The West Village residents prefer smaller, local parks than the big Hudson River Park. They are concerned that the only fully developed park in their neighborhood is the Village part of the Hudson River Park, leaving little parks without adequate financial support.

A slime-slinging, name-calling campaign that may change the balance of power in the U.S. Senate has ended - now that Democrat Bob Menendez has been projected as the winner - and most voters are glad it’s over.

Lawyers at one New York City firm volunteer to make sure that every vote gets counted

Believe it or not, Charles Rangel has an opponent. Who has the guts to take on the Harlem behemoth? Answer: Edward M. Daniels.

New electronic voting machines are coming. But this election marks the last time ballot marking devices—designed to help people with disabilities to vote—will be used.

Allan Romaguera is a ghost Republican–out of touch with his constituents and nearly impossible to track down. Result: four tries, four defeats.

For Capitol Hill veterans there’s a corollary to the cliché about life’s certainties. One may count on three things: Death, taxes, and Charlie Rangel in Congress. Uncertain, however, is what Rep. Charles B. Rangel, a Democrat, will do to tax policy if the Republican’s majority dies and he rises to Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

The hot-button political issue is easy to see here: It comes in the form of the multi-million-dollar housing developments that are rising to dominate the neighborhood of Spanish bodegas, pint-sized soul food restaurants and dilapidated tenement buildings.