Personality

Personality

New York City is obsessed with the bad old days

The fear of going backward is growing, but the city is in a much better place today.

Nonprofits

NYN Media

Identifying and confronting LGBTQ hate

Beverly Tillery, executive director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project, discusses findings from a new report on anti-LGBTQ incidents reported by the organization’s affiliates nationwide.

Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: Why New York deserves a reproductive healthcare services training and education grant program

Including $6 to 8 million in the final state budget for such an effort will ensure that medical interns and residents are properly trained in medical and surgical abortion procedures.

Personality

Personality

Guess when New York will have a budget for some sweet City & State swag

We’ve got a coveted City & State NY shower curtain for the lucky person who guesses the date and time the spending plan is passed.

Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: We need a $21.25 minimum wage

Hochul’s proposal isn’t enough, a UPS package handler argues, the Raise the Wage Act is better.

Politics

Politics

Reynoso appoints Kim Council as deputy Brooklyn borough president

His former opponent in the BP race brings balance to the office after Diana Richardson was ousted.

Politics

Politics

As New York lawmakers decide how to spend billions, they make time for fundraising

At least 21 state lawmakers held fundraisers during budget season, and government watchdogs are predictably puke emoji about it.

Heard Around Town

Personality

Addiction-focused health commissioner still needs to talk to Hochul about overdoses

Acting Health Commissioner James McDonald is poised to take over permanently and has a history in overseeing controversial supervised injection sites.

Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: NY Legislature – fight for the film tax credit! Sincerely, NYC borough presidents

The film biz brings jobs and cachet to New York City.

Politics

Breaking News Politics

Trump indicted in Manhattan

A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict the former president for charges related to a hush money payment to a porn star.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Open New York pushes Hochul’s Housing Compact

An incentive-only approach to encourage localities to meet housing creation targets is a “nonstarter,” the pro-development group says.

Politics

Politics

The state of state budget talks: ‘the middle of the middle’

The state’s spending plan is due in a day, but everyone’s given up passing it on time.

Immigration

Policy

Manhattan’s population rebound leads nation, driven largely by immigration

The borough grew by more than 17,000 residents from 2021 to 2022, while the number of residents in Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx again declined.

Policy

Policy

Rank-and-file Assembly Dems insist bail changes will not be tolerated in budget talks

After news broke Wednesday that Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie could be open to removing the “least restrictive means” language from the law, his conference expressed confidence that their leader won’t cave on bail reform.

Budget

Opinion

Opinion: Real public safety starts with funding public goods, not police

We can tax the rich and use that money to invest in affordable housing, public transit, free childcare and higher education, and alternatives to incarceration.

Nonprofits

NYN Media

MyCity portal launches with focus on child care benefits

New York City Mayor Adams and Chief Technology Officer Matt Fraser promised “more to come” for the new city services portal.