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The New York City Council has passed a bill that silences the hundreds of double-decker tour buses that roll through the streets by requiring a headphone system to replace loudspeakers.
For the first time ever, television and film productions that come from all over the world to shoot in the city will have to pay for the City Hall permits that have always been free, a major change in policy that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration blames on budget woes.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday said there's nothing wrong with his money managers investing hundreds of millions of dollars in offshore tax havens, defending it as a practical way to make more money for his philanthropic foundation.
As Congress debates sweeping legislation aimed at guarding against another financial meltdown, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has become Wall Street's spokesman and defender amid a chorus of populist voices.
Manhattan's most famous parks are lined with artists selling their sculptures, paintings and photographs of quintessential New York scenes, all popular with tourists. But city officials say there are too many vendors and are trying to force many off the streets.
The city will end the practice of paying teachers to play Scrabble, read or surf the Internet in reassignment centers nicknamed "rubber rooms" as they await disciplinary hearings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the teachers union announced Thursday.
New York's City Council has passed regulations requiring carriage horses to have larger stalls, five weeks off per year and blankets in cold and wet weather.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expanding his effort to persuade political donors to write checks only to candidates who pledge to keep New York City's priorities in mind.
New York City's billionaire mayor has tapped former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker and 16 others to serve on the board of his philanthropic foundation.
An experimental anti-poverty program that pays the poor for maintaining good habits — $25 to $150 for things such as going to the dentist, staying on the job or opening a bank account — has not been life-changing.
Fewer New York City taxi drivers overcharged their passengers than previously believed because some were likely only fumbling the buttons on the meter for a moment after the trip was over, officials said Monday.
New York City's 24,000 restaurants — from its internationally known eateries on down to its most modest pizza counters — will have to display large letter grades near their entrances indicating how clean they are under a system approved Tuesday.
Real estate tycoon and newspaper publisher Mortimer Zuckerman won't run for the U.S. Senate in New York, his newspaper reported Tuesday.
Former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. returned to his job as an MSNBC pundit on Tuesday, one day after announcing he wouldn't run for U.S. Senate in New York, and said he would have won the primary but worried that the intraparty battle would have emboldened Republicans.
New York City will keep Broadway permanently closed to traffic in Times Square and Herald Square.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he is skeptical that the federal government would cover the cost of trying Sept. 11 suspects in Manhattan, a day after President Barack Obama said he had not ruled out holding the trial in New York.
Stephen Colbert is giving potential U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. a tough time about running for office in New York.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday he has "no plans" to run for president and insisted that hiring Hillary Rodham Clinton's former media strategist is not a step toward a future White House bid.
The bare-knuckle media strategist who advised Hillary Rodham Clinton and helped re-elect Mayor Michael Bloomberg is joining the billionaire mayor's administration.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered nothing splashy in a reserved "state of the city" speech Wednesday, saying his third term would be about efficiency as he faces the "unfinished business" of economic recovery.
An updated campaign finance report from Mayor Michael Bloomberg shows he spent more than $108 million on his campaign to win a third term.
The last time Harold Ford Jr. ran for the U.S. Senate, he spoke proudly about his pickup truck, his "friend" President George W. Bush, his support for Chief Justice John Roberts and a voting record that "doesn't describe a liberal."
Former U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. began crafting his argument Tuesday for a potential bid to unseat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, reinventing himself as an independent thinker battling "Washington insiders."
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is striking a humble tone on the first day of his third term.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg wraps up his second term this week, a sophomore effort that will be known for fewer splashy successes and more failures than his first four years as a politically untested businessman.
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