Gov. Christie cancels the ARC Tunnel for a second time.

President Barack Obama has formally declared parts of New York City a disaster area because of the tornados and severe storms that ripped through Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island last month.

The new skyscraper in Midtown won't just change the views of and from the Empire State Building.

Almost 150 employees of the MTA earn more in overtime than from their base salaries, according to an audit by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. The report assails the MTA's lax attitude towards overtime and calculates that the Authority spent nearly $600 million last year paying employees time-and-a-half.

To see how support for a union at the E-ZPass customer service center on Staten Island has fallen off this year, all you have to do is show up on a Thursday. That’s the day when workers there, as well as at other places where there are workers represented by the Communications Workers of America union, wear red shirts to show their solidarity. And what does it look like there?

In Staten Island, police have made one arrest and are expected to make another shortly for last weekend's assault on an 18-year-old high schooler who was heading home from his job busing tables early last Saturday morning.

The MTA is giving monthly and weekly MetroCard users a choice: higher fares or higher fares.

As previously reported, the MTA is proposing to limit the number of times that riders can use weekly and monthly MetroCards. But in the fare hike plan that’s being made public Wednesday, the MTA is presenting a second option that would make the MetroCards more expensive but keep them unlimited. The MTA will then judge the public’s reaction to the two ideas and choose one of the two plans.

MTA officials are planning to eliminate the unlimited one-day “Fun Pass,” saying that the tourist-friendly MetroCards have become too friendly for subway scammers.

New York City closed an underground water tunnel on Monday that's been used for the past 10 years to flush out the notorious Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. The closure is supposed to pay off in the long-term by allowing $135 million worth of improvements to take place, though it also introduces some short-term risks while the tunnel is out of operation.

Beginning Sunday, 38 bus routes will be cut entirely, while another 76 will run shorter routes or shorter hours. Off-peak subway service will be reduced on 11 subway lines starting Sunday, while two others will be eliminated as of Monday.

New York's highest court has ruled in favor of Columbia University's expansion plan over 17 acres in West Harlem, and the state's plan to seize private property in its footprint.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is appointing Robert Steel, a former Wall Street banker, as his deputy mayor for economic development, according to city officials.

The MTA is abandoning its plan to revoke free MetroCards for students to get to school.

A Manhattan judge has ruled that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) can not close subway token booths or fire more than 200 station agents without first holding public hearings.

New York University is planning a massive expansion that will unfold over the next 20 years.

Call on Port Authority and developer Larry Silverstein to speed up stalled rebuilding effort.

NJ Transit bus and rail riders could face a 30 percent fare hike as early as this May, according to union leaders.

Fewer construction workers died on the job in 2009 across the five boroughs compared to 2008, according to the city Buildings Department.

The MTA's chairman is resisting calls to use federal stimulus money to restore free student Metrocards and other service cuts planned for later this year.

The City Council has rejected a proposal to convert a former National Guard Armory in the Bronx into a shopping mall.