Renee Campion, New York City’s longtime labor commissioner and a veteran of more than two decades at the agency that negotiates with the city’s municipal unions, will retire Dec.
by Kirstyn Brendlen, Brooklyn Paper Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new plan to fix up and extend the life of the city-owned section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has drawn mixed reactions in Brooklyn Heights.
A group of advocates and elected officials is calling on the Mamdani administration to ensure private businesses that own public spaces in the city follow legal regulations and give all New Yorkers proper access to them.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is still confident New York City’s new tax on high-value second homes will generate about $500 million a year, even as the city has begun clearing thousands of properties that were initially flagged…
City Council Speaker Julie Menin is urging Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration to revisit age verification for Citi Bike riders, arguing the city should be able to enforce the bike-share program’s minimum age without…
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by Ethan Stark-Miller, amNY, and Cate Corcoran, Brownstoner Could Zohran Mamdani be the mayor who finally manages to fix the beleaguered Brooklyn-Queens Expressway’s triple cantilever on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront?
A Manhattan federal judge ruled the Trump administration was not allowed to implement a blanket ban on issuing visas to people from 75 countries, striking down a policy that left thousands of people from 40% of the…
Fresh off a week away upstate that he described as “very restorative,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani returned Monday with a plan to give New York City’s parks a little renewal of their own.
A recently formed association of ethnic grocery store owners and business groups sued the city Monday to block the implementation of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-run grocery store plan.