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The last round of winners of college scholarships in the state's 'Get A Shot to Make Your Future' COVID vaccine incentive was announced Wednesday.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams surpassed the 50% threshold in an unofficial tally on Tuesday after ranked choice votes began to be counted. But the tally doesn't include more than 100,000 absentee ballots, so the race is far from over.

In "Stories to Tell," singer-songwriter Richard Marx shares anecdotes about the music royalty he's rubbed shoulders with: Kenny Rogers, Whitney Houston, Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Burt Bacharach, NSync, Julio Iglesias, Josh Groban, Hugh Jackman, Kenny Loggins and Luther Vandross.

Gov. Phil Murphy signed a record $46.4 billion budget on Tuesday, sending out checks of up to $500 to 760,000 families, making an almost $7 billion pension payment and boosting overall spending by 15% over last year.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg toured the century-old rail tunnel connecting New York and New Jersey Monday as a long-delayed project to build a new tunnel gains steam.

Lawyers for the Trump Organization met again Monday with prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in a last bid to forestall a potential indictment stemming from a long-running investigation into the former president’s company.

At a rally for former President Donald Trump, Greene had referred to Ocasio-Cortez as “the little communist from New York City," and said she was “not an American.”

With the lifting of New York's state of emergency, the popular alcohol-to-go provision is ending, disappointing restaurants and customers.

The program is an $8.3B effort by the city to construct four new, smaller, more humane jails in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens to replace Rikers Island.

Some of the Democrat's most reliable political contributors — including unions, wealthy executives and Democratic Party officials — say they still plan to give money to his expected campaign for a fourth term in office.