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Ray Lazier Lengend, 40, faces charges of criminal possession of a weapon, arson as a hate crime and arson. 

Revelers erupted in cheers amid a confetti-filled celebration in New York's Times Square to welcome in the new year, part of star-studded celebrations and glittering fireworks displays around the world to usher in 2012.

The new year won't be starting with a strike by 22,000 New York City office cleaners. Their union, Local 32BJ, and the Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations announced Friday night that a tentative agreement had been reached.

To help ring in the new year, the region’s public transit systems will be offering more buses and trains Saturday evening and operating later than usual to accommodate the crowds.

The end of the year is usually a time where people take a look at their finances to get ready for taxes or prepare for the new year. WNYC spoke with Certified Financial Planner Clare Stenstrom, with Bourne Stenstrom Lent Asset Management, Inc., to find out what steps people can take before the year closes out.

WNYC editors have had the trying task of selecting 10 of our favorite stories from 2011. In a year marked by political scandals, government upheavals and daily news bombshells, we p...

New York City is missing out on tens of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements for services to special-needs students. The New York Times reports that the city Department of...

Several Muslim leaders and community activists are planning to skip Mayor Bloomberg's annual Interfaith Breakfast tomorrow. In a letter to the Mayor's office, the group expressed concern over a series of AP reports about NYPD surveillance of the Muslim community. 

New York State is threatening to withhold millions in federal grants to struggling schools without new evaluation systems for teacher and principals.

A state ethics panel has found "reasonable cause" to believe former state Sen. Pedro Espada, already facing federal prosecution on public corruption charges, broke New York law by hiring an uncle for his Senate staff.

The mayor of Albany said the police department had no choice but to act forcefully as officers broke up an Occupy Wall Street encampment in the state capital Thursday.

A tie-breaking member of New Jersey's redistricting committee voted for a new congressional map favoring Republicans on Friday.

A Democratic state lawmaker from Brooklyn and his chief of staff were indicted on bribery charges in a Brooklyn court Thursday after the embattled politician was acquitted in another case just last month.

House Speaker John Boehner announced an agreement with the Senate on a two-month payroll tax cut. President Barack Obama congratulated Congress for ending the "partisan stalemate," over extending the tax cut.

The city's Department of Environmental Protection plans to spend $2.1 billion to fix leaks in the Delaware Aqueduct, one of the underground tunnels that brings drinking water to New York City from upstate reservoirs.

Five people died when a small plane headed for Georgia crashed on one of the New York City area's busiest highways.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared Cornell University the winner of a competition to build an applied sciences campus in New York City.

There will be more cars out on the roads this week than any time during the year, motorists on the Whitestone Expressway, the Hutchinson Parkway, and the Pulaski Skyway will spend triple the time on the road that they normally would, according to a new report. 

The leader of a Tea Party group was arrested at LaGuardia airport Thursday, and charged with gun possession.

Workers were performing electrical maintenance on the elevator just hours before the freak accident that killed a woman in a Madison Avenue office building on Wednesday, officials said.