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Two workers on Wednesday received hundreds of thousands of dollars of pay they were unfairly denied while working on contract with the city.

State lawmakers on Wednesday announced the Fairness and Equity Act, which would decriminalize both public and private displays of the drug.

Supporters of the city's plan to create municipal ID cards lined up to speak at a hearing this afternoon that Mayor Bill de Blasio held in a somewhat unusual location - inside the City Council's chambers.

Federal lawmakers on Wednesday said they will not intervene if Long Island Rail Road workers go on strike later this month and comes as the MTA begins a communication blitz alerting riders of the possible service interruption.

Since selecting former Buffalo-area Congresswoman Kathy Hochul as his running mate, Governor Andrew Cuomo has done little campaigning with her, and perhaps trying to silence her critics, Hochul has agreed to an interview on NY1's Inside City Hall.

The opening of the city's new police academy has been postponed again as a new class of recruits was sworn in and will use older facilities. NY1 criminal justice reporter Dean Meminger spoke exclusively with the NYPD's head of training about the future of the academy and filed the following report.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams joined Inside City Hall to discuss the increase of shootings in his borough and an 11 day trip that he took to China that has raised some eyebrows.

A golden age of American musicals spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, but you won't know any of the songs. Now, a new book looks at the unique genre of Industrial Musicals.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's fight against trash and rodents has expanded again by giving riders on three lines fewer options on where to unload what's not wanted. Many riders aren't sold on platforms without trash cans, however.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations says that slurs have been spray-painted around the Kensington neighborhood.

NY1's Neil Rosen sits down Richard Linklater and Ellar Coltrane and Patricia Arquette, who are behind the monumental new drama "Boyhood," a film 12 years in the making.

One in three public schools were overcrowded in 2012, according to a new audit by the city comptroller.

Police are searching for a man who they say raped a woman in the Corona section of Queens.

There is friction between the Board of Corrections and the city's new Jails Commissioner over a recent decision to move dozens of mentally ill inmates at Rikers Island to solitary confinement.

Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka has been placed on the 15-day disabled list with right elbow inflammation and is headed back to New York for an MRI.

There are numerous factors that car insurers take into account when they determine your car insurance price, and while some are out of your control, some are within your power to change.

NY1's weekly segment "Your Weekend Starts Now" shows entertaining picks for great things to do this weekend all around the city.

You might be surprised to find that there are certain personal hygiene products that you are never supposed to share.

Coming up, in addition to books, how the New York Public Library is next working on lending out technology.

A dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony was held Wednesday at the new Lenox Hill HealthPlex which will offer emergency care services to the West Village neighborhood for the first time since Saint Vincent's Hospital closed in 2010.