Francesca Trianni

Reuters — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg made fighting crime a hallmark of his time in office. Now Bloomberg, relegated to the sidelines of November's mayoral election as he completes his final 4-year term as mayor, has undertaken a campaign of pressuring city council members to reverse their votes on police oversight and racial profiling.

Reuters — While fellow candidate Anthony Weiner's extramarital sexual transgressions have dominated the headlines, a perplexing reality of the race for mayor of the nation's largest city is Christine Quinn's failure to lock up the votes of women and gays, even though she herself is both.

Reuters — Credit: Reuters/Eric Thayer 1 of 4. Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer (C) delivers signatures to the board of elections office in New York July 11, 2013. Eyeing a comeback five years after he resigned from office in a prostitution scandal, Spitzer arrived at the New York Board of Elections office carrying four boxes of petitions, with about an hour to go before the midnight deadline. "It's important to those who said it was not possible in the course of three and a half days to gather enough signatures to get a candidate on the ballot for citywide office," Spitzer, who announced his candidacy on Sunday, told a crowd of reporters.

Reuters — spokeswoman for scandal-ridden New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner said on Wednesday she would remain in her job despite a political news website's publication of profane comments she made about a former campaign intern. The remarks were the latest hiccup for former Democratic U.S. Rep. Weiner as he tries to resurrect his political career after resigning from Congress two years ago over lewd pictures he sent of himself on Twitter.

Reuters — The New York City Council passed two measures to restrain police powers early on Thursday in direct defiance of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has defended procedures such as "stop and frisk" as necessary to fight crime.

Reuters — By Edith Honan and Francesca Trianni. A Quinnipiac University poll showed the former congressman, who once held first place in the race, with just 16 percent of likely Democratic primary voters, behind City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who leads with 27 percent, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who has 21 percent, and former Comptroller William Thompson, with 20 percent.

Reuters — New York City mayor says fingerprints should be used to access public housing.