Andrew Siff

Carolyn Maloney, a veteran House Democrat from New York City, will for now take over the House committee that the late Rep. Elijah Cummings chaired,to a senior Democratic leadership aide told the Associated Press.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney was taken to a hospital after suffering an apparent medical episode and briefly fainting at an event in Manhattan Monday.

The number of homeless people living in the subways up more than 20 percent from last year – bringing the total to 2,178 individuals, according to a report released by the MTA task force in conjunction with the state-led Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance.

The MTA has approved its historic $51.5 billion capital spending proposal for 2020-2024. Board members in attendance Wednesday voted unanimously.

A police officer was shot in the wrist when she responded to a domestic violence call on Staten Island Tuesday, but she is expected to be OK, authorities said.

The plan, 72 percent of which is for New York City Transit, includes elevator upgrades at 70 more stations, a new extension to the Second Avenue subway into East Harlem and new signal technology for the Lexington Avenue line. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

The MTA announced a proposed $51.5 billion capital spending plan for 2020-2024, marking a 70 percent increase over its previous four-year plan and its largest one ever by far, as part of an aggressive effort to repair the agency’s aging infrastructure and accelerate service enhancements for the millions of New Yorkers who use its public transit system on a daily basis.

The NYPD is sending a clear message to its 36,000 rank-and-file officers following a tumultuous week: We’ve got your back.

On the same day the Trump administration announced a new rule that children in federal detention facilities can be held indefinitely, instead of only 20 days, local politicians toured a New Jersey detention facility.

Here are the complete remarks from NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill announcing the firing of officer Daniel Pantaleo in the 2014 death of Eric Garner.

NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill has fired the police officer accused of using a banned chokehold on Eric Garner in 2014, siding with the departmental trial judge who recommended termination earlier this month. O’Neill’s decision, revealed early Monday afternoon, is final, closing the years-long book on embattled NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo, whom a local grand jury and federal prosecuters all declined...

The MTA has been in the red for months — with a deficit of half a billion dollars –- and that led to some heated words Friday at a meeting and some bad news: a reduction in service.

NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill has fired the police officer accused of using a banned chokehold on Eric Garner in 2014, siding with the departmental trial judge who recommended termination earlier this month.

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s relationship with New York City’s police force was destined to be rocky.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday that he believes the NYPD officer who is accused of using a banned chokehold in the July 2014 death of Eric Garner should be fired.

Those who work and live in the Staten Island neighborhood where, in 2014, Eric Garner was stopped by police prior to his death, reacted to news of an NYPD judge recommending the officer accused of playing a role in his death be fired.

A chief medical examiner from St. Louis flown in as a key expert witness in the administrative trial of a New York City police officer accused of killing Eric Garner several years ago testified Wednesday that a chokehold did not kill Garner, contradicting the ruling of the New York City medical examiner.

Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler appeared weak and on the verge of passing out at a presser held by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Friday morning in Manhattan.