Last month, the nonprofit Citizens Budget Commission brought together the state comptroller Tom DiNapoli, outgoing City Comptroller Brad Lander and his incoming successor Mark Levine to discuss fiscal issues and what a comptroller does. It fell to Bill Thompson, a former city comptroller, to introduce DiNapoli, who has served in the job for 18 years. […]

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Starbucks agreed to pay $38 million to settle an investigation by the city’s labor and consumer agency that found the coffee giant committed systemic violations of local scheduling laws at its New York City locations between 2021 and 2024, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday. A three-year probe by the city Department of Consumer and Worker […]

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It turns out that the count of our mayors has been off by one, dating back to when the city had a population of just 2,500 — meaning the mayor-elect will be New York’s 112th mayor, though still the 111th person to serve.  FAQ NYC hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss that […]

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The final three contenders for a lucrative downstate casino license were all approved by the state’s Gaming Facility Location Board on Monday. The winners — Bally’s Corporation in The Bronx, and Metropolitan Park and Resorts World in Queens — now advance to the final round of approvals before they can officially begin building and operating […]

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Two years ago, street vendors returned to Corona Plaza in diminished numbers after a sweeping crackdown by the Sanitation Department on the Queens public square earlier that summer upended their livelihoods.  The energetic but unregulated market that drew neighborhood complaints was no more, and in its place came what Mayor Eric Adams called the city’s […]

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