The New York City Education Department has failed to collect tens of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements for  special-needs students after the federal government made the documentation to receive the funds more onerous.

Central Park, once a no-go zone after dark, is now humming with people in the evening hours due to safety improvements.

A group of Muslim leaders plan to boycott Mayor Bloomberg's interfaith breakfast tomorrow to protest the NYPD's surveillance of Muslims.

Crime ticked up slightly last year, but Mayor Bloomberg used new state reporting requirements for crimes by strangulation to argue that crime actually decreased.

Chief mayoral advisor and music nerd Howard Wolfson released his top 10 albums of the year list.

The Post calls Christine Quinn "a serial aider-and-abetter of council chiselers and cheats" for giving Larry Seabrook and others member item money.

Cuomo has been spotted! He is in Lake Placid, with his daughters and his partner Sandra Lee.

How the Occupy movement can stay relevant in 2011.

State-worker unions filed a lawsuit against the Cuomo administration for  being hit with hikes in retiree health-care costs.

Next year, possession of bear gall bladders will be illegal in New York State.

About 65 percent of taxi riders don't buckle their seat belts, and the TLC is planning an outreach campaign to change that.

The Committee to Save New York is taking on Cuomo's casino gambling push.

Rick Santorum is surging as the Iowa Caucuses approach.