Some 2,800 people have applied to join Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crews, an early show of interest in City Hall’s experiment with building digital government services more quickly and…
Many NYC business groups welcomed Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to cut red tape for small businesses, though some cautioned that the more than 50 reforms amount to only a first step – and the city’s leading restaurant…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled more than 50 changes Monday aimed at making it easier to open and operate a small business in New York City — from seeking to eliminate a duplicative ice cream permit to assigning…
The proposed ballot measures will save lives, advocates said.
A more than six-year-old dispute over what former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg allegedly promised staffers on his 2020 presidential campaign has reached Manhattan court, where he is seeking to block questioning…
The City Council voted Thursday to give its members an 18.2% raise, increasing rank-and-file lawmakers’ salaries from $148,500 to $175,500 and approving higher salaries for other elected offices across city government.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s 23-point rental reform agenda is beginning to move toward implementation, with housing officials preparing agency changes and City Hall opening talks over proposals requiring legislation, as…
Why don't the mayor and governor tell New Yorkers to avoid driving on bad air days?
Council also passes legislation to provide workforce stabilization payments for school paraprofessionals CITY HALL, NY – Today, the New York City Council voted to approve major land use projects that will collectively…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani raised about $301,000 during the opening month of his 2029 reelection campaign and has decided not to participate in New York City’s public matching-funds program — allowing him to accept larger…
"The mayor deserves high praise for making food affordability a priority—but the approach is wrong.
The report provides a roadmap for how the Mamdani administration plans to strengthen enforcement, improve housing quality and make the market fairer, officials said.
Join Streetsblog as we check out one of the mayor's signature World Cup transit improvements helping thousand of riders get to and from an airport named for another Democratic Socialist.
"This will likely be a prolonged event, and we might see even worse air quality tomorrow," Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Amanda Lefton told reporters Wednesday.
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on Tuesday that paused certain state environmental permit applications for New York’s largest new or expanding data centers while her administration develops new rules for the…
A former top aide for ex-Mayor Eric Adams sued the city over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decision to end the city’s taxpayer-funded representation of him in four sexual assault, retaliation and improper conduct cases that…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Tuesday that the City Council will receive hundreds of NYC public school contracts it has sought for months “in the coming weeks,” offering a public timeframe in an escalating transparency…
La ciudad de Nueva York está ampliando sus canales de comunicación con los residentes hispanohablantes a través del lanzamiento del “Chisme Oficial de NYC”, según anunció esta semana el alcalde Zohran Mamdani.
Regular people want faster safety improvements and outdoor dining approvals, but pols appear to want to retain their power.
Mayor Mamdani has undone so much of the damage Eric Adams did to street safety — but in Hasidic Williamsburg, he pauses.
At a Coney Island go-kart track on Monday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a City Hall “pit crew” intended to keep government technology from sputtering in the slow lane.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Friday that the City will add Little Italy to a public-facing map of immigrant enclaves after Italian American leaders blasted its omission from a World Cup tourism program as an insult to one…
Activists want more Summer Streets, but the city obliges with the same old, could-be-better program.
"Every New Yorker deserves to know what their city is doing for them in the language they speak at home," Mayor Zohran Mamdani said during a press conference announcing the launch of "El Chisme Oficial de NYC."
The MTA moved the Q23 onto Queens Boulevard to avoid traffic on Austin Street.
Nearly one-third of city agencies surveyed by New York City’s corruption watchdog reported having no staff performing internal audit functions, while half lacked internal audit plans, according to a Department of…
Let's offer the new mayor a primer on what he's getting into!
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Wednesday he is “quite content” with New York City’s current primary system, offering a cool reception to open-primary proposals as a separate court fight seeks to put the issue before voters…
Attorney General Letitia James’ latest fight with the Trump administration focuses on New York’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, a federally....
After two very disappointing mayoralties, transit users are asking, "Are we finally getting our long-promised Bus Mayor?" The answer?