New York

The negative fund balance once totaled $138 million.

Amid East Coast transit systems' overcrowding and strained capital budgets, advocates tout ferries as low-cost alternatives.

Nine states, including Texas and Virginia, received the lowest D-minus grade from the Volcker Alliance for handling retirement costs.

The state faces a budget deficit, lower-than-expected tax revenues and federal funding cuts.

Funding shortfalls, delayed expansion projects, and gridlock threaten the viability of the Amazon bids, according to the Tri-State Transportation Campaign.

This marks the 37^th straight year the city is in the black, said the city's comptroller.

The Northeast Women in Public Finance will present this year's Freda Johnson Award for Trailblazing Women in Public Finance to Carole Brown and Julie Morrone at The Bond Buyer's Deal of the Year ceremony on Dec. 6 in New York City.

Plans call for a $354 million pipe upgrade at the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant in East Rockaway.

Wall Street profits were up 33% from the year-earlier period, according to New York's state comptroller.

The $145 million initiative is intended to fortify the Rockaway Peninsula.

County lawmakers' proposal to remove $60 million in fee increases might run afoul of a New York State fiscal monitoring board.

A constitutional convention could set the stage for debates about state borrowing limits and local revenue-raising powers.

The city has amassed more than $95 billion in other post-employment obligations without any credible plan to pay it off, the report says.

Municipal bond veteran Paula Dagen will join the Northeast public finance group.

The new system would feature enhanced technology and integrate across all the authority's subway, bus and commuter rail units.

Michel Faulkner, the Republican candidate for New York City comptroller, discusses how he would manage the city's debt, and work toward spending controls and Housing Authority overhaul. Hosted by Paul Burton.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says it has spent almost $1 billion, with more on the way.

The former police detective turned entrepreneur and actor takes aim at Mayor Bill de Blasio.

New York mayoral candidate and former police detective Bo Dietl explains how he would make city government more effective if elected, with such initiatives as zero-based budgeting, CompStat metrics throughout all departments and reduced rates-of-return assumptions for the pension funds. Hosted by Paul Burton.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer cited pension fund gains while challenger Michel Faulkner said the incumbent doesn't stand up to mayor Bill de Blasio's spending.