PoliticsNY with Skye: Behind the Curtain with Chris Coffey, the new co-CEO of...
Click here to subscribe to the PoliticsNY YouTube channel. [1] Meet Chris Coffey, the new Co-CEO of Tusk Strategies, [2] a consulting firm founded by Bradley Tusk, who is known as one of the early...
View ArticleamNY Weekender | Things to do in NYC this Halloween weekend, Oct. 29-31
Friday, Oct. 29 A Night of the Drop Dead Gorgeous [1]: Enjoy a night of glitz and glamour among the dearly departed in Hollywood. Hosted by Nearly Ninth, A Night of Drop Dead Gorgeous is a night of fun...
View Article‘We’ve been waiting for this’: Hochul lays out plan to vaccinate young...
With the federal government on the cusp of approving COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5-11, Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Wednesday afternoon that the state is gearing up to distribute the...
View ArticleCriminal Justice Coalition pushes DAs to alleviate Rikers Island issues, set...
Several criminal justice groups have formed a coalition to demand the city's five district attorneys do more to combat the Rikers Island humanitarian crisis — specifically by setting hundreds of...
View ArticleQueens lawmaker Ramos, advocates hold panel on the ripple effects of mass...
Advocates and elected officials joined Children of Promise NYC founder and CEO, Sharon Content, to engage in a thought provoking conversation, entitled “Breaking the Chains of Incarceration,” on the...
View Article‘I’m going to be enslaved’: NYC taxi drivers on hunger strike beg for rescue...
Brooklyn taxi driver Augustine Tang has been sleeping out of his yellow cab outside City Hall for several nights without any food since Friday in protest of the city's medallion relief program. "The...
View ArticleFormer Rosedale resident charged with murdering housemate in life insurance...
A former Rosedale man has been charged with murdering a housemate and then scattering her body parts in a Brooklyn Park in an alleged life insurance scheme in 2018, federal prosecutors said. A...
View ArticleCity lawmakers urge DOE to release enrollment data
New York City public school students returned to classrooms last month without a remote option for the first time after a year and a half of disrupted learning caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic....
View ArticleCap crunch: MTA honchos working on fare limits for OMNY
MTA leaders are workshopping proposals to cap fares on OMNY, which would allow subway and bus commuters unlimited rides on the tap-and-go payment system after a certain amount of rides within a given...
View ArticleOne Brooklyn Health offers antibody treatment to reduce chance of...
One Brooklyn Health (OBH) is offering antibody treatment to help reduce the chance of hospitalization and death from the COVID-19 virus. Dr. Patrick T. Lee, chair of Medicine at One Brooklyn Health —...
View ArticleIslanders’ Anders Lee, Barry Trotz comment on Kyle Beach, Blackhawks
New York Islanders captain Anders Lee didn't miss a beat when he was posed with the difficult question of his thoughts on the Chicago Blackhawks sexual assault investigation that prompted "John Doe" to...
View ArticleVaccines for kids ages 5-11 expected to be available at NYC vaccination sites...
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City will be ready to start administering vaccines to kids ages 5 to 11 within 24 hours of federal authorization. The FDA’s Vaccines and Related...
View ArticleDemolition of Chelsea buildings from 1840s has preservationists up in arms
"It stinks," if you ask Andrew Berman, Executive Director of Village Preservation. What he was referring to are a set of well-known buildings at the corner of Ninth Avenue and 14th Street that date to...
View ArticleTune in: MTA to host one last virtual meeting on Bronx bus redesign
MTA wants you to give your two cents on the Bronx bus network redesign at one last virtual meeting next month. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is moving ahead with its proposal to overhaul...
View ArticleMad as hell and not going to take the shot: Hundreds march against NYC...
They won't do what the mayor tells them, or what the experts have strongly encouraged — or what millions of New Yorkers have already done. Hundreds of firefighters and others against the city's...
View ArticleEx-Governor Cuomo faces sex crime charges for groping former aide
Sex crime charges have been filed against ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo Thursday, according to upstate officials. A complaint filed on Oct. 28 by the Albany County Sheriff's Office accuses Cuomo of...
View ArticleLess than half of New York students sat for state English and math tests this...
Due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, only four out of 10 elementary and middle school-aged children in New York took state math or English assessments this past spring. As a result, the state will...
View ArticleConstruction starts on long-awaited Fresh Creek storm resiliency project
A long-festering Canarsie resiliency project is finally underway, aiming to protect the waterfront community from severe flooding and sewage backup in the event of a severe storm nearly nine years...
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