Growing tired of the inertia in collective bargaining talks between Cablevision and the company’s Brooklyn employees, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer stood with workers outside of Madison Square Garden to demand that Cablevision negotiate in good faith and reinstate a group of workers who were dismissed a week ago. Last week,  Quinn and de Blasio–both Democratic candidates for mayor–ventured deep into Brooklyn to stand with 23 Brooklyn Cablevision workers… [More]

Elected officials and advocates wasted little time celebrating President Barack Obama’s re-election. That’s because come Jan. 1, Congress could drive the country over the “fiscal cliff” and cut $800 million in federal programs and services. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, along with Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney, released a citywide impact report on the fiscal cliff detailing which programs would be cut and by how much. “We would lose, in this country, a billion dollars in cuts to FEMA… [More]

At forum on minority- and women-owned businesses, mayor, mayoral candidates talk strategy City & State presented a day-long program this week entitled “The New Agenda” on the topic of minority- and women-owned businesses, with Mayor Michael Bloomberg giving a keynote address to kick off the forum. The event at New York University’s Kimmel Center, which was sponsored by AlliedBarton Security Services, concluded with the first roundtable to feature all six of the 2013 New York City mayoral candidates, discussing the… [More]

Environmental advocates look to a New York City without Bloomberg Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has a reputation as one of the country’s most environmentally friendly mayors, is pressing ahead with initiatives to clean New York City’s air, use greener energy and raise the city’s lackluster recycling rate. But with fewer than two years left in office, the administration’s continued success may depend in large part on the next mayor—and some observers are fretting that the pool of candidates to replace… [More]