Sierra Shields' family hopes the federal government will replicate a New York measure that allows families to immediately file adult missing persons reports.

NEW YORK — Brooklyn Councilman Charles Barron lashed out at the New York Daily News today, and subsequently Mayor Michael Bloomberg, over reports of his involvement in a building project in East New York. The Daily News reported Wednesday that Barron backed the Related Companies’ plan for a Gateway II shopping complex in East NY […]

When New York State Democrats gathered at their nominating convention in May, they chose an all-white ticket of statewide candidates headed by a standard-bearer, Andrew Cuomo, who has put forward a program that would balance the state’s $9 billion-plus budget deficit at the expense of working-class people.

Q. Do you think Cuomo is relying in the debate on you attacking him from the left and Carl Paladino attacking him from the right and he’ll come off looking mainstream? A. “He can rely on that all he wants. He has to answer to the people of the State of New York, not who’s […]