New York

Gerrard P. Bushell from Bank of New York Mellon has been tapped to replace Paul Williams as president of the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York.

The Federal Railroad Administration has approved a $967.1 million loan to New York’s MTA for signal system safety improvements along Long Island and Metro-North commuter railroads.

New York City’s participation in the green bonds would provide a huge momentum boost for an emerging financial tool, said climate change expert Alan Rubin.

New York's Suffolk County is planning a 2016 capital budget that lessens borrowing thanks to state and federal assistance.

The market for green bonds is expanding exponentially and New York City should tap it for multiple benefits, said city Comptroller Scott Stringer.

New York State and New York City comptrollers Thomas DiNapoli and Scott Stringer, respectively, called on the SEC to compel fossil fuel industry companies to better disclosure climate change material risks

Rising retirement benefit costs are threatening municipal services in California and the problem will worsen short-term, according to a Manhattan Institute report.

The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance is on pace to stop more than half a billion dollars of improper refund claims in 2015.

Raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour in New York City by 2019 would boost wages by $10 billion a year and benefit its nearly 1.5 million workers, Comptroller Scott Stringer said.

Former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed is digging in for more pushback from the largest public pension fund in the U.S. in his latest push to give California municipalities more leeway to control pension costs.

The film and television industry generated more than a half billion in economic activity for Long Island's Nassau County in 2013 and 2014, according to a new report.

The New York City Transitional Finance Authority intends to sell about $1.03 billion of future tax secured subordinate bonds this month.

Nine large public pension funds, including those from New York and Connecticut, have asked the SEC to strengthen the disclosure of corporate board diversity.

With a renewed push to legalize professional mixed martial arts in New York, supporters say the Empire State could be looking at millions in new annual revenue.

The municipal bond market will have an ally in the top echelon of Senate leadership if Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., becomes the Senate Democratic leader in 2017, as is widely expected, tax and municipal bond experts said.

New York City expects to save $3.4 billion on health care by 2018 through municipal labor agreements, said director of labor relations Robert Linn.

A $142 billion budget for New York State approved Tuesday night devotes billions toward infrastructure enhancements.

FEMA is providing its largest grant ever -- $3 billion—to the New York City Housing Authority to repair and protect 33 developments severely damaged during Hurricane Sandy.

A New York City agency failed to properly monitor contractors after Hurricane Sandy and paid $6.8 million to them for flawed or incomplete, Comptroller Scott Stringer said in an audit.

New York City's budget forecast in the coming years is "sound", but still faces risks that could alter estimates, according to a new report from the Independent Budget Office.