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New York spent years banning gerrymandering in its constitution. Now Democrats want to erase those rules.
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.
Con Edison wants credit for a record $3.9 billion grid upgrade in North Brooklyn. You are paying for it through...
Community Board 1 will hear the Brooklyn Public Library's progress report on rebuilding the Leonard branch in Williamsburg to be...
Under the K Bridge Park turned the Kosciuszko Bridge base into a top concert venue. It is a public park...
Gladys Books & Wine keeps flooding. Owner Tiffany Dockery's fundraiser is also a war chest to make her Malcolm X...
GrowNYC's Greenmarket network is 50. Behind the heirloom-tomato nostalgia, the real story is money: SNAP, EBT, and who can afford...
The State Liquor Authority gave the old Brooklyn Mirage address a new license as Pacha, stapled to conditions that read...
Rep. Nydia Velázquez brought a $1 million check for security lighting to Cooper Park Houses. Residents say the deeper repair...
The NYPD whistleblower who sued over arrest quotas now runs the city's eviction and seizure force.
In June 2026, incumbent Adriano Espaillat faces two progressive challengers—Darializa Avila Chevalier and Oscar Romero—in the NY-13 Democratic primary.
A feminist group show on Cypress Avenue is concrete proof Ridgewood's art scene, long treated as Bushwick's overflow, has become...
The city broke ground on a Greenpoint street redesign prosecutors say a powerful film-studio family paid to stall. Now it...
The tax aimed at billionaires barely dents Ken Griffin. It could put a lien on your co-op.
Mayor Mamdani's first city budget opened with a property-tax hike and a reserve raid. It balances only because Albany stepped...
Two commissions are fighting over your November ballot, and one of them is technically dead.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced his 'Block by Block' housing plan at Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus, pledging 200,000 affordable homes...
NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams is announcing a plan to address the digital divide and expand affordable internet access citywide,...
Hundreds of Greenpoint artists open studios this weekend as Brooklyn's spring arts season brings new gallery openings from Bushwick to...
The NYC Department of Small Business Services hosted its third-annual Small Business Month Expo at 60 Pine Street, with over...
Antonio Reynoso and Claire Valdez lead the Democratic primary race to succeed retiring Rep. Nydia Velázquez in NY-7, covering Bushwick...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order reaffirming NYC's sanctuary protections and launched a Know Your Rights campaign as ICE...
Fifty-five north Brooklyn businesses asked the MTA to spare their summer weekends. The chairman said no.
The fight was supposed to be about Mamdani skipping the parade. An uninvited minister changed the subject.
New York cut the fifth firefighter from most engines in 2011. With fire deaths nearly doubled, the Council wants $92...
Mayor Mamdani's first housing move wasn't his big plan. He moved against a 5,000-unit landlord within hours of taking office,...
2026's first subway-surfing death, and the MTA says the real problem is a video that won't come down.
Brooklyn BP Antonio Reynoso rolled out a six-page Puerto Rico platform in his run for Congress. He is Dominican, not...
ICE pulled a handcuffed man from the ER at Wyckoff Heights in Bushwick. The lawmaker who represents the hospital and...
The Supreme Court gutted a key part of the Voting Rights Act. It just changed New York's redistricting fight.
Bushwick ranks as NYC's best neighborhood for homebuyers in 2026 with a $999,000 median asking price down 16.3% and inventory...
New York's class-size law required 6,000 new teachers. The city is meeting it with exemptions, a delay, and a budget...
New York mandated how every school teaches reading and math, then claimed a test-score win experts say it can't yet...
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso committed $20,000 to rescue the Coney Island Mermaid Parade while rolling out a Puerto Rico...
More than 100 NYC organizations rally at Tweed Courthouse urging City Council to sustain Mayor Mamdani's veto of Intro 175-B,...
Faith leaders launched the Black Homeowners Agenda at a Bedford-Stuyvesant church to defend NYC's short-term rental rules and protect Black...
A coalition of 30+ groups including the New York Mets is pressing Governor Hochul and Mayor Mamdani to restore weekend...
The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, vetoed by Eric Adams on his last day, returned with a veto-proof City Council...
Three towers, the tallest 600 feet, are coming to Greenpoint's waterfront. Council Member Restler is using his veto to wring...
Cannabis lifestyle festival MARY Fest shifts from April 20 to June 19 for its 2026 Brooklyn edition at 99 Scott...
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani announced The Peninsula in the Bronx as the city's second public grocery store location, then met...
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani announced NYC will add 2,000 new 3-K seats across all five boroughs, doubling an earlier expansion...
3,500 workers shut down the nation's busiest railroad. They walked away with raises and a $3,000 check.
New York added 2,000 free preschool seats and called it universal. Last year 1 in 5 free seats sat empty.
Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed the NYC-DSA slate, including Bushwick Assembly candidate Christian Celeste Tate, ahead of the June 2026 primary.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani will hold a press conference Friday at Brooklyn Public Library's Cortelyou branch to make a library-related...
Bushwick's Community Board 4 examined a proposed men's shelter, 18-unit Melrose Street development, and MTA transit updates during busy spring...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a $124.7 billion budget closing a $12 billion deficit through new taxes on wealthy property owners...
Mamdani's plan to build 200,000 affordable homes has a catch: half are not for the lowest incomes.