MTA to start enforcing $50 mask fines
MTA to start enforcing $50 mask fines
The penalty was put in place last year, but officials now say they plan to ramp up enforcement.
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This Week's Headline
Trouble at Rikers continues and Zucker resigns
Rounding up the week’s political news.
News & Politics
Hochul says she is open to decriminalizing sex work
Advocates for two competing bills are vying for the new governor’s attention on the controversial issue.
News & Politics
Food delivery workers won new protections in New York City. Can the state keep up?
The historic legislation guaranteed ride-hailing drivers and delivery workers minimum pay, but statewide reforms are harder to come by.
News & Politics
NYC progressives fundraise for India Walton
Three upcoming events aim to help the Buffalo Democratic mayoral candidate build up her warchest.
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Policy
Redistricting is on the ballot again in November. Here’s what voters will be considering.
A ballot amendment would change the state constitution and tweak the redistricting process.
Ask the Experts
New York City is weighing a major expansion of voting rights. Here’s what you need to know.
Roughly 900,000 immigrants would be allowed to vote in municipal elections under a bill being considered in the City Council, but the mayor’s office doesn’t yet back it.
Policy
Hundreds of bills await Hochul’s signature. Here are 10 that will help define her leadership early on.
Which bills the new governor approves – and which she vetoes – will tell us how serious she is about climate change, government transparency and more.
Policy
The Buffalo Bills owners want a new stadium, and taxpayers might help them pay for it
The NFL team is a Western New York treasure, and critics say the owners are exploiting that to help pay for the $1.4 billion project.
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Winners & Losers
This week’s biggest Winners & Losers
Who’s up and who’s down this week
Personality
Brooklyn Kindergarten Society welcomes students back to school
Melisha Jackman, the nonprofit’s executive director, discusses the first week of school and how they weathered the pandemic.
Interviews & Profiles
Taxi drivers call for debt relief at City Hall protest
A medallion owner said the city’s current plan isn’t enough to help drivers like him out of underwater loans.
Interviews & Profiles
Karines Reyes on powering up the NY Hero Act
In a Q&A, the Assembly member talked about how much easier it’s been to work with Gov. Kathy Hochul.
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Power 100
The Western New York Power 100
The movers and shakers in Buffalo, Rochester and the surrounding region.
Power List
The Agriculture Power 50
The New Yorkers cultivating the state’s thriving farming and agricultural sectors.
Power List
The 2021 New York City Labor Power 100
The union leaders and labor advocates defending the city’s workers.
Power List
New York State Top 50 Lobbyists 2021
The government relations firms that earned the most lobbying in the state in 2020.
OpinionShow All
Opinion
The suite life of a COVID-19 patient
My experience in New York City’s isolation hotel program.
Opinion
NY’s pot leaders need to consider environmental impacts now
Environmental justice should be the top priority when devising the state’s regulatory framework.
Opinion
NYCHA needs big money for major progress
Here’s why the federal government should double the amount allocated in the American Jobs Plan for public housing to $80 billion and help bring much-needed change to the housing authority in New York City.
Editor's Note
Editor’s Note: A beloved Upper West Sider is frank about pandemic isolation
Brigitta “Brig” Ortner, a friend of local politicians and a Holocaust survivor, uses a dry sense of humor to keep up her morale.
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