This week: Brooklyn Democrats’ Rules Change Goes Back to Court; Good Government Groups Affirm Commitment to Election Integrity; State Board of Elections Adopts Rules for Ballot Drop Boxes; N.Y.C.
The Dime, a 2020-built residential development in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has found a new owner for its office and retail space, which includes the entire landmarked Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburg.
As they sought to address hunger during the Jewish High Holy Days, city officials and community leaders cut the ribbon on a new kosher food pantry and delivered food to families preparing for the holidays.
Two extremely troubling recent headlines underscored the mounting challenges in addressing New York City’s affordable housing crisis: Rents hit a record high while the number of vacancies in denser boroughs plummeted.
Clipper Equity’s hopes have been realized in the sale of a luxury rental building at 130 Hope Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Commercial Observer has learned.
This week, a look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focuses on homes in Prospect Park South, Bed Stuy, Clinton Hill, and Flatlands.
This three-bedroom, three-bath duplex brings the outdoors in with huge windows and landscaped terraces on three sides.
At least nine people were injured in stabbings and shootings related to J’Ouvert and West Indian Day celebrations in Brooklyn on Monday, authorities said.
Editor’s note: Roger Caiazza is an adjunct fellow at the Empire Center.
by Adam Daly, amNY New York City plans to incorporate a racial equity review into future budget planning under its first citywide racial equity plan, released last week by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration.
Twenty-five years later, Gina Ruberto remembers 9/11 through two very different images.
New York City will make more than 170,000 pages of Sept.
"It's not a how-to guide, but hopefully by the end of it, people will walk away feeling like they know what they're up against, and they're ready to keep fighting," said housing activist Sam Stein, who spoke to City…
Nearly 80 public water systems across the state — from Long Island to the Adirondacks — are tainted by toxins over state limits, our analysis found.
Mayor Mamdani's bike lane projects keep running into the same foe: a retirement-aged Manhattan lawyer and convicted securities fraudster who has sued NYC DOT five times in three boroughs, to little success.
We're back with an epic "ICYMI" list, except the "Y" is a "W" and it stands for we.
Summer vacations are winding down with the last hurrah of the Labor Day weekend and students are headed into another school year.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is marking Labor Day by announcing a new City Hall office aimed at helping New Yorkers organize at work, while directing several city agencies to more aggressively pursue labor violations —…
Workers without unions will soon be able to leverage the resources of City Hall to help organize and have a voice on the job.
The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include a Bay Ridge co-op, a Crown Heights condo, and a Bed Stuy row house.
Brooklyn detectives continue to seek the suspect who stabbed a man to death in front of a home on Friday afternoon.
Massive Change Coming to Arrow Linen Block Under New Developer Park Slope and Windsor Terrace residents who fought for a deeply affordable redevelopment of the former Arrow Linen site in scale with their low-lying row…
The identity of the mystery buyer of the former Rite Aid site in Carroll Gardens has been revealed, thanks to the sale hitting public records this week.
New York City will end Monday’s West Indian Day Parade promptly on Labor Day Monday afternoon — a cutoff officials say is aimed at preventing the late-day gun violence that marred last year’s celebration.
Members of the Van Nest community clashed with their local community board Thursday over its support for a bill that would designate an area of Little Yemen as a Yemeni cultural district.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration said Friday it took corrective action after learning that disappearing messages had been enabled in a Signal chat used by City Hall to communicate with social media influencers, a…
The families of two people who died in NYPD custody last summer sued the city Thursday over its failure to respond to their Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests for details about what happened during their final…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s chief counsel said Friday that he took “immediate corrective action” after learning a City Hall communications staffer set some chats on an encrypted app to “auto-delete” official messages.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Friday that his administration plans to modernize New York City’s nearly two-decade-old framework for keeping government running during emergencies and formally designate Sept.
"Lasting change depends on the shared understanding that water safety is essential infrastructure and our shared responsibility—not just for one season, but year-round."