Muslim organizations last week called for the resignation of Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and NYPD spokesman Paul Browne, the creation of a police oversight body and the retraining of 1,500 ...
CUNY Chancellor, left, City Council Speaker, center, and other CUNY officials (photo: William Alatriste/NYC Council Media Unit) Looking ahead to next school and beyond, the City University of New York ...
It could take years and tens of millions of dollars for upstate hospitals to restore more than 200 psychiatric beds that were shuttered in recent years, owing to major operating deficits and an ...
As an Upper West Side resident, I’ve heard a lot of discussion recently about plans for a Safe Haven on West 83rd Street. While many of my neighbors have expressed excitement about this new ...
The New York City Housing Authority is facing a fiscal crisis as rent revenue has plummeted in the wake of the pandemic, affecting its operational budget, constraining its ability to hire personnel, ...
Treatment could be available for more defendants (photo: Michael Appleton/Mayor's Office) State legislation to expand alternatives to incarceration for people with mental illness is gaining momentum ...
As Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams, both first-term Democrats, double down this year on their focus on public safety and crime in New York, both have emphasized the need to give prosecutors ...
New York’s final state legislative race of 2022 was decided in 2023, but it didn’t have to be that way. New York passed a ballot cure law in 2020, in recognition ...
One year into his term as Brooklyn Borough President, Antonio Reynoso is taking an expansive view of his office and pushing an ambitious set of policy proposals. Reynoso, then a City Council member, ...
Mayor Adams and City Council Members Announce Budget Deal (photo: Emil Cohen/NYC Council Media Unit) Mayor Eric Adams recently ordered most city agencies to halve their budgeted vacant positions as a ...
Update: Governor Hochul signed legislation to restore some of the comptroller's oversight of SUNY, CUNY, and Office of General Services centralized contracts on December 30, 2022. Governor Kathy ...
Approximately 5.7 million New Yorkers across the state cast ballots in one of the closest races for governor in over two decades, according to unofficial 2022 election data. Some votes, especially ...