In a new Quinnipiac University poll, an overwhelming majority of New York City voters do not want Mayor Bill de Blasio to run for president – by a 76-18 percent margin – as he hits the campaign trail again this weekend.
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De Blasio is expected to announce the creation of a blue-ribbon commission whose task will be to find consensus around a new plan to repair a deteriorating section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
One of New York City’s leading architecture firms has a new plan to fix the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that would turn the triple-stacked road into a tiered green space without closing the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.
The de Blasio administration plans to use eminent domain on a set of parcels near Hudson Yards for what may become New York City’s most expensive park, on a per-acre basis.
New York City Transit President Andy Byford said now that his Fast Forward repair plan has a dedicated funding stream, he needs the nitpickers and naysayers to keep their typical not-in-my-backyard attitude to themselves in order to get it done.
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New York is leading five other states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision late last year to roll back Obama-era standards for school lunches, allowing higher levels of sodium and fewer whole grains.
According to a new audit from state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, a probe by investigators into the state Office of Children and Family Services was met with resistance from the agency and restricted access.
New York City spends $6.3 million a year on a citywide training program that it likens to a CPR course for behavioral health as part of ThriveNYC, but critics say few studies have examined, or proven, how the course helps the mentally ill.
Uber spent $2 million since 2015 in a campaign to approve congestion pricing, with $1 million just since November, including spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund an ad on behalf of the Fix Our Transit coalition targeting undecided politicians.
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Howie Hawkins, a co-founder of the Green Party who has repeatedly run for New York governor, announced that he is exploring a run for president in 2020 on the Green Party line.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said that lawmakers in the state capital are going to be “laser-focused” on rent regulations, which expire in June, in the coming weeks of the legislative sessions.
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More than a dozen Democrats in the state Assembly voted against the sweeping “big ugly” budget bill earlier this week, disillusioned by the process and upset over the inclusion of policies and measures unrelated to state spending.
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Leaders of the union for workers at hundreds of New York City preschools and early childhood centers say they are in talks with city officials over boosting teacher pay as they consider a possible one-day strike next month.
According to a new Quinnipiac poll, a majority of New York City voters, 57 percent, wants specialized schools admissions to be based on more than a single exam, although opinion varied sharply on racial and ethnic lines.
In an effort to divert food from landfills and incinerators, organizations that produce large amounts of food waste will be required to separate their excess food and donate edible items while sending food scraps to an "organics recycler” as part of the state budget.
In the past two weeks, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz has begun traveling with two armed Erie County sheriff's deputies and security vehicles to his scheduled events as a response to recent threats.
The software being used for state testing in grades 3-8 crashed across New York, leaving students unable to log in and complete the English language arts tests and causing the state to cancel all online testing for Wednesday.
A new community group with $650,000 in funding is mounting strong opposition to the $1.2 billion plan to build an arena for the New York Islanders, along with a retail and entertainment complex on state land at Belmont Park.
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Cuomo hit his state budget mark of capping spending at 2 percent growth, but while his spending cap has been stingy by historical standards, it’s still not stingy enough, E.J. McMahon writes.
It’s a big, big, big deal that New York has finally passed congestion pricing, but for the new revenue to go anywhere near as far as it needs to, it must go hand in hand with a radical overhaul of the way the Transit Authority and the MTA do business.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may seem like the first of her time if one looks at recent media coverage of her, but she would be the first to tell you that she hails from a long line of defiant, outspoken congresswomen from New York.
A looming affordable housing deadline in Brooklyn may be met – but only because state requirements are far looser than what Brooklynites were promised regarding the Pacific Park project, launched in 2003 as Atlantic Yards.
Supporters of U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and her presidential campaign have dubbed themselves “Gillistans,” a strong community of avid supporters who are as impressed with her women-centric message as they are with her passionate demeanor.
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The House Judiciary Committee authorized its chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, to use a subpoena to try to force the Justice Department to give Congress a full copy of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
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Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, has been working for months on a proposal that could increase the number of low- and high-skilled workers legally admitted to the country annually.
President Donald Trump has given his advisers and GOP lawmakers policy whiplash in recent days, cycling through new ideas on health care and immigration that underscore his continuing struggle to pursue a coherent domestic agenda.
Two more women came out to say that former Vice President Joe Biden’s overly familiar touching made them uncomfortable, further muddying Biden’s predicament as he considers a third presidential run in 2020.
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