Ed Koch, Outspoken Mayor Who Brought N.Y. Back From The Brink, Dies
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, whose larger-than-life personality was well-suited to the nation's biggest city but could also get him in trouble, has died. He was 88.His spokesman, George Arzt,...
View ArticleFamed N.Y. Pizzeria Among Businesses Struggling To Reopen After Sandy
It's been more than three months since Hurricane Sandy crashed ashore, and many family-owned businesses in New York and New Jersey are still struggling to get back on their feet.One of those businesses...
View ArticleNYC's Fast Food Workers Strike, Demand 'Living Wages'
Fast-food restaurants were a little bit slower Thursday in New York City. Hundreds of workers staged a one-day strike in what organizers are calling the biggest job action ever in that industry. It's a...
View ArticleNew York Tobacco Regulations Light Up Public Health Debate
If you're under 21, you may soon have a hard time lighting up in New York City.
View ArticleCyber Criminals Drain $45 Million From ATMs Around The World
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, prosecutors are calling it the biggest bank heist in New York City since the 1970s. They say a gang of cybercriminals drained $45 million from ATMs around the...
View ArticleBoston Bombings Prompt Fresh Look At Unsolved Murders
An unsolved triple murder in the Boston suburbs is getting a closer look in the wake of the marathon bombings. One of the victims may have been a friend of bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. That's...
View ArticleCooper Union Students Fight For Freedom From Tuition
When students at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York took over the president's office one month ago to protest the school's decision to charge tuition, they painted the...
View ArticleAt Coney Island, The (Mermaid) Show Must Go On
Not even Superstorm Sandy could keep the mermaids from coming back to Brooklyn.The Mermaid Parade is a nautically themed and occasionally naughty parade that draws close to a million people to Coney...
View ArticleBig Personalities Are Front And Center In NYC Mayoral Race
Everything about the New York City mayor's race is supersized.No less than a dozen candidates are vying to succeed Michael Bloomberg as leader of the nation's biggest city — five Republicans and seven...
View ArticleNew York Toasts Long-Awaited Revival Of Its Distilleries
A century ago, New York could claim that much of its liquor was local, thanks to distilleries large and small that supplied a lot of the whiskey, gin and rum that kept New York City (and the rest of...
View ArticleFast-Food Strikers Demand A 'Living Wage'
At a Wendy's restaurant in Lower Manhattan on Monday, protesters urged the lunchtime crowd to skip the Value Menu for one day. They blocked the sidewalk and half of the street.Shanell Young held a red...
View ArticleCory Booker: Supermayor Or Self-Promoter?
In one week, voters in New Jersey go to the polls in a special primary election for a U.S. Senate seat.No one on the ballot has more name recognition than Cory Booker, the 44-year-old mayor of Newark,...
View ArticleNew York City Council To Vote On Tough Police Oversight Laws
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: In New York, the city council is poised to vote today on some of the toughest police oversight laws in decades. The vote comes just weeks after a judge ruled that the...
View ArticleYet Another Democrat Takes The Lead In NYC Mayor Race
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View ArticleNew York's Next Mayor, Bound To Be A Brooklynite
This week, the center of New York City's political universe was downtown Brooklyn.With the dust settling from the mayoral primary, the two candidates who will be on the ballot to replace outgoing Mayor...
View ArticleTime For Superstorm Sandy Evacuees To Check Out Of Hotels
Almost 300 Sandy victims are still living in hotel rooms on the taxpayers' dime — but not for long. City officials say the program is expensive, and it's time for those remaining Sandy evacuees to move...
View ArticleBooker Gets A Run For His Money In N.J. Senate Race
Cory Booker, the celebrity mayor of Newark, N.J., was expected to cruise to victory in the special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat of the late Frank Lautenberg. But just a week before voters go...
View ArticleThe Slow, Uneven Rebuilding After Superstorm Sandy
After Hurricane Sandy, the south shore of Staten Island looked like it had been hit by a tsunami. The storm surge devastated whole neighborhoods suddenly, in a matter of hours. In the year since the...
View ArticleNYC Race Focuses On Income Gap, But How Much Can A Mayor Do?
Voters in New York City go to the polls Tuesday to choose their next mayor, and it appears all but certain that they'll elect Bill de Blasio, the city's public advocate.The Democrat has built a wide...
View ArticleRemembering The Singing 'Mayor Of MacDougal Street'
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