New York Times

The officials’ relationship has often been acrimonious, but has usually been veiled in public civility. Full Story »

With the Nets and Knicks off to a miserable start, being a street scalper has never been harder in New York. Full Story »

Using terms including “idiocy” and “sophistry,” the court ridiculed the state’s decision that the area wanted by the university was blighted. Full Story »

Teresa Gates is confronting the one-two punch of the economic meltdown and a stroke: Just as she trained for a new career, she became ill. Full Story »

Advocates and Senate Democrats leading the effort to build support for the legislation said they felt the governor had little political capital to leverage. Full Story »

Kay Stafford is at the side of the former State Senate leader Joseph L. Bruno every day during his trial on federal corruption charges. Full Story »

Dec. 3, 2009. Full Story »

The gambling concern, already under state control, plans to shift its focus to telephone and online operations. Full Story »

Letters from about 75 friends are part of a defense effort to attain the dismissal of the most serious charge Brooke Astor’s son was convicted of, first-degree grand larceny. Full Story »

The comptroller’s office said that each New Yorker was on the hook for $7,760 of the city’s debt burden. And that’s not counting the national and state debts. Full Story »

Prosecutors said they planned to file additional charges against Najibullah Zazi, who is accused of planning to set off bombs, but did not give more details. Full Story »

A large technical school in Brooklyn, a school in the Bronx and two in Manhattan are added to the 91 the Bloomberg administration has closed. Full Story »

Beyond the jewels and trinkets of the crowded diamond district in Midtown Manhattan, there are plenty of places for eating and sightseeing. Full Story »

Prosecutors and victim advocates blame inadequate police training in how to ask women the right questions. Full Story »

The solid roll-down security gate has been criticized as too forbidding, or for spray painters, too inviting. But some say they don’t have to be a blight. Full Story »

Mr. Mitchell, who also resurrected Longchamps Restaurants and others, collected pre-Columbian gold artifacts, which he gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Full Story »

Advocates of gay marriage moved away from a strategy of incremental change, but the gamble has not paid off. Full Story »

Prosecutors and victim advocates blame inadequate police training in how to ask exploited women, especially immigrant prostitutes, the right questions. Full Story »

Two sisters living on the Upper East Side have been selling handicrafts made by women from an impoverished community of garbage collectors in Cairo for the past 15 years. Full Story »

On orders of the City Council, storefront roll-down gates, the unnoticed wallpaper of New York at night, have been legislated against, some right into extinction. Full Story »

Recently released documents offer glimpses from a decade ago of a rising star in the Roman Catholic Church in America as he navigated a scandal that still threatens the church’s reputation and finances. Full Story »

The Bloomberg administration said the Manhattan district attorney’s office has secretly maintained accounts outside of the financial review process. Full Story »

The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund helps clients of the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service express themselves through art. Full Story »

The soldier, Joshua Hunter, recently returned from 15 months’ service in Iraq, his father said. Full Story »

A judge told Jack Rhodes, who assaulted three women in Queens, that the sentence equaled almost one year for every dollar stolen. Full Story »