Mayor Eric Adams will face a make-or-break moment when the panel that doles out millions of dollars in public campaign matching funds decides whether his reelection bid merits more taxpayer money — despite mounting evidence of irregularities and allegations of fraud in both his 2021 and 2025 campaigns. On Monday, the city Campaign Finance Board […]

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Crystal Peoples-Stokes, the majority leader of the state Assembly, advocated Tuesday to extend financial aid to struggling cannabis store operators who have been saddled with high-cost loans from a “social equity fund” created as a core part of New York’s marijuana legalization program.   Speaking in Albany at the monthly Cannabis Control Board meeting, Peoples-Stokes (D-Buffalo) […]

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Melrose residents in the South Bronx have their local library back.  More than three years after the Melrose Library branch closed its doors for renovations, New York Public Library administrators, elected officials, and community members celebrated the reopening of the Melrose Library at 910 Morris Avenue.  The branch returned last week with an additional floor, […]

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New York City will have shut down two dozen shelters in the five boroughs and beyond by the end of March, city officials announced Tuesday morning. Those include the vast family shelter at Floyd Bennett Field on federal property in southern Brooklyn, which is expected to be moved out by Jan. 15 — five days […]

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Rival rallies over proposed relief of restrictions on Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms faced off at City Hall Park Monday, playing out a live debate in front of the home of the City Council that will ultimately have to pick a side. On one side was the newly launched “Tenants not Tourists” Coalition, made […]

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