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The former Mayor of Indianapolis, Stephen Goldsmith, will join Mayor Michael Bloomberg's team as the next Deputy Mayor of Operations.

St. Vincent's Hospital is closing for good today after months of feuding and years of financial struggles. The 160-year-old Greenwich Village institution will stop accepting even emergency cases at 7 A.M. this morning.

More than 600 transit workers have received notices that they will lose their jobs in June and July.

New York State Majority Leader Pedro Espada, Jr. has said New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's second civil law suit targeting Espada, Jr.'s business dealings is nothing but political assassination by installments.

Says Bronx State Senator ran fake jobs program and paid participants $1.70 per hour.

With the budget now 27 days overdue, Gov. David Paterson is telling New York lawmakers that the time for negotiating a budget between themselves is over.

A former Queens student pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to help Al Qaeda.

New York State is helping an Upper East Side hospital assume some of the functions of St. Vincent's Medical Center, as the Greenwich Village hospital prepares to close its doors for good.

In the city’s effort to reduce New Yorkers' salt consumption 16 restaurants and companies have committed to the National Salt Reduction initiative.

Get ready for The Wall Street Journal New York edition. The Journal is launching a new section today and it's all about local news--schools, real estate, and of course City Hall.

Najibullah Zazi's co-conspirator in foiled homemade bomb plot admits to aiding al-Qaida.

Seeks records on ten Senate employees with alleged ties to Espada's health care center in the Bronx.

President Barack Obama brought his case for financial reform to New York on Thursday.

After seven years of fighting the Atlantic Yards Project in Brooklyn, the last remaining holdout is leaving.

The raid comes a day after Attorney General Cuomo accused Espada, Jr. of siphoning $14 million from his nonprofit.

Unofficial results show New Jersey voters rejected a majority of local school district budgets. That hasn't happened since 1976.

Union members reached a new contract with building owners just after midnight.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says Bronx State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, Jr., has been lining his own pocket and those of his friends with $14 million of taxpayer money.

As a strike deadline looms at midnight tonight, some of the city's top elected officials say doormen may strike and they will support them.

Contract negotiations continue to take place between building owners and the union representing nearly 30,000 doormen. The union, Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ, says it's willing to strike, but meanwhile, it's conducting a public organization campaign, via robocall.