Koch in 1963, when he was Democratic Party district leader of Greenwich Village This past summer, Edward I. Koch, a Democrat, made headlines by noisily endorsing Republican Bob Turner in a special election to fill the congressional seat of disgraced Twee

Courtesy of the mayors office “Good morning. I want to thank our committee chairmen, Denny Farrell and John DeFrancisco; the ranking minority members of the committees holding this hearing, Assemblyman Robert Oaks and Senator Liz Krueger; and all the mem

The governor's proposed budget once again includes zero "Aid and Incentives to Municipalities" for the city. During testimony this morning before the state legislature, Mayor Michael Bloomberg placed the blame for that squarely on legislators from distri

Testifying before the State Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee and the State Senate’s Finance Committee, Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared his “strong support” for many elements of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive budget and presented very few criticism

The Associated Press An April, 1998 file photo of Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden was killed May 2, 2011 during a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs in Pakistan.AP ATLANTA — They lived by the sword, both inspiring fear and acts of bloodshed around the world. And in the

BERNARD McGHEE, Associated Press | FILE - In this Nov. 24, 1965 file photo, Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, gives a news conference said in that the Anti-Poverty Program has been effective in its first year in operation i