
By ARI PAUL and DAVID SIMS
Even as Mayor Bloomberg asked city agencies to make $1.5 billion in budget cuts covering this fiscal year and next to cope with anticipated losses in tax revenues from Wall Street, he said he believed the chopping could be done without employee layoffs.
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By ARI PAUL
Federal agents Sept. 24 collected documents pertaining to disability retirement applications from the Long Island Rail Road a day after Governor Paterson asked State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and the Inspector General of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to probe the inordinately hi... More...

By DAVID SIMS
The city will pay an estimated $74 million to Teachers without job assignments over the next year, according to a new report, something United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten blames on the Department of Education for hiring too many new instructors. More...

By TOMMY HALLISSEY
During the last 14 years in The Bronx, the murder rate has dropped nearly 75 percent. Gone are the days of more than 250 homicides a year, but the crime decline, which removed the borough's "Bronx is Burning" image, has slowed noticeably: the seven major crimes fell just 3. More...