Mayor Zohran Mamdani is continuing a part of his predecessor’s budgeting legacy: using New Yorkers’ water bills as a piggy bank for the city budget. The Mamdani administration is following a pattern set under former Mayor Eric Adams by calling for the collection of $313 million in charges imposed on the Water Board to lease […]

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A year after a city watchdog documented that the head of the city Board of Elections (BOE) regularly made inappropriate sexual and ethnically biased comments to a younger Hispanic staff attorney, the BOE has yet to implement most of the oversight agency’s recommended reforms. The boss involved, executive director Michael Ryan, also remains at the […]

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Dozens of home care workers settled in Wednesday for a sit-in outside City Hall, calling on Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council to support legislation that would ban 24-hour shifts they say has ravaged their physical and emotional well-being. The sit-in of indeterminate length is the latest escalation by New York’s home care workers, […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to appoint a state-level operations official as the city’s next sanitation boss, officials confirmed with THE CITY.  Gregory Anderson, who is currently the deputy director of state operations in Albany, will be formally announced for the job later this week. Before his state gig — where he worked under former […]

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Dylan Lopez Contreras, the first New York City public school student detained by federal immigration officials during President Donald Trump’s second term, was released Tuesday night after spending 10 months in federal custody, according to his mother and his legal team. Dylan, now 21, was a student at ELLIS Preparatory Academy, a Bronx school geared […]

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