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Who’s Running for Borough President — And Why You Should Care
This year, elected offices across the city are up for grabs: all 51 City Council seats, comptroller and mayor. New Yorkers in each county also have the opportunity to select their next borough president, a role that’s something like a local mini-mayor. BPs, or “beeps” for fun, have a lot less power than the mayor, […]
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Special Interests Spend Big to Reshape City Council
While New York City’s campaign finance system caps how much money people can give to campaigns, there are no limits on what corporations can give to independent influence groups, which in turn can spend as much as they want to support their preferred candidates. Some of the most influential real estate and financial interests in […]
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De Blasio Sued City Hall and Lost. Here’s How Much It’s Costing Us
Ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio recently agreed to pay back taxpayers $330,000 for his misuse of an NYPD detail during his ill-fated 2019 campaign for the White House, admitting that he’d made a mistake and withdrawing a lawsuit fighting the demand for restitution. The hardworking taxpayers of New York City, however, aren’t off the hook. Public […]
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Feds’ Files on Eric Adams Reveal Uzbek Influence Campaign That Yielded Election Cash
A Brooklyn businessman served as a proxy for the government of Uzbekistan to leverage Mayor Eric Adams’ stature as the leader of the nation’s biggest city to sanitize the regime’s tarnished image, law enforcement records reviewed by THE CITY allege. To curry the mayor’s favor, the businessman, Tolib Mansurov, allegedly arranged illegal straw donations to […]
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Cuomo, Who Cut Public Worker Pensions, Joins Mayoral Candidates Calling to Boost Them
As governor, Andrew Cuomo was the mastermind behind an unpopular reform approved in 2012 that slashed pension benefits for future public employees and raised their retirement age at 63 — while previously hired employees could retire at 62 and teachers at 55. Back then, Cuomo said the creation of the Tier 6 track put the […]
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