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This week the MTA outlined its financial plan for the next four years, which includes eliminating 2,700 jobs either through layoffs, attrition or just not filling vacancies in what Chairman Pat Foye calls “position reductions.”Those job cuts are expected to start in January, aided by the most recent hire for the newly created…

Critics of the $2 billion in ship and system deliveries to Mozambique a few years ago contend that they were too fancy and sophisticated for a developing country to handle. Defense attorneys for boat salesman Jean Boustani, on trial now in federal court in New York, disagree. And now they have evidence that the military attaches of major nations…

New Rochelle, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – Students walked out of class in New Rochelle Friday to show their support for a football coach who was reassigned just days before a big playoff game. Chopper 2 was over the football field Friday morning as students a giant letter D in honor of coach Lou DiRienzo. The Huguenots are undefeated and in the state…

A run-of-the-mill supervised release program was transformed into a viral hit last week. “Gift cards, cell phones and Mets tickets: How NYC spends $12M enticing criminals back to court,” blared the New York Post headline of one of three stories written in the span of a few days about this three-year-old program.“Little luxuries”…

Courtesy of Jamie Keenan DesignGrowing up, I felt as though I belonged to two families — the one I had before my father died, and the one that we became. Following my father’s death from a five-year battle with cancer, I created myths. He died when I was aged five, so I believed that my coming into the world somehow subtracted from his time on…