In the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, many New Yorkers imagined a grim future that has not come to pass.

Maria Baez is the rarest of the rare in New York City politics, a City Council incumbent in danger of losing her seat.

A professor of comparative English literature, Mr. Hovde played a key role in restoring calm to the campus after student protests in the spring of 1968.

Efforts to revamp New York?s scandal-marked Commission on Public Integrity failed as Republicans blocked the plan.

A Chinese woman with a mental illness who was trapped in immigration limbo has been released from a detention center and is awaiting a new hearing.

Whether Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village residents are owed refunds for rent overpayment is at stake in a case that may affect tenants citywide.

The Court of Appeals will be wading into an area of constitutional law that has been a battleground for clashes ? the boundaries of power between branches of government.

Thousands of people came out to see celebrities and fashion designers in stores around New York City as part of a retail promotion intended to encourage shopping.

The door opened for Edward F. Cox after Henry F. Wojtaszek, a county chairman, withdrew his candidacy despite support from Rudolph W. Giuliani.

In an hourlong debate before the 47-13 vote to confirm Jay H. Walder, some senators said the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was shortchanging customers and losing credibility with the public.