New York City Politics News

A Christmas-card category known as "difficult times" has undergone significant expansion since last year. About two dozen such offerings are on display this season from Hallmark Cards Inc., up from five last Christmas. "We can say it," says one new...

Morgenthau , the Manhattan district attorney, used a barnyard vulgarity to describe accusations by the mayor’s office...Bloomberg , the 67-year-old billionaire who was just re-elected to his third term, have long shared an uneasy, sometimes bitter relationship.

A new report says New York City's fiscal outlook isn't as bad as it was last spring. The report by the city Independent Budget Office says the financial sector has particularly turned around. It projects Wall Street profits of $59...

Discomfort and Joined [Open Caption] Best Known As: Political Figure Gist: Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is the current Mayor of New York City. He was listed as the eighth-richest American, with a net worth of US $16...

Senate will be in Sycamore on Saturday for a meet-and-greet session. David Hoffman, former federal prosecutor and Inspector General of Chicago, will be at Johnny’s Charhouse, 1950 DeKalb Ave., from 4:30-6:30 p.m., according to the campaign’s Web site.

I nside the offices of Tradeworx, an emerging player in the secretive and controversial world of high-frequency trading, it's dead quiet as staffers pore over the “tape,” financial industry speak for the record of the day's transactions...They were hired straight...

The radio business has nothing to do with the plan to overhaul the nation’s system for regulating banks and other financial institutions. Except, it turns out, in Congress. One of most intriguing mysteries here in recent weeks is why members...