Move over, Muzak. This government office treats callers to tasty snippets of America while they are on hold.

A Supreme Court case challenges the interpretation of immigration laws about drug-related convictions.

Nonprofit workers say the man known as Heavy is the last person living on the streets of Times Square.

In Albany, lobbyists are free to mingle with legislators in the State Assembly’s chambers, disregarding signs meant to create distance.

Nearly half the cameras that have been installed in the subway system don’t work, says the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

A renovation worker trapped in the rubble of the three-story structure in Brooklyn was critically injured.

For the Adirondack Winter Forty-Sixers, an elite group of mountain hikers, winter is the time to tackle the region’s 46 highest summits.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and John Sampson, the Senate leader, inhabit different political worlds: a safe majority and a shaky one.

A city law barring more than three unrelated people from living in an apartment or house is rarely enforced.

An ambitious effort to reduce poverty in the city draws on veterans of New York Adult’s business sector to give free counsel and help put low-income people on the path to financial empowerment.