Browse all posts published in 2026.
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NYC teachers and parents rallied in Lower Manhattan on June 4, demanding the DOE create protocols for ICE encounters after...
NYC's Independent Budget Office estimates making all city buses free could cost $1.1 billion annually, well above prior projections of...
Antonio Reynoso, Claire Valdez, and Julie Won debated on NY1 for the 7th Congressional District, agreeing on most policy but...
The United Federation of Teachers reluctantly accepts a two-year extension of NYC's class size mandate, citing the need for more...
Eva Santos Veloz lost her job and legal protection after her DACA renewal stalled for 143 days, highlighting systemic delays...
Ex-NYPD chief Jeffrey Maddrey, who resigned amid sex-for-overtime allegations, is suing New York City for cutting off his taxpayer-funded legal...
AI and crypto super PAC money dominated the PIX 11 debate for New York's 12th Congressional District, as three candidates...
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicly clashed over the mayor's Trump White House visits at a...
Local Law 132, effective March 2026, requires NYC to count jail and prison time toward supportive housing eligibility for formerly...
NYC Council members and advocates are calling on Mayor Mamdani to budget $87M for diversion and reentry programs to meet...
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams testified before New York City Council's Committee on Hospitals at the FY 2027 Executive Budget Hearing...
Siegel Street in Bushwick will close to through traffic Saturdays and Sundays, June 6–14, from 3 a.m. to 11 p.m....
City Council Member Julie Won, Assemblymember Claire Valdez, and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso clashed over Gaza and super PAC...
New York's state legislature is approaching a vote on the Responsible Data Center Development Act, a one-year moratorium on data...
The NAACP, its Legal Defense Fund, and Public Citizen filed a federal court motion June 4 to block a USPS...
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso is running in the June 23 NY-7 Democratic primary on housing, ICE abolition, and a...
NYC Council members pushed for a $150 property tax rebate, Homeowner Help Desk expansion, and heat pump grants in the...
NYC Parks and Council Member Restler cut a ribbon on Bushwick Inlet Park's $9.8 million Motiva section, a restored tidal...
Grace Meng's May 19 telephone town hall in NY-6 drew criticism from constituents who say their questions on ICE, Gaza,...
On the NY1 debate stage, Democratic socialist Assemblywoman Claire Valdez reversed her pledge to reject superPAC money, saying her campaign...
New York City offers free legal help, navigators and courses for small businesses. Most owners never learn they exist until...
NYC launched Gun Violence Awareness Month at Restoration Plaza, run by a brand-new, roughly five-person community-safety office with no NYPD...
ACS touted recommended awards for 11 Community Partnerships. The Bushwick one re-ups the group already doing the job and doesn't...
Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation creating 50-foot security buffer zones around New York houses of worship, prohibiting protests near religious...
More than 50,000 people marched in NYC's Israel Day Parade on June 1, as Mayor Mamdani boycotted and a Muslim...
New York City immigration judges are handling over 100 cases per day under new 'mega master' hearings, raising concerns about...
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso debated on NY1 for NY's 7th Congressional seat, drawing on a decade of progressive wins...
Nearly 1,400 Jewish New Yorkers, including 76 spiritual leaders, sent an open letter demanding Mayor Zohran Mamdani take concrete action...
The Hispanic Federation says 88 percent of its registered Latino voters cast ballots in the 2020 election, 22 percentage points...
NYC early voting runs June 13–21 ahead of the June 23 Democratic primary, with Rep. Grace Meng facing DSA-backed challenger...
The New York State Assembly passed a bill to freeze ground rent increases for lower and middle income Battery Park...
Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to nominate Alexander Dockery, whose sentence she commuted in 2023, to New York's Commission of...
New York Attorney General Letitia James won an appellate ruling upholding a $4.35 million judgment and 10-year ban against former...
NYC Parks opened the Motiva parcel at Bushwick Inlet Park on June 3, adding tidal wetlands, a sandy beach, and...
NYC DOT is scaling up privacy-protective street sensors to 100 intersections, out of 6,000 miles of streets, for about $300,000....
Mamdani picked a street-redesign legend for the MTA board. He controls 4 of its 17 votes.
Cameras keep catching small groups descending into New York's sewers around 2 a.m. No one can say who they are...
Thirty House Democrats sent Postmaster General David Steiner a letter demanding answers on a USPS rule that could condition mail-in...
Five historic tall ships from four countries dock at Brooklyn Bridge Park July 5–7 as New York Harbor hosts the...
The city pitches the Atlantic Avenue plan as 100 percent affordable. Sixteen Bed-Stuy neighbors say it skipped the review every...
QNS's Ridgewood Pride guide maps a queer scene that runs through a black-metal record shop, a pierogi spot, and a...
Con Edison wants credit for a record $3.9 billion grid upgrade in North Brooklyn. You are paying for it through...
Rose Marie on Lorimer Street closes June 13. The spot replacing it is the same owners quietly admitting their Southern-inspired...
Under the K Bridge Park turned the Kosciuszko Bridge base into a top concert venue. It is a public park...
The state says its school phone ban is working. The evidence is a survey of the people who enforce it.
A Brooklyn campaign wants cars out of McCarren Park for good. The rally was the easy part.
New York spent years banning gerrymandering in its constitution. Now Democrats want to erase those rules.
Community Board 1 will hear the Brooklyn Public Library's progress report on rebuilding the Leonard branch in Williamsburg to be...
In June 2026, incumbent Adriano Espaillat faces two progressive challengers—Darializa Avila Chevalier and Oscar Romero—in the NY-13 Democratic primary.
The NYPD whistleblower who sued over arrest quotas now runs the city's eviction and seizure force.