Charles Lane

Three utility bill increases will take roughly $53 more a month from the average New Yorker's pocket.

The city Water Board said a budget maneuver by Mayor Eric Adams forced them to approve such a steep hike.

Janno Lieber still vowed moving forward “if and when” tolling is approved.

The Queens Zoo is showing off three baby bears and may license their naming rights to raise money.

Summertime and the cyclin' is easy.

Police say they solve 76% of murders in Brooklyn. The “clearance rate” for murders on Staten Island is closer to 100%.

Officials outlined tightened security after threats to the Cricket World Cup.

The famous Central Park raptor's wings and tissue samples are resting in the museum's frozen tissue specimen collection, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Upper West Side pickleballers donated new nets to the court that are now kept overnight in a locked metal box.

A four-year legal battle over the phone directory for the Nassau County Police Department shows the limits of New York’s Freedom of Information Law.

Citywide traffic deaths are 17% higher so far this year, according to advocates.

The end of federal pandemic aid sunk the state’s child poverty rates to their worst levels since 2016, reversing years of improvement according the State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office.