New York

The New York City Council approved the final $82.1 billion fiscal 2017 budget to which its leaders and Mayor Bill de Blasio had already agreed.

Former Bridgeport, Conn. Mayor Bill Finch has been tapped to lead the New York State Thruway Authority.

New York State’s $178 billion pension fund had its worst fiscal year since the Great Recession, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced Monday.

Most New York City agencies improved their rate of starting capital projects in 2015, said city Comptroller Scott Stringer.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday that he and the City Council had reached agreement on a final $82.1 billion budget for Fiscal 2017, the earliest the two sides had approved a fiscal plan in 15 years.

Nassau Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. is selling its Farmingdale, N.Y. branch to pay debt service for revenue anticipation notes it defaulted on in March.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has struck a disability pension deal with unions representing firefighters, sanitation workers and correction officers.

A Dowling College alumni group has launched a campaign to save the 48-year old Long Island school after it announced plans to close last week.

The New York City Housing Development Corp. intends to issue more than $455 million in bonds and provide more than $115 million in additional financing for affordable housing.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to prop up New York City’s hospital system has inspired skepticism for relying on outside help seen as unlikely and efficiencies that nibble on margins full of red ink.