The commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, Manuel Castro, refused to criticize elements of President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda when grilled by City Councilmembers at a budget hearing Thursday morning.  Castro — whose official biography notes that he “crossed the border with his mother and grew up undocumented in New York City” and […]

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The municipal union representing more than 25,000 security officers and other staff in public schools and hospitals, City University campuses and city Housing Authority complexes is endorsing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo for mayor. The endorsement of Teamsters Local 237, the largest Teamsters local anywhere, is a major coup for Cuomo, who announced his bid for […]

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As a school bell rang on a recent March afternoon, students at Bayside High School in Queens began to descend the building’s main staircase, which has not changed much since two City Hall characters attended the school together in the late 1970s.  The first is Eric Adams, the incumbent mayor who lived with undiagnosed dyslexia […]

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In 2019, a company called BusPatrol tried to sell the administration of then-Mayor Bill de Blasio on a system of school bus traffic enforcement cameras that would target scofflaw drivers who ignore the stop signs that swing out during pick-ups and drop-offs of children. The city Department of Transportation wasn’t interested, at one point stating […]

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This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. Congestion pricing and measles outbreaks are making national headlines. One could change the air we breathe, the other reminds us how tragic infectious disease outbreaks can be. Both have implications for New York. Here’s what you need to know. […]

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