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Suzanne Shank, co-founder of Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., was honored at the Black Girls Rock! 2017 award show, the BET television network’s annual celebration of top African-American women in the fields of finance, entertainment and politics.

An Orange County agency agreed to issue $8 million in tax-exempt bonds for a Hasidic congregation in June, money that the group said it would use to buy the two boys schools and surrounding property that it had been renting on County Route 105 in Monroe and Woodbury.

New York City’s Department of Education awarded over 500 non-competitive contracts worth more than $2.7 billion, according to the comptroller.

The Hudson River rail tunnel project is the first phase of the $24 billion Gateway Program.

Nicotine reduction could reduce the lure of smoking and the taxes cigarettes generate.

Ronnie Lowenstein, director of the watchdog New York City Independent Budget Office, examines the city's economy, its budget and its variables. Hosted by Paul Burton and Chip Barnett.

The vote culminated a five-year effort designed to fund public improvements, notably to transit infrastructure.

Stratford Shields, a long-time municipal finance professional, comes to Wells from RBC Capital Markets in Chicago.

The end of a casino revenue sharing agreement impacts the city's credit, says S&P.

Officials from the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority testified about the agency’s recently released subway action plan at a hearing Tuesday before the New York City Council’s transportation committee.

Chapman and Cutler LLP expanded its municipal and structured finance practices by hiring a 10 lawyer team.

The subway crisis could change the political landscape, New York's mayor says.

The New York mayor and his supporters must shepherd the bill through Albany.

Bolstered by by gains in New York City, local sales taxes collections rose 3.3% across New York State in the first half, state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli reported.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority shook up their leadership as they battle to reverse deterioration in the region's transit systems.

The New York State Financial Control Board on Wednesday said that New York City’s finances are in good shape and that the city’s doesn’t need a resumption of state control.

Public finance guru Richard Ravitch analyzes the New York region’s transit crisis and compares it with the problems he faced when he oversaw the MTA in the late 1970s. Hosted by Paul Burton.

One of Kevin O'Toole and Rick Cotton's priorities as chairman and executive director will be to restart the search for a chief executive officer.

New York State may face fiscal challenges from revenue growth that's slower than forecast earlier and from potential federal budget changes, according to the state’s top fiscal officer.

Lacking a new revenue source, the agency that runs New York City's subway may add to its $38 billion of debt.