The United Federation of Teachers is calling for schools to be reopened in neighborhoods that have low COVID positivity rates rather than on a citywide basis—and for mayoral control of schools to be overhauled.
The family of a man shot and killed by plainclothes NYPD officers in September 2019 that also resulted in the friendly-fire death of Police Of…
In speaking about his responsibility throughout David Dinkins's mayoralty for putting together the Mayor's Management Report, former Director …
The Federal Monitor charged with overseeing repairs and reforms within the city’s public-housing developments has called for the Housing Autho…
David Dinkins, who died Nov. 23 at 93, made history as New York City's first black Mayor but had some significant achievements overshadowed by…
It took nearly three weeks, but the result, for State Senate Democrats, was worth the wait.
The rift between Gov. Cuomo and several County Sheriffs over their refusal to enforce his executive order prohibiting more than 10 people in p…
A debate set off after Staten Island City Council Member Joseph Borelli tweeted on Nov. 11 that he planned not to comply with Gov. Cuomo's exe…
The president of a former District Council 37 local representing staff in the city’s juvenile-detention centers that merged with Social Servic…
Six civil servants were honored as “New York City’s Justice League” during the Nov. 18 Sloan Public Service Awards.
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President-elect Joe Biden Nov. 16 expressed support for the $3.4-trillion HEROES Act bill approved by Democrats last spring providing billions…
Mayor de Blasio announced Nov. 18 that city public schools would close the following day due to rising COVID rates, but the late timing of the…
Labor Commissioner Renee Campion was unusually expansive Nov. 16 when we asked her about the deal with the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Associati…
Staff at Montefiore Medical Center’s Moses Campus in the Bronx say that the hospital isn’t ready for a second wave of COVID and rallied Nov. 1…
It began with an NYPD K-9 graduation 13 months ago that included a German shepherd named Vale, in memory of a Transit Detective murdered in th…
A "doomsday" financial plan floated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Nov. 18 was pronounced dead on arrival by the leaders of the …