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The lawyer who prosecuted Trump for fraud just got a judgeship from Hochul
Governor Kathy Hochul appointed Andrew Amer, who led the 2023 civil fraud prosecution of Donald Trump, to the New York...
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Albany ended its session without protecting 450,000 New Yorkers from losing their health insurance on July 1, even though the money was sitting right there
New York's legislature passed a watered-down data center moratorium, while bills protecting Essential Plan health coverage and reducing packaging both...
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State legislature passes bill to lock in two-person subway crews
New York lawmakers passed a bill protecting roughly 3,600 subway conductors by requiring two-person crews, which now heads to Gov....
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Advocates urge Mamdani administration to fund 2023 CityFHEPS voucher expansion
NYC housing advocates and council members rallied June 5 to demand Mayor Mamdani fund the 2023 CityFHEPS voucher expansion still...
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Tribeca native Morris Katz leads Mamdani’s mayoral media strategy
Morris Katz, 26, a Tribeca native living in Williamsburg, led media strategy for Zohran Mamdani, who became the youngest New...
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New York just voted to put gigabit internet in every homeless shelter, and to ban surveillance of the people living there
NY's Legislature passed a bill June 5 requiring all state shelters to provide net-neutral, privacy-respecting internet access, pending the Governor's...
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NYC has lost almost 200,000 Black residents in two decades, many to the South. Then the Supreme Court gutted their vote there.
Bushwick Council Member Sandy Nurse led a Black voting rights rally at Federal Plaza following the Supreme Court's ruling weakening...
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New York just passed the Tampons Aren’t Contraband Act after prisons forced visitors to pull out their tampons or be turned away
The New York State Legislature passed the Tampons Aren't Contraband Act, banning prisons from denying visits to people carrying menstrual...
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A rent freeze is officially on the table, and Mamdani picked the board that decides on June 25
Tenants and landlords testified at the NYC Rent Guidelines Board's first Queens hearing on June 4, debating a potential freeze...
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Thieves are draining food stamps off Brooklyn families, the reimbursement program is dead, and the cards that let them won’t be replaced until 2027
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso is demanding a new SNAP Fraud Office and chip-enabled EBT cards to halt widespread skimming...
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Mamdani endorses Espaillat’s DSA challenger in NY-13 primary
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has endorsed DSA challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier in NY-13, breaking a reported deal to back Rep. Adriano...
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Bronx Defenders leaders urge Mamdani to expand indigent legal services funding
Bronx Defenders leaders Juval O. Scott and Samantha Espada are urging Mayor Mamdani to expand indigent legal services funding and...
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A 3-year-old died of a dairy allergy at his NY daycare, now a bill would finally make centers stock epinephrine
A bipartisan New York bill requiring all childcare centers to stock epinephrine and train staff in allergy response now heads...
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Let New York Vote coalition urged Albany to pass six voting rights bills before session’s end
The Let New York Vote coalition pushed six voting rights bills in New York's June legislative session, citing new legal...
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Queens lawmaker backs bill to close New York’s ‘champerty loophole’ used by vulture funds
A Queens lawmaker and a Brooklyn housing organizer are backing a New York bill to close the champerty loophole that...
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Heastie says he’s a yes on the plastics bill, the votes are there, and for a third year he killed it without a vote
NY Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is blocking a floor vote on the plastics bill for the third year and pushing...
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NYC teachers demand DOE safety protocols after alleged ICE sightings near schools
NYC teachers and parents rallied in Lower Manhattan on June 4, demanding the DOE create protocols for ICE encounters after...
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Sen. Brisport honors queer activists and condemns anti-LGBTQIA+ oppression in Pride Month floor speech
Brooklyn State Senator Jabari Brisport delivered a Pride Month speech on the NY Senate floor, honoring queer history and condemning...
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New York Assembly passes revised bill for media access to encrypted police radio, excluding the NYPD
The New York State Assembly passed a revised media access bill for encrypted police radio statewide, but the NYPD is...
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The city’s own number-crunchers just put a $1.1 billion price tag on free NYC buses, $400 million above what anyone was saying out loud
NYC's Independent Budget Office estimates making all city buses free could cost $1.1 billion annually, well above prior projections of...
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Espaillat and Avila Chevalier clash over ICE and campaign money in NY-13 primary debate
Rep. Adriano Espaillat and challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier clashed on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show over ICE and campaign money in...
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Reynoso put all $45 million of his first-year capital budget into maternal care, citing Black women’s 8x higher death rate
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso is running in the June 23 NY-7 Democratic primary on housing, ICE abolition, and a...
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The teachers union didn’t want this delay, but it’s taking it anyway: “We did not want an extension – we want compliance”
The United Federation of Teachers reluctantly accepts a two-year extension of NYC's class size mandate, citing the need for more...
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Her DACA renewal is 143 days late. She lost her job, her permit, and her legal shield from deportation
Eva Santos Veloz lost her job and legal protection after her DACA renewal stalled for 143 days, highlighting systemic delays...
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Ex-NYPD chief Jeffrey Maddrey sues New York City over cutoff of his legal defense
Ex-NYPD chief Jeffrey Maddrey, who resigned amid sex-for-overtime allegations, is suing New York City for cutting off his taxpayer-funded legal...
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AI and crypto industry ties dominate NY-12 Democratic primary debate
AI and crypto super PAC money dominated the PIX 11 debate for New York's 12th Congressional District, as three candidates...
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Reynoso says Mamdani shouldn’t meet Trump. Mamdani says that meeting got a detained Columbia student out of ICE custody
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicly clashed over the mayor's Trump White House visits at a...
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For years, going to jail erased your spot in line for NYC housing. A new law just stopped that.
Local Law 132, effective March 2026, requires NYC to count jail and prison time toward supportive housing eligibility for formerly...
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Rikers must legally close by 2027, but its replacement jails aren’t done until the 2030s
NYC Council members and advocates are calling on Mayor Mamdani to budget $87M for diversion and reentry programs to meet...
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Jumaane Williams was set to testify on NYC’s $622 million hospital budget gap, but what he said isn’t on the record
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams testified before New York City Council's Committee on Hospitals at the FY 2027 Executive Budget Hearing...
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Reynoso, Valdez and Won show few policy differences in NY1 congressional debate
Antonio Reynoso, Claire Valdez, and Julie Won debated on NY1 for the 7th Congressional District, agreeing on most policy but...
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A Bushwick block shuts down both weekends to raise a crane for a six-soundstage film studio, twice the size of Netflix’s
Siegel Street in Bushwick will close to through traffic Saturdays and Sundays, June 6–14, from 3 a.m. to 11 p.m....
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NY-7 candidates clash on Gaza and super PAC money in first televised debate
City Council Member Julie Won, Assemblymember Claire Valdez, and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso clashed over Gaza and super PAC...
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New York just voted to freeze new AI data centers for a year. Hochul says it should be left to your town instead
New York's state legislature is approaching a vote on the Responsible Data Center Development Act, a one-year moratorium on data...
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NAACP files motion to block USPS rule that could stop mail-in ballot delivery
The NAACP, its Legal Defense Fund, and Public Citizen filed a federal court motion June 4 to block a USPS...
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City Council pushes $150 homeowner tax rebate, heat pump grants in FY2027 budget
NYC Council members pushed for a $150 property tax rebate, Homeowner Help Desk expansion, and heat pump grants in the...
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50,000 marched in the Israel Day Parade and brought cardboard cutouts of the mayor who skipped it
More than 50,000 people marched in NYC's Israel Day Parade on June 1, as Mayor Mamdani boycotted and a Muslim...
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Mamdani used his first veto to block a protest-buffer bill on free-speech grounds. Hochul slid a statewide version into the budget and never told him.
Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation creating 50-foot security buffer zones around New York houses of worship, prohibiting protests near religious...
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Meng’s phone town hall read just 11 questions, and constituents say theirs got buried or rewritten
Grace Meng's May 19 telephone town hall in NY-6 drew criticism from constituents who say their questions on ICE, Gaza,...
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Claire Valdez reversed her pledge to reject PAC money at the NY-7 debate
On the NY1 debate stage, Democratic socialist Assemblywoman Claire Valdez reversed her pledge to reject superPAC money, saying her campaign...
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New York City has a pile of free help for small businesses. Most owners find out it exists too late
New York City offers free legal help, navigators and courses for small businesses. Most owners never learn they exist until...
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NYC launched Gun Violence Awareness Month in Bed-Stuy, run by a brand-new community-safety office of about five people with no deal with the NYPD yet
NYC launched Gun Violence Awareness Month at Restoration Plaza, run by a brand-new, roughly five-person community-safety office with no NYPD...
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A NYC judge called her 121-case day ‘some fun new adventure,’ then ordered nearly 40 people deported for not showing up
New York City immigration judges are handling over 100 cases per day under new 'mega master' hearings, raising concerns about...
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The NRA’s longtime boss tried to escape his $4.35 million bill for lavish perks, the court said no
New York Attorney General Letitia James won an appellate ruling upholding a $4.35 million judgment and 10-year ban against former...
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An oil refiner’s old Bushwick Inlet parcel is finally a public beach with a kayak launch, 21 years after the city promised the park
NYC Parks opened the Motiva parcel at Bushwick Inlet Park on June 3, adding tidal wetlands, a sandy beach, and...
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He spent 23 years in New York prisons. The state Senate just confirmed him to oversee them, and a Republican said Hochul handed him the keys
Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to nominate Alexander Dockery, whose sentence she commuted in 2023, to New York's Commission of...
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State Assembly passes bill to freeze ground rent increases for eligible Battery Park City residents
The New York State Assembly passed a bill to freeze ground rent increases for lower and middle income Battery Park...
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A pro-Meng op-ed wants a landslide in Queens, to scare off DSA challengers for good
NYC early voting runs June 13–21 ahead of the June 23 Democratic primary, with Rep. Grace Meng facing DSA-backed challenger...
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Hispanic Federation says 88 percent of the Latino voters it registered turned out in 2020
The Hispanic Federation says 88 percent of its registered Latino voters cast ballots in the 2020 election, 22 percentage points...
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Nearly 1,400 Jewish New Yorkers want Mamdani to act after Jews were 60% of April hate crimes
Nearly 1,400 Jewish New Yorkers, including 76 spiritual leaders, sent an open letter demanding Mayor Zohran Mamdani take concrete action...