A public hearing was held about the transfer of city land in East New York, Brooklyn to the developer Related Companies. Many residents are worried that Related will use the land to build the city’s first Walmart at the Gateway Mall.
Mayor Bloomberg is trying to dump the city’s garbage problem on neighborhoods in Brooklyn and the Bronx, advocates charge.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has the highest approval rating among his peers around the nation, with New Jersey’s Chris Christie coming second, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
Some City Council members fear the city could become less safe this year, now that Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration is postponing this month’s hiring of hundreds of New York City Police Department recruits until July.
A classic Albany deal is in the works that could protect 1 million New York City renters from big rent increases while also capping the growth in property taxes in the suburbs and upstate.
The city’s top cop, Ray Kelly, acknowledged that there is an investigation into alleged ticket fixing within the NYPD, but declined to comment specifically about reports that dozens of crooked cops could end up arrested in the scandal.
Drivers across the the Tri-State Area are wincing at prices at the gas pump.
The New York City Council officially responded Friday to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s preliminary budget proposal, telling the mayor it would be imprudent to slash critical city services or short-circuit the city’s economic recovery.
Hundreds of law enforcement officials from across the tri-state area are concluding a week-long exercise aimed at detecting and preventing radioactive material from coming into the city.
A number of security lapses in an airport shuttle system in New York is raising concerns among some Port Authority officers and state senators.
In selecting Cathleen P. Black as schools chancellor, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was, in many ways, playing to type: a man famous for ignoring advice, relying on his own instincts and doing the opposite of what an ordinary politician would do had chosen as leader of the nation’s largest school system a woman with no relevant experience whom he knew socially.
Two Drunk off-duty New York City police officers have crashed their vehicles on each of the past two nights.
The city’s Department of Environmental Protection commissioner will propose a 7.5 % increase in the water rate Thursday, which will continue more than 15 years of rising rates if it’s approved.
NEW YORK [NBC] — An e-mail sent to certain members of the media and New York state officials threatened violence against state office buildings, the state legislature and school buses.
A Brooklyn City Councilman is going after the hated neon shame stickers slapped on cars parked on the wrong side of the street.
In the final New Yorks State budget agreement, $25 million of title xx funds for Senior centers Fully restored, averting what could have forced the closure of senior centers statewide.
The streets were buried in snow, and these guys really cleaned up. Department of Sanitation workers shoveled in the OT in the week after the Christmas blizzard, some earning more than $5,000 in extra pay, according to city records obtained by The Post.
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