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A Jewish and interfaith coalition led by the American Jewish Committee is urging Congress to expand the Nonprofit Security Grant...
Starting July 1, 450,000 New Yorkers on the Essential Plan will lose coverage due to federal cuts, hitting Bushwick and...
NY Attorney General Letitia James won a federal lawsuit striking down the Trump administration's $100,000 H-1B visa fee, protecting 13,000...
An Adams ally identified as Mastro has joined opposition to a Mamdani administration intake shelter; the location and form of...
Heavy Knicks wagering during the NBA Finals pushed BetMGM's handle 21 percent above last year, flipping the book's outcome preference...
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani joined 1,000 runners at Fort Tryon Park for the 2K for 2-K event, launching NYC’s first...
NYC's Department of Buildings offered free no-penalty building inspections with expert guidance and no fines from June 1 to July...
New York City's FARE Act drew more than 2,000 complaints in its first year, with DCWP issuing 74 summonses and...
Protests continue at Delaney Hall detention center as ICE's 'worst of the worst' label for detainees is contradicted by federal...
NYC housing advocates and council members rallied June 5 to demand Mayor Mamdani fund the 2023 CityFHEPS voucher expansion still...
A federal judge ruled Trump policies halting asylum, work permit, and green card cases for applicants from 39 countries unlawful,...
Governor Kathy Hochul appointed Andrew Amer, who led the 2023 civil fraud prosecution of Donald Trump, to the New York...
NY AG Letitia James secured a federal injunction blocking Trump conditions on USDA grants, shielding $9.7 billion in annual New...
New York's Legislature passed the One Fair Price Act, banning surveillance pricing using personal data. The bill now awaits Governor...
NY's CREEP Act expanding anti-stalking protections to online victims and coworkers has passed the legislature June 5 and awaits Gov....
NY's Legislature passed a bill June 5 requiring all state shelters to provide net-neutral, privacy-respecting internet access, pending the Governor's...
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams testified before New York City Council's Committee on Hospitals at the FY 2027 Executive Budget Hearing...
The New York State Legislature passed the Tampons Aren't Contraband Act, banning prisons from denying visits to people carrying menstrual...
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 Assembly passed a revised media access bill for encrypted police radio statewide, but the NYPD is...
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...
New York's state legislature is approaching a vote on the Responsible Data Center Development Act, a one-year moratorium on data...
Bronx Defenders leaders Juval O. Scott and Samantha Espada are urging Mayor Mamdani to expand indigent legal services funding and...
The NAACP, its Legal Defense Fund, and Public Citizen filed a federal court motion June 4 to block a USPS...
Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation creating 50-foot security buffer zones around New York houses of worship, prohibiting protests near religious...
The Hispanic Federation says 88 percent of its registered Latino voters cast ballots in the 2020 election, 22 percentage points...
New York Attorney General Letitia James won an appellate ruling upholding a $4.35 million judgment and 10-year ban against former...
Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to nominate Alexander Dockery, whose sentence she commuted in 2023, to New York's Commission of...
Thirty House Democrats sent Postmaster General David Steiner a letter demanding answers on a USPS rule that could condition mail-in...
New York spent years banning gerrymandering in its constitution. Now Democrats want to erase those rules.
More than 100 NYC organizations rally at Tweed Courthouse urging City Council to sustain Mayor Mamdani's veto of Intro 175-B,...
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani will hold a press conference Friday at Brooklyn Public Library's Cortelyou branch to make a library-related...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a $124.7 billion budget closing a $12 billion deficit through new taxes on wealthy property owners...
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered remarks at the NYPD's Sikh Heritage Day celebration at Police Headquarters, marking Vaisakhi with Sikh...
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Council Speaker Julie Menin are urging Gov. Hochul to scale back a tax credit benefiting...