Yuh-Line Niou became the first Asian-American woman to win election to the New York State Assembly for a Manhattan district – and it happens...

Two of the “Three Men in a Room” — Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos — are bound for prison, but relationships with influential politicians...

(Video by Alistair Gardiner) Sheldon Silver’s conviction this week — on seven counts of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering — drew an...

Lawmakers are hoping to push the expiration of rent regulations, originally scheduled for today, to Wednesday at midnight. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said he’d...

From the June issue: Real estate issues took center stage in the corruption scandals that toppled the leadership of the State Assembly and Senate at...

The 421a tax abatement program is causing some trouble in paradise. Tensions are growing between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Capital New...

Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the New York State Assembly, was arrested on federal corruption charges on Thursday for alleged payments he received from a...

Federal authorities are reportedly investigating New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for payments he received from a law firm that seeks real estate tax...

Assembly member Vito Lopez was forced to give up his housing committee chairmanship and resign as the head of Brooklyn’s Democratic Party last August, following accusations...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s efforts to revise the long-standing tax abatement afforded to condominium and co-op owners in the city is meeting fierce resistance in...

Grand Central Terminal In the latest twist to the saga of Apple’s lease at Grand Central Terminal, the State Assembly will also investigate the...

Buoyed by the endorsement of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the State Assembly proposed new legislation this morning that would cap property taxes at 2 percent,...

The State Assembly has passed a bill to extend and bolster the city’s rent regulation laws through 2016, Speaker Sheldon Silver’s office announced yesterday...

The State Senate voted 45 to 17 yesterday in favor of the property tax cap bill Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed last week, and now...

Negotiations have resumed between the U.S. Postal Service and the New York City Department of Education, in a deal that would turn the Peck...

Silver is duking it out with Lower Manhattan’s pest problem New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver introduced a set of guidelines for reducing...

From left: Michael Bloomberg and William Thompson A camera lens analogy might help voters understand where Michael Bloomberg and William Thompson, who are New...