Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a media availability with Commissioner Dave Chokshi, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, on September 29, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office Why Not Vaccine Mandates for All? Vaccine mandates work, the mayor says. So why isn’t vaccination against COVID-19 mandated for more New Yorkers? That question... News 03 Oct 2021 | 02:37
Mark Levine pulled ahead of Brad Hoylman after what had become a two-candidate race for Manhattan Borough President. Photo courtesy of Council Member Mark Levine’s campaign Manhattan Victories New York City will see a massive turnover in local leadership come 2022, and with the primary results released this week,... News 09 Jul 2021 | 07:05
Mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia. Photo via Kathryn Garcia on Twitter Garcia Receives Citizens Union Endorsement Citizens Union, the city’s oldest political reform group, endorsed Kathyrn Garcia for Mayor and also ranked Eric Adams and... News 11 Jun 2021 | 04:41
Photo: Scott Stringer via Twitter ‘A City for Everyone’ As he formally launched his campaign for mayor of New York City Tuesday morning, City Comptroller Scott Stringer vowed to... News 11 Sep 2020 | 10:07
The Lucerne Hotel on West 79th Street. Photo: Michael Oreskes How The Lucerne Became a Shelter Experts agree that the first rule for communicating in a crisis is to get the facts out as accurately, fully and quickly... News 04 Sep 2020 | 03:27
Photo: John Morton, via flickr. State vs City Clash on Election Reforms UPDATED, Aug. 11 at 2:50 p.m.: After a bungled primary election, concerns are mounting over whether election officials will... News 11 Aug 2020 | 02:49
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signs an executive order on June 12 requiring local police agencies, including the NYPD, to reinvent and modernize police strategies based on community input. With Rev. Al Sharpton, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Leader Carl Heastie, Valerie Bell, the mother of Sean Bell; Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner; and Hazel N. Dukes, President of the NAACP New York State Conference. ( Photo: Kevin P. Coughlin/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo) Reforming the Police Weeks after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, protesters are still taking to the streets demanding police reform... News 15 Jun 2020 | 01:30
Working to help pass New York state's same-sex marriage legislation in 2011 was an early high point in Erik Bottcher's career. ( Photo: Courtesy of Friends of Erik Bottcher) It's All About the Details In Erik Bottcher’s ideal political world, policy problems would be resolved by gathering stakeholders around a table to hash... News 18 Feb 2020 | 11:30
Governor Cuomo tours L Train tunnel and shows improvements made ahead of schedule and on budget on September 29, 2019. ( Photo: Darren McGee / Office of Governor Cuomo) Who Runs the Transit System? Once upon a time in the Great City, Hugh L. Carey, one of New York’s best modern governors, and certainly its most underrated,... News 31 Jan 2020 | 01:46
Mayor Bill de Blasio and other New York politicians joined thousands of participants in the March Against Anti-Semitism on the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday, January 5, 2020. ( Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) Taking Action Against Hate “No Hate. No Fear.” “#JewishANDProud.” “America 2020 Not Germany 1933.” The signs were everywhere on a cold, clear day in Lower... Home 06 Jan 2020 | 01:29
Mayor Bill de Blasio announces that Loree Sutton, MD, Brigadier General (Ret.), will step down as Commissioner of the Department of Veterans’ Services during an event on the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on October 3, 2019. ( Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) Loree Sutton A General's Next Campaign After a decades-long career in the military, and the transient lifestyle that accompanied it, retired Army brigadier general... Home 27 Dec 2019 | 02:59
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, spoke about the toll that food insecurity takes on students. ( Photo: Sarah Ben-Nun) Fighting Food Insecurity at CUNY Food insecurity, defined by the United States Department of Agriculture as “the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally... News 19 Dec 2019 | 03:05
Honorees after the event with emcee Errol Louis (center) and Straus Media President and Publisher Jeanne Straus (right of center). ( Photos: Ciro J. Napolitano) Honoring Building Service Workers Award Winners Straus Media-Manhattan joined forces with 32 BJ SEIU last Wednesday to recognize the accomplishments of 21 building service... News 08 Nov 2019 | 03:09
First Lady Chirlane McCray hosts the Fourth Annual Faith Leaders ThriveNYC Breakfast at Gracie Mansion on April 11, 2019. ( Photo: Joanna Graham/Mayoral Photography Office) Facing a Mental Health Crisis The fatal police shooting of a bipolar man at a Brooklyn nail salon Friday has brought even more scrutiny on the de Blasio... News 29 Oct 2019 | 09:18
City Council Member Helen Rosenthal, left, Speaker Corey Johnson and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer. ( Photo: Courtesy Office of the City Council Speaker) At last, a city storefront database From the Upper West Side to Astoria to Bed-Stuy, empty storefronts seem to be everywhere you look in New York City. These... Voices 02 Aug 2019 | 02:18
