Republicans in Washington, at the behest of President Donald Trump, are crafting a bill to cut spending and use the savings to pay for tax cuts that could reduce aid to New York by tens of billions of dollars, blowing huge holes in both the state and city budgets. The result could confront both the […]

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A proposed affordable senior housing project in Brooklyn will become the first development to go through a new streamlined process for city approval. The Adams administration launched that process, called Green Fast Track, with an aim to produce small and medium-sized all-electric housing faster. The proposed housing development in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Homecrest is […]

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Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in 2021 following a report that found he had sexually harassed multiple women, officially declared himself a candidate for mayor of New York City on Saturday, ending months of speculation about his potential candidacy. Cuomo released a 17 plus-minute video declaring his candidacy Saturday on his website, […]

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Taxpayers are now facing a bill topping $300,000 for private lawyers hired to handle four lawsuits accusing Timothy Pearson, a former top aide to Mayor Eric Adams, of sexually harassing a female employee and then retaliating against other staff who complained about his behavior. The law firm hired by the city Corporation Counsel to handle […]

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A nearly two-week illegal strike by state correction officers appeared to be over Friday after Gov. Kathy Hochul agreed to a series of concessions — including the “temporary” suspension of a law restricting the use of solitary confinement to 15-days.  The state also agreed to limit ordering correction officers to work 24-hour mandatory overtime because […]

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