent system of order.

President Barack Obama’s public support for gay marriage on Wednesday has won him praise from local politicians and gay rights supporters.

A neighborhood group wants to limit the hours Brooklyn's Barclays Center can sell alcohol when it opens in September.

The NYPD has not stepped up patrols in wake of the discovery of a sophisticated new al-Qaida airline bomb plot – but officials remain "concerned" that bomb-maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri is still at large.

An Upper East Side man who held his mother at knifepoint and was shot by police told cops it was a good thing they caught him because "somebody was going to be killed today," the police commissioner said Tuesday.

The 47-year-old rapper born in Brooklyn, who fans knew as MCA, died on Friday after a battle with cancer. Watch vintage Beasties' music videos here.

The New Jersey State Supreme Court ruled that it is legal for the state to cap payouts for unused sick time for top school administrators.

The Knicks’ Jeremy Lin may not be speaking at the graduation of Stuyvesant High School’s Class of 2012, but he still had some words of wisdom to share with the students.

The NYPD police officer who was stabbed in the temple with a switch blade in East Harlem was released from the hospital on Wednesday — facing a long road to recovery but saying he was "just happy to be alive."