New York City

Politics

Alicia Glen’s tenure by the numbers

New York City Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen leaves a mixed legacy. Here are the ups and downs.

New York City

Policy

Doobie brothers: Cuomo and de Blasio’s evolution on recreational marijuana

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio both experimented with marijuana – and have finally come around to legalizing it.

New York City

Personality

Queens’ top librarian on bookstore-killer Amazon

Queens Library President and CEO Dennis Walcott on what HQ2 means for the Queens Library.

Politics

City & State’s best stories of 2018

Our best profiles, analyses and investigations over the past year.

Politics

City & State’s biggest hits of 2018

Our most popular stories are not the ones you might expect.

Personality

4 things to know about Crystal Peoples-Stokes

Incoming Assembly majority leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes has to keep Democrats in line.

Labor

Policy

Why Charter just agreed to a $174.2 million settlement

What you need to know about the payouts and other promises Charter made in the settlement.

New York City

Politics

Crespo out at Somos, Davila taking over

Brooklyn assemblywoman Maritza Davila named to lead Somos, the New York Assembly’s Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force.

Andrew Cuomo

Politics

What Cuomo is avoiding

The governor’s 2019 agenda left out some progressive priorities.

New York State

Policy

Labor looks to Albany to protect workers

Lawmakers eye public works reform, elevator safety and farmworkers’ rights.

Labor

Policy

Did Gounardes get the best Senate committee assignment?

Chairing the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions is a sweet development for the incoming legislator.

Andrew Cuomo

Policy

The troubled history of the Tappan Zee’s replacement

The new Mario M. Cuomo Bridge’s faulty bolts are just the latest problem in the troubled history of the Tappan Zee’s replacement.

Andrew Cuomo

Politics

All the governor’s Republicans

Cuomo’s recent hiring of a former IDC staffer is not the first time he has hired someone from across the aisle.