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A state senator has scheduled a daylong hearing for Friday on terrorism preparedness in New York City, featuring an array of experts in law enforcement, emergency response and counterterrorism. But [...]

The state budget plan that moved toward enactment on Wednesday calls for 10 percent cuts in aid to public colleges and universities, but it would add about $18 million a [...]

Two co-founders of the plan to build a Muslim community center and mosque in downtown Manhattan have begun exploring a new, and possibly competing, project: an interfaith cultural center that [...]

The imam who was named three weeks ago to lead religious services at the proposed Muslim community center and mosque near ground zero said Friday that he was stepping down. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Two weeks after the developer of a controversial Islamic center and mosque planned near ground zero distanced himself from the imam who co-founded the project, the imam has [...]

Long-simmering tensions between co-founders of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near ground zero led to a parting of the ways on Friday that sharply reduced the role of one: [...]

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York announced on Tuesday that 26 elementary schools and one high school that had received heavy subsidies in recent years because of declining enrollment [...]

Many New Yorkers were suspicious of the newcomers' plans to build a house of worship in Manhattan. Some feared the project was being underwritten by foreigners. Others said the strangers' [...]

By early November, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York plans to release a list of parochial schools that may have to close as part of its plan to cut [...]

For more than a quarter-century, while Roman Catholic leaders around the country have closed parochial schools by the dozens in the face of rising costs and falling enrollments, the Archdiocese [...]

With their call to introspection and atonement, the Jewish High Holy Days have always challenged rabbis to find avenues into the consciences of their congregations -- on personal matters, and [...]

While New Yorkers have been drawn into an increasingly vehement debate over an Islamic center and mosque planned near ground zero, another religious squabble has been simmering. And on Thursday, [...]

The furor over plans to build an Islamic center two blocks from ground zero had already been joined by several politicians. On Monday, two politicians were joined in turn by [...]

In the storm of anger and accusation over an Islamic center and mosque planned near ground zero, one thing seems clear to Laique Khan: His fellow Muslims have a right [...]

The board of trustees of a Roman Catholic Church on Staten Island, whose members include Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, has formally rejected a controversial proposal to sell a vacant convent [...]

A plan to sell a Roman Catholic convent on Staten Island to a Muslim group for use as a mosque is faltering in the face of community opposition. In a [...]

When news spread the other day that work crews were draping black steel netting over the facade of Our Lady of Loreto Church, the people fighting to save the building [...]

As they have for the past four years, prominent people and passers-by joined together outside New York's Italian Consulate on Wednesday to take turns reading the names of 8,600 Jews [...]

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre plans to offer buyouts to 1,500 of its 6,000 employees next month as part of a cost-cutting plan to save its schools and [...]

It is a familiar drill in nearly all of the nation's Roman Catholic school systems: a new alarm every few years over falling enrollment; church leaders huddling over what to […]

The Diocese of Brooklyn has proposed closing 14 elementary schools at the end of the current academic year, a plan that would mean that one of the nation's largest Catholic […]

The 'Downtown' that Petula Clark evoked in her 1964 pop song of that name (where 'you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares') never made much sense to […]

In a city like this, which was suctioned clean of its old life more than a quarter-century ago and has been waiting ever since for a new one, people do […]

Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would go to court for the right to expand a planned catering hall at Jones Beach to include a 26,000-square-foot basement to accommodate […]

GARDEN CITY, N.Y.Donald Trump's plan to build a catering hall at Jones Beach was reviewed in some technical detail at a prolonged state hearing here on Tuesday afternoon. But technical […]

A state prosecutor was given 30 days by a Suffolk County judge on Friday to decide how to proceed with a case involving the 1988 murders of a Long Island […]

Mike Huckabee wrote a book this year in which he lamented the 'seething anger' surrounding the immigration debate, advocated giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship and concluded that in […]

An ambitious plan to transform the vast concrete tundra around the Nassau Coliseum into a downtown district with restaurants, cafes, a pedestrian mall, shops and artificial canals was presented to […]

When she arrived at an assisted living center for a candidates' forum here recently, Kathleen C. Hochul, the Erie County clerk, spent a few minutes explaining what county clerks do. […]

It is part of the local lore, the way people in some cities know the win-loss record of their N.F.L. team, that the General Electric Company once employed 40,000 people […]

In what could mark the beginning of a showdown over the Long Island cable television market and potentially over the wider metropolitan New York market, Verizon Communications has filed a […]

From a certain spot here, there is concrete as far as the eye can see and in every direction. There are concrete roadways, parking lots, an incinerator smokestack, overpasses, buildings […]

Plans for the city's first elevated park -- a singular ribbon of green space stretching a mile and a half along an abandoned railroad viaduct 30 feet above the streets […]