The city wants outside firms to consider bankrolling ideas like using sensors to track available parking spaces or using mobile phones to pay for parking – so no driver would have to fish for quarters again. City Hall News reports.
Criminal justice advocates support Cuomo's plan to downsize the prison system, but some unions as well as communities across the state, particularly those in the economically hard-pressed upstate areas, are concerned about the loss of jobs.
The five month saga that was the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual assault case comes to a close this week as the former chief of the International Monetary Fund prepares to return to Paris.
The Democrats vying to be mayor of New York City in 2013 have until midnight to raise cash for the first six-month filing period of the year, and with former Rep. Anthony Weiner knocked out of the race, the remaining candidates hope their balance sheets will be a sign of their strength.
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A couple who ran a Brooklyn deli, out of which developed the critically acclaimed book "My Korean Deli," weigh in on what makes the best bodega.
The Asian American Writers Workshop looks beyond the map in its attempt to define Chinatown, examining the Chinatowns of New York as a set of memories, spaces and associations through a collection of oral histories.VIDEO
Post 9/11, photographers -- like all New Yorkers -- have been forced to
reimagine New York.
reimagine New York.
The Bayview Correctional Facility in Chelsea had the highest percentage of alleged incidents of inmate sexual abuse by staff in the country in 2008 and 2009.
