A proposal to switch New York City to an open primary system — allowing voters in any party to take part in the first round of elections — will not be added to this November’s ballot, the head of the mayor’s Charter Revision Commission announced Wednesday. Richard R. Buery Jr., who chairs the group looking […]

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A Manhattan Supreme Court judge on Tuesday granted 30 recently hired NYPD officers a reprieve from being fired, rejecting the department’s bid to end a temporary order blocking the terminations. The NYPD told the officers last week they had 24 hours to resign or face termination because they had been improperly hired in 2023 or […]

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This story was produced as part of a partnership between THE CITY and NOTUS, a publication from the nonprofit, nonpartisan Allbritton Journalism Institute. New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani met with Democratic members of Congress in Washington on Wednesday morning, as several members of the caucus have expressed reservations about his rise in the party. […]

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A coalition of states — including New York and New Jersey, which just experienced flash flooding that killed two — are suing the Trump administration over its abrupt cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars of natural disaster preparedness funding. The group of 19 Democratic attorneys general and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro accused the Federal […]

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Former Interim NYPD Commissioner Thomas Donlon filed an explosive federal lawsuit Wednesday, alleging that Mayor Eric Adams and several of his associates he made department leaders functioned as a criminal “racketeering” enterprise.  Donlon said the officials’ efforts to consolidate power and punish dissent included promoting unqualified but politically connected officers — including by forging Donlon’s […]

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