City Council

The City Council faced off Tuesday on controversial legislation that would boost wages for some workers.

City Councilwoman Margaret Chin said skateboarders are overwhelming the new East River Waterfront and damaging benches.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he's glad people hate the Department of Sanitation's shaming stickers, arguing that that's what makes them work.

A new policy announced by the Department of Homeless Services will require shelter seekers to prove that they have nowhere else to stay.

Community Board 12 will hold a public forum to discuss whether it should ask the city to reduce alternate side of the road parking by one day weekly.

The chic handbag maker will move into a massive new building in the Hudson Yards development, kicking off construction after years of delays.

A city department has nixed 26 other sites for alternative housing and is set to move forward with plans to build on a site neighbors want to see become a park.

City Council members said Tuesday that the largest round of layoffs since the mayor took office could have been prevented.

The community board will discuss a proposal to rename a block of East Sixth Street after longtime City Councilwoman Miriam Friedlander. 

Mayor Michael Bloomberg would have the final say to shoot down a terrorist plane, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told the City Council Thursday.

As winter approaches, the landmarked West Park Presbyterian Church is raising funds for a much-needed boiler.

The Department of Transportation has refused to give residents on West 34th Street daytime loading, and residents say they have no legal curbside access to their apartments.

The City Council's Land Use Committee voted Wednesay in favor of a plan to bring new life to Penn South's former Fur District.

Several business owners said their revenues have not recovered from the terror attacks.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced a new anti-gun violence task force Thursday after a wave of shootings in the city.