The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said yesterday that nothing is off the table when it comes to potential service cuts to get the agency’s budget back on track.
The agency may have to consider dramatically scaling back or even eliminating overnight subway service.
The agency says without a rescue plan from Albany, the planned increases and cuts will [...]
Bills that would require renewals of handgun permits and a system to tag and track spent shell casings have touched off the first gun-control battle in years at New York’s Capitol.
The Democrat-controlled Assembly approved both measures this week. And they face a better chance at becoming law now that the Senate also is controlled by [...]
At Community Board 14, serving Flatbush and Midwood, open the door and you’ll find staffers planning Thursday’s career forum for hundreds of neighborhood teens.
“This year we are doing a youth conference which will have an exhibition space, basically focusing on helping teens find jobs, or internship or volunteer opportunities,” said Community Board 14 Community Coordinator [...]
One person from Albany County and two from Schenectady County are suspected victims of swine flu as the new influenza strain moves across the state.
Officials from both counties said Wednesday they sent specimens to the state’s Wadsworth laboratory for testing. The sick Albany County resident had traveled to an area with confirmed cases; Schenectady County’s [...]
Mayor Bloomberg will propose a sales-tax increase tomorrow higher than the 0.25 percent spike he had recommended in January, sources told The Post.
They said the mayor needs to boost the city’s sales-tax rate because a series of other sales-tax measures he had been counting on to raise $894 million for his $60 billion budget in [...]
As the number of cases of swine flu continues to rise and the first U.S. death from the illness is being reported in Texas, local health officials are reminding New Yorkers that all of the city cases are no worse than a typical flu.
Four city schools are currently closed due to fears of flu contagion.
A [...]
Gov. David A. Paterson has signed legislation allowing Nassau and Suffolk counties to install cameras to catch red-light violators at dangerous intersections in each county, officials said Tuesday.
The bills would raise about $3 million to $4 million this year in Nassau County. Suffolk officials said they don’t anticipate any revenue this year but expect to [...]
Suffolk county legislator Jon Cooper is setting up an exploratory committee to raise money for a possible run against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in 2010.
The list of potential opponents for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand just got longer. With polls showing nearly half of New Yorkers still not familiar enough with Ms. Gillibrand to have any opinion of [...]
C. Scott Vanderhoef will seek re-election as Rockland’s county executive.
Vanderhoef, a Republican, told The Journal News yesterday that he intends to run for a fifth four-year term.
He will make a formal announcement at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Blauvelt firehouse and, with it, launch a campaign battle against Orangetown Supervisor Thom Kleiner, a Democrat who [...]
A federal appeals court concluded Tuesday there are no constitutional obstructions to letting Mayor Michael Bloomberg run for a third term this year.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said that absent a flaw in the law or a violation of the Constitution, ”It is not the role of this court to interject [...]
