Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: The Climate Law puts dollars into Black and Latino communities
Strong leadership should protect it, not gut it.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
City’s first ‘close Rikers czar’ starts this month
Dana Kaplan will work to get the complex replaced with four borough-based jails.
News & Politics
Politics
Progressive wars: Raj Goyle claims support from trans activist who endorsed Drew Warshaw
The state comptroller candidate posted, unposted, reposted and unposted a video of himself with trans activist Evanna Vasquez.
Heard Around Town
Politics
Hello from the other side: CM Lincoln Restler’s wife Anna Poe-Kest works at OMB
COIB is cool with it, but a political power couple across the table of a contentious budget process has raised some eyebrows.
Heard Around Town
Politics
WFP doesn’t want Schlossberg
The New York Working Families Party may reopen its endorsement process in NY-12.
Campaigns & Elections
Policy
Claire Valdez calls for a rent freeze – and universal rent control
The DSA-backed congressional candidate is going a step further than Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Child care
Policy
Childcare providers and lawmakers want $500M to eliminate waitlists
Providers say Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to achieve universal childcare is promising, but millions more are needed to support the workforce to make it a reality.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Our laws must make clear that intoxication is not consent
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a time to confront the gaps that continue to leave survivors without justice.
New York City
Politics
More New Yorkers voted last year than in any mayoral election since 1969
The NYCCFB’s annual Voter Analysis Report unpacks the massive surge in participation.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: To help the outer boroughs, keep World Cup tourists in hotels
Airbnb’s proposal to roll back the city’s regulations on short-term rentals during the World Cup would siphon visitors away from struggling outer borough hotels.
Heard Around Town
Politics
How Mamdani was convinced to back Boylan
The mayor’s closest political adviser Morris Katz was a proponent of getting involved with the tricky special election.
Policy
Policy
A limit on informal ICE collusion is nixed from budget talks
Lawmakers and the governor had been at odds over informal local cooperation with immigration agents in civil and criminal matters
Upstate
Policy
Upstate mayors want youth justice funds faster
The mayors of Albany, Syracuse and Rochester are calling on state lawmakers to allow some Raise the Age money to go directly to community organizations.
Events
Personality
At NYC Power 100 event, Tisch commends Mamdani for leading with ‘SRG’
The police commissioner joked that the mayor has the core principle of “Support, Reinforce and Grow.”
New York City Council
Politics
Carl Wilson wins NYC Council special election, in a blow to Mamdani
The Manhattan race to succeed Erik Bottcher became a Mamdani-Menin proxy battle after the mayor endorsed second-place finisher Lindsey Boylan.
Energy & Environment
Opinion
Opinion: Our private energy system is failing. The public can save it.
New York must move off fossil fuels as soon as possible – and the only way to meet this goal is to plan our energy system around the needs of the public, not profiteers.
Heard Around Town
Politics
Boylan apologizes if coworkers ‘had a bad experience with me’
Lindsey Boylan is a leading candidate in Tuesday’s New York City Council special election, endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
Asad Dandia is Brooklyn’s new borough historian
Borough President Antonio Reynoso tapped the popular tour guide, who’s close with Mayor Zohran Mamdani, to safeguard Brooklyn’s past.
Budget
Politics