New York

With two weeks left to use its remaining $90.2 million allocation of recovery zone facility bonds, New York City is projecting that $18.7 million of unused capacity will be left to help finance World Trade Center development.

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to issue up to $750 million of taxable Build America Bonds next week to fund capital needs in 2011.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey passed a $7.17 billion operating and capital budget Tuesday for calendar year 2011 that keeps operating growth flat while boosting capital spending.

Putnam County, N.Y., executive-elect Vincent Leibell 3rd pleaded guilty Monday to obstruction of justice and tax evasion. It was unclear Monday who will run the county beginning on Jan. 1 when the long-time state politician would have taken office.

New York's two largest issuers of affordable housing bonds plan to end the year with deals under the revised New Issue Bond Purchase program.

Expected rents at a rising office tower at the World Trade Center site will back debt service on $1.31 billion of tax-exempt Liberty revenue bonds expected to price this week, but their real security comes from local ­governments.

New York’s capital projects were ­financed with debt for 56% of the costs in fiscal 2010 compared to 42% in ­fiscal 2001, according to a report released Tuesday by the state comptroller’s ­office.

Nassau County, N.Y., plans to competitively market $125 million of general obligation bonds this week as questions linger about its finances.

The controversy over the Atlantic Yards development project in Brooklyn spawned lawsuits, protests — and now a theater production.

New York City Comptroller John Liu on Wednesday urged Congress to extend the taxable Build America Bond program.

New York Gov. David Paterson will press lawmakers to act to close a $315 million current-year deficit in an extraordinary session of the Legislature scheduled for Monday.

Former political adviser Hank Morris last week pleaded guilty in a pay-to-play kickback scheme involving the New York State pension fund.

A New York credit created last year to finance certain workers’ compensation costs will finally debut next week. The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York plans to sell $97 million of taxable pledged assessment bonds, which are expected to price Dec. 2.

New York is likely to impose a property tax cap next year but its effectiveness could depend on local decision-makers, according to a commentary published Monday by a government think tank.

New York is reaching out to retail investors with a website launched to coincide with a $1.1 billion personal income tax bond deal next week. The deal is the first to appear on the site, which went live last month, and with a glut of year-end issuance ­driving muni rates sharply higher ­recently, extra marketing couldn’t hurt.

California, New York, and Illinois are making a play for more than $1.2 billion of high-speed rail funding that was awarded to two Midwestern states whose Republican governors-elect plan to reject the grants.

New York City will lower its assumed rate of return on its pension funds, which will increase the amount the city contributes, Comptroller John Liu said Thursday.

The Municipal Bond Club of New York raised $3,500 for the East Harlem Tutorial Program at its second annual fundraiser on Nov. 4.

New York attorney general and Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo sued former Quadrangle Group principal Steven Rattner Thursday over his alleged role in a widespread kickback scheme to obtain investments from New York’s largest pension fund, the $135 billion Common Retirement Fund.

The New York State Thruway Authority approved a $1.1 billion budget Wednesday with no plans to issue general revenue bonds in 2011 for capital projects. Instead, the agency plans to roll over its $680 million of outstanding bond anticipation notes that are due in mid-2011.