All Borough News

NY1 takes a look at what's in today's New York City newspapers.

Police have caught a 25-year-old man who they say carjacked a driver at gunpoint on Staten Island over the weekend.

Bob Hardt's daily look "Inside City Hall."

John Schiumo hosts the July 8, 2014 episode of The Call.

Lawsuits against the city now cost taxpayers close to $700 million a year, and that number is rising, but City Comptroller Scott Stringer says that trend can be reversed, and he says he has the data to prove it.

A wake was held on Staten Island Tuesday for 40-year-old Gordon Matthew Ambelas, who died trying to save others from flames in a public housing high-rise in Brooklyn over the weekend.

The Department of Correction honored its oldest employee by naming the Rikers Island commissary after him at a ceremony Tuesday.

The 20-year-old mother of a baby girl left alone on a Manhattan subway platform Monday is being held without bail after being questioned by investigators, who say she could no longer take care of the child.

League of United Latin American Citizens Director of Policy and Legislation Luis Torres joined Inside City Hall to preview the organization's 85th annual National Convention and its focus on immigration reform.

Inside City Hall's Errol Louis asked the NY1 Wiseguys - former Senator Alfonse D'Amato, former Rep. and City Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman and former Rep. Anthony Weiner - if Governor Andrew Cuomo's running mate, Kathy Hochul, is intentionally being kept out of the public eye.

Democratic candidate for Congress Domenic Recchia joined Inside City Hall to talk about his plans to unseat indicted Rep. Michael Grimm.

Wagner College on Staten Island was the only local school selected to be part of a State Department program designed to connect African leaders with universities in the United States for hands on learning, and on Tuesday, the fellows visited one of the borough's most successful not-for-profits.

The heat wave has tempers flaring over the treatment of horses, as a carriage driver accused of working her animal in the hot weather says she's now being threatened with violence, even as she claims she did nothing wrong.

In an effort to address rising violence in the city's public housing projects, Mayor de Blasio on Tuesday announced new safety initiatives which will include additional police officers, light towers and extended community center hours. | Some Public Housing Residents Optimistic About Additional Security Measures | Read New Yorkers' thoughts.

Contract talks resumed Tuesday between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Long Island Rail Road unions, but the two sides could not come to an agreement.

State Senate co-leader Jeff Klein and Queens state Senator Tony Avella, two breakaway Democrats, got the backing of the mayor in their primary elections after they agreed to end their arrangement with Republicans for control of the state Senate.

As officers plan to flood violent housing developments across the city, residents assess the impact it will have on their communities.

Seven years ago, the Bloomberg administration started to give City Hall a facelift, and while that project is still going on and has more than doubled in cost, the new team in City Hall says the makeover is in its final phase.

The schools chancellor has told most of the city's school district superintendents they will have to reapply for their jobs, part of the new administration's policy to hire education leaders with more experience in schools.

NY1 wraps up the day on Wall Street from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.