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Ex-NYPD chief Jeffrey Maddrey, who resigned amid sex-for-overtime allegations, is suing New York City for cutting off his taxpayer-funded legal...
The New York State Legislature passed the Tampons Aren't Contraband Act, banning prisons from denying visits to people carrying menstrual...
Tenants and landlords testified at the NYC Rent Guidelines Board's first Queens hearing on June 4, debating a potential freeze...
City Council Member Julie Won, Assemblymember Claire Valdez, and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso clashed over Gaza and super PAC...
The United Federation of Teachers reluctantly accepts a two-year extension of NYC's class size mandate, citing the need for more...
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso is demanding a new SNAP Fraud Office and chip-enabled EBT cards to halt widespread skimming...
New York's state legislature is approaching a vote on the Responsible Data Center Development Act, a one-year moratorium on data...
NYC Council members and advocates are calling on Mayor Mamdani to budget $87M for diversion and reentry programs to meet...
The New York State Assembly passed a revised media access bill for encrypted police radio statewide, but the NYPD is...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has endorsed DSA challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier in NY-13, breaking a reported deal to back Rep. Adriano...
The NAACP, its Legal Defense Fund, and Public Citizen filed a federal court motion June 4 to block a USPS...
Local Law 132, effective March 2026, requires NYC to count jail and prison time toward supportive housing eligibility for formerly...
Brooklyn State Senator Jabari Brisport delivered a Pride Month speech on the NY Senate floor, honoring queer history and condemning...
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicly clashed over the mayor's Trump White House visits at a...
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...
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso is running in the June 23 NY-7 Democratic primary on housing, ICE abolition, and a...
NY Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is blocking a floor vote on the plastics bill for the third year and pushing...
Rep. Adriano Espaillat and challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier clashed on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show over ICE and campaign money in...
Antonio Reynoso, Claire Valdez, and Julie Won debated on NY1 for the 7th Congressional District, agreeing on most policy but...
NYC Council members pushed for a $150 property tax rebate, Homeowner Help Desk expansion, and heat pump grants in the...
A Queens lawmaker and a Brooklyn housing organizer are backing a New York bill to close the champerty loophole that...
Siegel Street in Bushwick will close to through traffic Saturdays and Sundays, June 6–14, from 3 a.m. to 11 p.m....
The Let New York Vote coalition pushed six voting rights bills in New York's June legislative session, citing new legal...
A bipartisan New York bill requiring all childcare centers to stock epinephrine and train staff in allergy response now heads...
Bronx Defenders leaders Juval O. Scott and Samantha Espada are urging Mayor Mamdani to expand indigent legal services funding and...
Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation creating 50-foot security buffer zones around New York houses of worship, prohibiting protests near religious...
Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to nominate Alexander Dockery, whose sentence she commuted in 2023, to New York's Commission of...
The Hispanic Federation says 88 percent of its registered Latino voters cast ballots in the 2020 election, 22 percentage points...
On the NY1 debate stage, Democratic socialist Assemblywoman Claire Valdez reversed her pledge to reject superPAC money, saying her campaign...
Grace Meng's May 19 telephone town hall in NY-6 drew criticism from constituents who say their questions on ICE, Gaza,...
New York City immigration judges are handling over 100 cases per day under new 'mega master' hearings, raising concerns about...
The New York State Assembly passed a bill to freeze ground rent increases for lower and middle income Battery Park...
More than 50,000 people marched in NYC's Israel Day Parade on June 1, as Mayor Mamdani boycotted and a Muslim...
New York Attorney General Letitia James won an appellate ruling upholding a $4.35 million judgment and 10-year ban against former...
NYC Parks and Council Member Restler cut a ribbon on Bushwick Inlet Park's $9.8 million Motiva section, a restored tidal...
New York City offers free legal help, navigators and courses for small businesses. Most owners never learn they exist until...
ACS touted recommended awards for 11 Community Partnerships. The Bushwick one re-ups the group already doing the job and doesn't...
NYC launched Gun Violence Awareness Month at Restoration Plaza, run by a brand-new, roughly five-person community-safety office with no NYPD...
NYC early voting runs June 13–21 ahead of the June 23 Democratic primary, with Rep. Grace Meng facing DSA-backed challenger...
NYC Parks opened the Motiva parcel at Bushwick Inlet Park on June 3, adding tidal wetlands, a sandy beach, and...
Nearly 1,400 Jewish New Yorkers, including 76 spiritual leaders, sent an open letter demanding Mayor Zohran Mamdani take concrete action...
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso debated on NY1 for NY's 7th Congressional seat, drawing on a decade of progressive wins...
Thirty House Democrats sent Postmaster General David Steiner a letter demanding answers on a USPS rule that could condition mail-in...
QNS's Ridgewood Pride guide maps a queer scene that runs through a black-metal record shop, a pierogi spot, and a...
The city pitches the Atlantic Avenue plan as 100 percent affordable. Sixteen Bed-Stuy neighbors say it skipped the review every...
NYC DOT is scaling up privacy-protective street sensors to 100 intersections, out of 6,000 miles of streets, for about $300,000....
Cameras keep catching small groups descending into New York's sewers around 2 a.m. No one can say who they are...
Mamdani picked a street-redesign legend for the MTA board. He controls 4 of its 17 votes.
Five historic tall ships from four countries dock at Brooklyn Bridge Park July 5–7 as New York Harbor hosts the...