The city should take steps to sever EMS from the FDNY and create a new Department of Emergency Medical Services. That was the message conveyed by the leaders of two unions representing EMS workers and officers at a City Council hearing last... MORE

Deb Daniels has come a long way from selling weed on Atlanta’s illicit market. Now a budtender at Yerba Buena, a legal recreational cannabis dispensary in Brooklyn, Daniels and his coworkers are given samples of new strains, edible cannabis... MORE

A City Council committee rejected legislation Friday that would have phased out the city's horse-drawn carriage industry.

The vote on Ryder's Law, or Intro 0967, ended 4-1 against the measure, with Council Member Simcha Felder casting the sole... MORE

Citing continued improvements in safety, staffing and behavior management, the federal monitoring team overseeing conditions of adolescent offenders at the Horizon Juvenile Center in the Bronx has concluded that its mission “is complete.”

In its... MORE

City workers determined to divest their pensions from Israeli stocks and bonds as well as companies that work with the Israeli military are pushing the incoming city comptroller, Mark Levine, to commit to divestment. A group of activist civil... MORE

The Internal Revenue Service has given its blessing to bully pulpits of all faiths by abjuring its traditional weapon of selectively enforcing tax codes in order to keep targeted individuals and organizations in line. 

Have they beaten... MORE

To the editor:

With gains in the recent election, President Trump's popularity declining and polls showing the public blaming the shutdown on the Republicans, one would have thought that this puts Democrats in a good position. But as Jay Leno... MORE

To the editor:

Zohran Mamdani decisively won the election for mayor, receiving more votes than any other mayoral candidate since 1969. Bob Dylan and Stephen Sondheim offer some timely advice to the wary political establishment. Dylan wrote,... MORE