New York lawmakers have voted to add directors of children’s overnight or summer day camps to the list of those required to report suspected child abuse or maltreatment to the state and to local social services officials.
A partisan fight in state Senate Wednesday night allowed New York City’s rent control law to expire at least temporarily, while threatening a bill to cap property taxes statewide.
Fulton Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn is now an area that is no longer predominantly black. According to the 2010 census, the black population in Fort Greene and neighboring Clinton Hill shrunk by about one-third over the last 10 years.
On Tuesday, Sen. Roy McDonald (R-Saratoga) – in a dramatic reversal from his earlier opposition – became the second Republican in as many days to give his blessing to To’eiva marriage, bringing Senate support to 31 votes – Just one vote shy of becoming law in New York.
Marty Markowitz is “strongly considering” a run for mayor in 2013, sources close to the Brooklyn borough president told The Post.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced he will introduce new legislation that will crack down on drivers caught using a portable electronic device including Blackberrys, iPhones, iPads, laptop computers, gaming devices and any other portable device, or talking on a cell phone without a hands free device, while driving.
The Bloomberg administration is seeking state approval to install cameras on some of the Sanitation Department’s street cleaners in a pilot program aimed at taking the burden off traffic agents in enforcing alternate-side parking rules.
On its own, Brooklyn would be the nation’s fourth largest city. The U.S. Cenus Bureau says there are 2.5 million residents here, but borough officials say the figure is closer to 2.6 million.
The humiliating melt down of Rep. Anthony Weiner has reshuffled the 2013 mayoral race, with political insiders nominating City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and former Comptroller Bill Thompson as the new front-runners.
Crossing the Hudson will soon take a bigger toll on commuters who are already struggling with skyrocketing gas prices.
The second heat wave of 2011 will get cranking, with temperatures nearing 90 degrees and likely staying there for the rest of the week.
When New Yorkers head underground, they cannot always be sure of what awaits them. The city’s subway system can be mysterious, with daily delays resulting from minor emergencies, track work and other events in the tunnels that riders know they will never truly understand.
The chief executives of three ailing Brooklyn hospitals are finalizing a de facto merger proposal that they expect to submit to state officials as early as this week. Their plan, which calls for a “northern Brooklyn health care alliance,” could include a major restructuring, closure or repurposing of at least one of the hospitals.
Zoltan Hirsch, a double amputee in a wheelchair, has claimed he is trying to make New York City more handicapped accessible, one lawsuit at a time, but some wonder whether Hirsch — who files suits at the rate of about one a day — is a crusader or con man, the New York Post reported Sunday.
Grocery stores and gas stations could soon be shelling out sacks of cash on electrical upgrades.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday he will not run for president or seek a fourth term at the helm of the US’s most populous city.
Between 2001 and 2007, nine children died falling from windows, according to a report the Health Department issued in 2009. An audit by the New York City comptroller’s office has found deficiencies in the city’s window-guard enforcement program, which prevents children from falling through open windows.
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