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Romney and Christie will hold an event Tuesday in New Hampshire ahead of the presidential debate set at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., where Christie will announce his support, the campaign said.

A woman groped in Windsor Terrace on Sunday is the 12th victim in a string of sexual assaults in Brooklyn, police said.

The MTA is hoping lower ridership on subways on holidays will equal savings for the agency through reduced services.

Thomas Sargent, a professor at New York University, and Christopher Sims, a professor at Princeton University won the Nobel economics prize on Monday.

If you intend to vote in next year's presidential primary and are not affiliated with a political party or want to change your affiliation, you must register by Friday.

Demonstrators marched Saturday from Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, the group's unofficial headquarters where protesters have been camped out for the last 22 days.

Trenton Mayor Tony Mack was in Washington, DC on Friday to ask that the city be reconsidered for federal funds to help protect New Jersey’s capital city.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg took a few verbal jabs at the anti-Wall Street protesters on Friday, saying the demonstrators who have camped out in Lower Manhattan for nearly three weeks are "trying to destroy the jobs of working people."

More than 100 people based in Queens have been indicted in an international identify theft probe after authorities said they bilked customers out of $13 million over a 16-month period.

Some New York City Council members are calling for more oversight of the New York Police intelligence operations, after they were not informed of department programs that subjected Muslim neighborhoods to surveillance and scrutiny.

Meanwhile, the city's top cop, Commissioner Ray Kelly, said protesters can continue to remain in Zuccotti Park for as long as they remain peaceful because the space is part of a lan...

Thousands of union workers, community groups and Occupy Wall Street protesters rallied in Foley Square late Wednesday during a demonstration in Lower Manhattan where 23 people were ...

Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and former CEO who helped revolutionize the personal computer industry, the way we listen to music and mobile communications, died Wednesday. He was 56.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Wednesday that a deal has been reached that could give the city the money it needs to complete a greenway around Manhattan.

A leader of New York state's third-largest political party said he had "a great element of trust" in a campaign consultant now charged with bilking New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

A diverse group of unions and community groups joined the demonstrations near Wall Street during a protest on Wednesday in Lower Manhattan.

Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington donated more than $2 million to his alma mater Fordham University.
 

The focus of the investigation into the deadly East River helicopter crash will be equipment aboard the doomed chopper that crashed into the river shortly after takeoff on Tuesday, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

The City Council is expected to pass a bill Wednesday to increase the scrutiny of the city's outside contracting in order to prevent another scandal, like CityTime, an outsourced payroll project with millions in cost overruns.

Victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme are getting some of the money back.