Edward Grayson, a 21-year Department of Sanitation employee who most recently served as Director of the agency's Bureau of Cleaning and Collection, has been appointed acting Sanitation Commissioner, Mayor de Blasio announced Sept. 18, Kathryn Garcia’s last day in the job.
Mayor de Blasio said Sept. 21 that the city does not have a hard number on how many Teachers will be needed to address staffing shortages, but…
Mayor de Blasio's decision Sept. 23 to impose week-long furloughs on 9,000 city employees who lack union representation was decried by the hea…
The U.S. Justice Department Sept. 21 branding New York City, along with Portland, Ore. and Seattle, Wash. as "anarchist jurisdictions," a desi…
For most of four years, starting in early spring 2014, the owner of a Woodside electrical contracting business who had secured projects worth …
While Council Speaker Corey Johnson's decision to end his candidacy for Mayor Sept. 24 was viewed as a product of his having let down progress…
The Police Benevolent Association has lost its bid to overturn a successful ballot measure boosting the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s budget.
A State Supreme Court Justice has ruled that city officials, including Mayor de Blasio and former Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill, must t…
The coronavirus's greater demand on emergency services increased the Fire Department's response time to life-threatening medical emergencies b…
The Sept. 20 derailing of an A Train, allegedly after a homeless man threw loose debris on the tracks shortly before a train pulled into the s…
City and state officials lambasted the Justice Department’s designation of New York City as an “anarchist jurisdiction,” calling the agency's …
Citing the city's deteriorating finances, Mayor de Blasio Sept. 16 announced a one-week furlough for the close-to 500 employees who work direc…
The decision by the Trump Administration to divert millions of dollars from the Fire Department's World Trade Center health-screening program …
Flexing their collective political muscles, a coalition of 23 police unions representing more than 200,000 officers statewide has endorsed six…
Enlisting state and particularly Federal authorities is imperative if the city is to reduce the gun violence that has befallen it this summer,…
The New York State United Teachers filed a lawsuit Sept. 15 in Albany County Supreme Court contesting the state Division of Budget’s decision …
The Metro New York Labor Communications Council Sept. 30 will honor two Professors at the City University of New York's School of Labor and Ur…
