New York

"This is not a project we relish," city transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said while presenting options for its $3 billion-plus overhaul of part of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

Stringer called for a chief diversity officer in every city agency, stronger building code enforcement, and procurement time frames.

The Protecting Family and Small Business Tax Cuts Act of 2018 which passed 220 to 191 isn’t expected to become law because the Senate won’t consider it this year.

The letter initiated by Rep. Leonard Lance of New Jersey threatens congressional oversight measures if passenger rail line funds are not released.

The authority, one of the largest municipal bond issuers, will use the new benchmark to reduce its exposure to Libor, which is slated to sunset.

County Executive Steve Bellone unveiled a budget proposal that he says would eliminate its structural deficit with recurring revenue streams.

Andy Byford, president of the MTA's New York City Transit unit, said timing relative to budget cycles is essential.

The threat of lower tax revenues after the IRS denied the SALT tax workaround isn’t the only worry.

Moody's Investors Service dropped the Long Island county to Baa1 from A3.

A three decade veteran of the municipal market, Marjorie Henning was most recently a director in the municipal securities division at Citigroup.

Amid hurricanes and other natural disasters and with federal funding a wild card, municipalities and states adjust.

The budget Nassau County Executive Laura Curran released this week aims to tackle past debt incurred by the prior administration.

Legacy costs are crowding out programmatic spending, according to a report by the Citizens Budget Commission's Ana Champeny and Maria Doulis.

The flattening of the U.S. Treasury yield curve can be a misleading signal of recession, New York City’s Bureau of Asset Management said.

Profits for New York City’s securities industry have climbed to the highest level since the end of the recession sparked largely by the 2008 global financial crisis, a state report said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Scott Stringer want to double energy efficiency investment to $4 billion over three years.

Ten years ago, the financial avalanche that altered the municipal bond market gathered speed with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.

The $582 million deal in the spring was the largest pooled school district bond issuance in the 74-year history of the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sent letters to the Internal Revenue Service and to Treasury's Inspector General for Tax Administration threatening litigation and and asking for a probe of alleged undue political interference.

There was a slight increase in August for medium-term inflation expectations, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.