Energy & Environment

Politics

‘Stay quenched:’ Mamdani activates Code Red alert ahead of heat wave

After dealing with the city’s coldest winter in a decade, the mayor will face off against potentially record-breaking heat during a tourist-packed holiday weekend.

Policy

Updated Policy

Mamdani, Menin shake on $126B NYC budget

After a whirlwind weekend of last-minute haggling.

Campaigns & Elections

Politics

The rise of Tammamdani Hall

How Zohran Mamdani (and DSA) built a political machine that just can’t lose.

News & Politics

Politics

As city budget deadline looms, Mamdani faces renewed calls to keep campaign promises

Outside City Hall, advocates rallied to curb NYPD spending and expand rental assistance.

Politics

Politics

Speaker Julie Menin is quite wealthy

And other insights from Zohran Mamdani and other NYC elected officials’ financial disclosures.

Events

Policy

The World Cup is in New Jersey, so the city fixed the Brooklyn Bridge bike lane

But DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn said it’s all to make New York better even after the tourists leave.

News & Politics

Politics

NYC-DSA chides Mamdani for increasing NYPD headcount

The mayor’s political home says his actions have “run counter to the values of the socialist and working-class movement that elected him.”

Policy

Policy

The City Council’s trying again to ban horse carriages

Animal welfare advocates rallied to support the latest legislation after over a decade of failed attempts to end the city’s horse-drawn carriage industry.

Read First

Policy

Talk of open primaries dominates first COGE hearing

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first Charter Revision Commission meeting was haunted by Eric Adams’ last commission

Zohran Mamdani

Policy

What Mamdani got – and didn’t get – from Albany this year

Some of the New York City mayor’s biggest wins and losses after his first session lobbying for City Hall.

Zohran Mamdani

Politics

Nobody’s happy about Mamdani’s scaled down Puerto Rican event

Reps. Adriano Espaillat and Nydia Velázquez are doing their own event

New York City

Politics

Mamdani’s Charter Revision Commission schedules a flurry of meetings

With three back-to-back rendezvous, the Committee on Government Efficiency is committing to govern efficiently.

News & Politics

Politics

Mamdani and AOC endorse DSA legislative candidates – but not the same ones

The two popular socialists’ complementary endorsements let (almost) everyone put a famous face on their flyers.

Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: Make the Charter Revision Commission count

Whether it’s reforming civil service or better utilizing AI, Mamdani’s appointees should go big.

Commentary

Politics

Who else might Mamdani endorse?

After endorsing Darializa Avila Chevalier for Congress, the mayor could turn attention to legislative races.

Zohran Mamdani

Politics

Mamdani’s EDC, still leaderless, still stressing out the NYC business community

“It’s the type of thing where the longer you don’t hire for it, the narrative gets harder out in the world,” one person said.

Budget

Policy

Mamdani has placed DCWP front and center. Menin wants him to give it $32M more

The City Council will call for a big increase in the consumer and worker protection department’s budget at a hearing on Friday.

Zohran Mamdani

Politics

It’s time for Zohran’s Charter Revision Commission

It’s not a year in New York City unless there are at least two Charter Revision Commissions happening, and ideally they are dueling.