The new law requires school districts and public agencies to wait a year before hiring a retired worker into the same or similar position.

Lawmakers said a new agreement could lead to the re-evaluation of disability payments awarded to hundreds of retired Long Island Rail Road workers.

The attorney general has sent subpoenas to officials at the Long Island Rail Road and the Railroad Retirement Board as part of an investigation into questionable disability payments.

The subpoenas begin “an aggressive and expeditious investigation into troubling allegations of wrongdoing,” said Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday.

Every Monday and Friday, members of an informal group called Retired Old Men Eating Out gather at the Silver Star Restaurant on the Upper East Side to discuss politics.

Every Monday and Friday, members of an informal group called Retired Old Men Eating Out gather at the Silver Star Restaurant on the Upper East Side to discuss politics.

Senator Joseph L. Bruno is likely to get a significant raise from New York State by retiring.

Senator Joseph L. Bruno, who led the State Senate for 14 years, is likely to get a significant raise from New York State by retiring.

Senator Joseph L. Bruno, who led the State Senate for 14 years, is likely to get a significant raise from New York State by retiring.

For 31 years, on the second Saturday in June, dozens of men and women who lived in the Van Cortlandt Village section of the Bronx in the 1940s and 1950s play stickball at their old school, P.S. 95.