Mayor Zohran Mamdani will on Saturday appoint Tricia Shimamura, currently a borough commissioner in the Parks Department, to lead the agency, according to officials.  She will replace Iris Rodriguez-Rosa, who was appointed commissioner last year after nearly 40 years in the Parks Department.  Mayor Mamdani praised Shimamura’s ability to listen to New Yorkers to find […]

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Murders. Shootings. Robberies.  The number of those major crimes in the city all fell sharply last year — with some plunging to their lowest levels in modern recorded history.  How much attention should New Yorkers pay to figures like these? And what numbers do criminologists and police officials believe matter most? Those questions are taking […]

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Just two weeks into his new office, city Comptroller Mark Levine is warning that Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces a cumulative $12 billion budget gap that the new mayor must say how he intends to close in an early February budget plan. The estimate, shared in an interview in advance of a report to be published […]

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All three striking hospital systems have agreed to meet with the New York State Nurses Association and federal and state mediators, in the first sign of progress since 15,000 nurses walked off the job earlier this week, THE CITY has learned. Representatives from Montefiore and Mount Sinai will return to the bargaining table on Friday, […]

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Newly-elected City Council Speaker Julie Menin rolled out new leadership roles for the city’s legislative body, elevating its newest members to chair more than half of the committees.  Councilmember Shaun Abreu (D-Manhattan) is majority leader, while Councilmember Nantasha Williams (D-Queens) is deputy speaker, Menin announced. Kamilah Hanks, a Democrat who represents parts of Staten Island, […]

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