Grand St. might just be the hippest, most exclusive New York startup we've ever seen. It's a curated, super-thoughtful, new gadget flash-sale site that's currently waiting-list-only for new customers — and it just closed a $1.3 million investment round.  The boutique offers new products to members every other day. But, if you want to grab a product you have to ...

The New York State Dream Act passed overwhelmingly in the Democratic-dominated Assembly, but the bill’s supporters acknowledged that its chances were slim in the Senate.    

Two bills have been introduced in the New York Legislature that would make the state the first in the nation to mandate the labeling of genetically modified food.    

The comic remembers 1950s New York and the friend who put a different spin on a Sinatra song—and on life.

After a video allegedly depicting Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine, he has finally spoken out on the allegations. “I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine,” Ford said at a news conference held at City Hall (May 24). “As for a video, I cannot comment on a video that I have never ...